International markets cast another stone at Russia this week in response to the country’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, this time from representatives of France’s healthcare and automotive sectors as they announced the suspension of all Russian-based activities until further notice.

Nestlé will suspend its Russian-based business operations that are not linked to providing infant food or medical and hospital nutrition, the world’s largest food company stated Wednesday after having faced significant public pressure, including calls for boycott of its products.

A Brazilian court has sentenced prominent cattle rustler Ronaldo Bezerra da Silva to 64 years in prison after he was found to have led a gang that stole hundreds of animals and resold them across the country.

The United States sanctioned seven suspected high-ranking members of the Los Huistas, Guatemala’s prominent criminal gang, accusing them of global illicit drug trade and cooperation with Mexico’s deadly Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said.

In an international operation targeting a sex trafficking network which operated in various European vacation destinations, French, Romanian and Spanish police arrested seven suspects and identified 32 victims, Europol said in a press release on Wednesday.

A British court sentenced another member of an international group involved in a human smuggling operation that led to the death of 39 Vietnamese migrants inside a lorry.

A Lebanese judge charged in absentia Central Bank governor Riad Salame with illicit enrichment and money laundering only days after ordering the arrest of his brother on similar charges.

When Slidstvo reporters recently inspected the property of Viktor Medvedchuk, a pro-Russian politician who escaped house arrest four days after the Russian invasion, they found a giant cuboid covered with green camouflage net sitting next to his unfinished mansion.

Spanish police arrested dozens of people suspected of having taken part in a document forging scheme that enabled immigrants to obtain residence permits through family reunification.

Land registry documents show that an Azeri lawmaker purchased two luxury London homes for 26.5 million pounds (US$34.5 million) — even as U.K. authorities were investigating whether some of the money he had transferred to his family’s local bank accounts was linked to money laundering.