Last Friday, a grand jury in the U.S. state of Utah indicted 17 people for drug trafficking and money laundering. A comprehensive investigation conducted by various U.S. law enforcement agencies uncovered links with drug traffickers in Mexico known to distribute fentanyl, methamphetamine, and marijuana.

After the Suisse Secrets investigation revealed how Switzerland’s second-largest lender served some shady clients, officials in the West called on Monday for the country to be put on a money-laundering blacklist, while Swiss politicians pledged to review their banking laws and stop criminalising investigative journalism.

Tightening the noose on independent media, the Kyrgyzstan government proposed on Monday a new procedure that would allow the regime to block websites accused by anyone of spreading fake news, even in cases where no evidence is provided.

Whether mashed into guacamole or smeared on toast, avocados, the popular, fatty ‘super food’, almost got a lot more expensive last week, when Washington shut the gates to its largest supplier of the fruit, Mexico, over threats to U.S. health inspectors.

A U.K. court sent four members of a Ghanaian cocaine smuggling group to jail for 28 years for trying to import nearly US$4 million worth of cocaine concealed in their luggage on flights from Ghana to London.

Transparency International expressed concern over reports that Iceland’s police was investigating journalists who reported on the attempts of a number of employees of a seafood company to smear reporters who covered a corruption scandal the company was involved in.

The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland called on Sunday evening for the abolition of a law that prevents journalists from reporting on Swiss bank clients. The appeal came after a group of international reporters published an investigation that showed Credit Suisse had some very dubious customers.

Members of the European Parliament called on the body to end the practice of issuing so-called “golden visas” or citizenship by investment within its member states.

Italian police detained a high-profile surgeon from Palermo and his son over their alleged links to the Sicilian Mafia and attempts to smuggle drugs from South America to Europe with the help of an Albanian man and an Alitalia flight attendant.

Honduran authorities detained on Tuesday the country’s former President Juan Orlando Hernández at the request of the United States, where he is accused of being a member of a violent drug trafficking network.