The U.S. Department of Justice filed for the civil forfeiture of a massive trove of Khmer artifacts looted from Cambodia and trafficked by late antiquities dealer Douglas Latchford who allegedly forged provenance documents and used offshore trusts to sell looted art.

A High Court in Sri Lanka sentenced on Wednesday a top prison official to death over the 2012 brutal execution of 27 inmates that triggered global condemnation.

Iraqi authorities last month issued arrest warrants against 21 high-ranking state officials, including a current minister, following an investigation that has seen 77 other officials summoned, according to a statement released on Wednesday by a commission that investigates corruption.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) indicted on Wednesday 13 people in a healthcare fraud, money laundering, and bribery scheme totalling US$100 million, in what authorities are calling one of the largest no-fault automobile insurance fraud takedowns in history.

The scourge of piracy in the Gulf of Guinea has led to costs upwards of US$1.9 billion a year for the nearly two dozen West African states which line it, according to a recent discussion at the United Nations Security Council.

The Slovak office of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) conducted an operation that targeted four Slovak and Czech companies suspected to have violated the EU tax and customs regulations, damaging the budget for over US$54 million, the EPPO reported on Tuesday.

An American leader of a neo-Nazi group was sentenced on Tuesday to seven years in prison for threatening journalists who worked to expose anti-Semitic activity in the United States.

With the help of Europol, the Spanish National Police dismantled an organized crime network involved in human and drug trafficking as well as property crime, and arrested 24 of its suspected members, the European police agency reported on Monday.

Croatian police reported Tuesday that they have confiscated a record amount of drugs — roughly 62 kilos of cocaine and 220 kilograms of heroin — in the country’s southern port of Ploče in two separate operations in October and November.

Italian authorities uncovered on Monday a conspiracy involving about 50 people who allegedly tried to obtain a COVID-19 vaccination certificate but avoid inoculation with the help of a nurse in Ancona who - on multiple occasions - was caught on camera emptying the syringe containing the vaccine before administering it into the recipient’s arm.