Reporting analysis or news which has any impact on Tunisia’s economy could result in a jail sentence under a new law Tunisia has just passed. The bill will have a significant effect on freedom of expression in the African country that kicked off the Arab spring just over a decade ago, Amnesty International said in a statement.
In the hunt for Russian-owned superyachts worldwide, British officials have identified and detained one belonging to a Russian national valued at 38 million pounds (US$50 million).
Russian oil and chemical tankers are disabling their on-board automated identification systems (AIS), thereby keeping authorities in the dark as to their whereabouts while at sea. The move is seen as an attempt by Russia to circumvent international sanctions brought about by the country’s invasion of Ukraine last month.
About a month after his arrest, the Honduras Supreme Court ratified the extradition of former President Juan Orlando Hernández Alvarado to the United States where he could face a life sentence if convicted on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
In another step towards closing off all avenues for Russia to sidestep international sanctions in response to the country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine last month, U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order that bars all transactions with the Russian central bank’s gold reserves, valued at roughly US$130 billion.
El Salvador declared a state of emergency on Sunday in order to combat criminal organizations across the country which authorities blame for 73 homicides committed just over the weekend, making it one of the deadliest since the country’s civil war ended in 1992.
At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), Bulgarian authorities conducted 25 searches in three cities and questioned 10 people about companies suspected of having fraudulently obtained EU funds.
Authorities in three European countries have frozen assets worth 120 million euro (US$130 million) in relation to an ongoing money laundering investigation into Lebanon’s Central Bank governor Riad Salame and his entourage, German prosecutors told OCCRP on Tuesday.
Prosecutors charged Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro with illicit enrichment, in a case related to his former maid in Rio de Janeiro who allegedly received a salary as a government employee while he served as a lawmaker in Brasilia.
Ransomware attacks, business e-mail compromise and criminal use of cryptocurrency were last year on the rise in the United States and exposed the dangers malign cyber actors pose to individuals, companies, banks, and governments.