A Central African Republic militia leader appeared on Tuesday before a pre-trial chamber of the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, after he was last week handed over by Chad to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

After a three-week-long trial, a federal jury found on Friday four Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members guilty of drug distribution, racketeering, and two attempted murders, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Virginia’s Eastern District.

A Brazilian court found three companies guilty of illegally logging in the Amazon rainforest, fined them US$100,000 each and ordered them to plant 10 hectares with the protected Brazil nut tree, which they were found to have exploited.

A luxurious estate on the French Riviera, Sardinian villas, mansions in London and Paris, and a billion-dollar offshore trust –– these are some of the more than two dozen assets that Russian oligarchs have managed to keep secret until now.

Lebanese authorities arrested on Thursday the brother of the country’s embattled central bank governor on charges of money laundering and illicit enrichment, according to the state-run National News Agency.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), Italian police seized 10 luxury cars and 45 luxury and vintage motorcycles from a man who allegedly smuggled them into the EU, evading the equivalent of US$275,000 in customs duties and VAT.

U.S. authorities in Florida said they arrested 108 suspects, including four employees at Disney, a former judge, and several child predators, during a week-long operation targeting human and sex trafficking.

Armenian authorities said they are investigating whether former President Armen Sarkissian purchased a St. Kitts and Nevis passport a few years before being elected president in a possible violation of Armenian laws.

International art dealers are frustrated with assumptions that the art industry is a marketplace for trafficking, money laundering, and terrorism financing. The art world says there is not much evidence to support such claims and wants a review of policy making.

Russian police released on Tuesday a journalist who a day earlier had jumped into the frame during the live broadcast of a pro-government TV channel’s prime-time news holding a banner that urged viewers not to believe the outlet’s “lies.”