A group of armed men shot on Sunday at a vehicle, severely injuring the Mayor of San Pedro Tapanatepec and killing two other passengers in the latest attack presumed to have been carried out by organized crime against Mexican officials.

Mexican authorities have arrested two people after the murder of a Mexican journalist who has now become the fifth reporter in a month to be killed most likely over his work in what the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) called the deadliest country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere.

Alongside other forms of cybercrime, romance scams have been on the rise since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and have cost Americans more than US$1 billion in 2021 alone, the FBI said in a press release ahead of Valentine’s Day.

In two simultaneous drug busts, Colombian National Police seized more than 3.3 tonnes of cocaine presumed to have been heading to Europe and to the United States.

A Russian investigative journalist has fled the country after being threatened and labeled a terrorist by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, Hetq reported.

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested a man suspected of being a member of a human trafficking group that was smuggling mainly Vietnamese migrants into the country, the agency reported on Wednesday.

The United States introduced visa restrictions against the former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández and included his name into its corruption and undemocratic actors list that now counts 56 individuals.

The infamous Pegasus software that was meant to spy on criminals and terrorist was used by police to snoop on Israeli human rights activists, journalists, mayors, and senior ministry officials, according to recent reports that have provoked outrage across the country.

In the largest financial seizure in its history, the U.S. The Department of Justice (DOJ) took more than US$3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from a Manhattan couple that planned to launder the sum stolen during a 2016 cyber attack.

Eleni Touloupaki, the Greek prosecutor who investigated bribes paid by Swiss pharmaceutical producer Novartis to Greek politicians and healthcare providers, said she has been summoned to appear for questioning at the Greek Supreme Court on Friday as part of a separate criminal investigation launched against her after she was removed from the Novartis case.