The traditional Chinese medicine industry has long been one of the major drivers of poaching and the illegal wildlife trade in Africa, but according to a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency, its markets are getting closer and closer to its sources and Beijing may be to blame.

A former manager at the railway equipment company Bombardier Transportation in Sweden denied on Tuesday charges of paying a US$100 million bribe to win a contract in Azerbaijan.

Spanish authorities arrested on Friday two people alleged to be involved in a human trafficking network that used voodoo rituals to turn Nigerian women into sex slaves.

The U. K. authorities charged a Polish truck driver with smuggling Class A drugs after they found 418 kilograms of cocaine in a cover load of frozen onion rings in his vehicle, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported on Sunday.

Media in Pakistan cited police investigators on Monday saying that an amateur video reporter, who posted videos of Arab dignitaries from the Middle East on illegal hunting trips in Pakistan, was killed two weeks ago while trying to escape from the house of a local lawmaker in the southern port city of Karachi, where he was forcefully kept and tortured.

After the temporary shut down and gutting of Ukraine’s English-language weekly newspaper, its former staffers are hoping to start a new outlet that will have the editorial independence the Kyiv Post had.

Mexican authorities said they arrested a man suspected of illegally intercepting a journalist’s private communications with the infamous Pegasus spyware.

The Biden administration sanctioned Chatex, the second largest crypto wallet and a full-fledged cryptobank, accusing it of laundering the proceeds of ransomware. The move is part of the administration’s to disrupt ransomware actors and their infrastructure and address abuse of the virtual currency ecosystem to launder ransom payments.

Luxembourg’s judicial authorities have joined Switzerland and France to become the third known European country to open a criminal case into Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salame and his assets, a spokesperson has confirmed to OCCRP.

A group of British MPs and peers have called on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to follow in the U.S. government’s footsteps and sanction Israeli spyware firm, NSO group, whose software “Pegasus” has been used by numerous governments around the world to spy on journalists and activists.