In a rare case for a Western company, two top executives from Lundin Energy of Sweden were indicted on Thursday for complicity in grave war crimes committed in Sudan between 1999 and 2003, when the Sudanese army allegedly indiscriminately killed civilians to pave way for Lundin’s oil exploration, prosecutors argue.

Chilean legislators voted to impeach President Sebastián Piñera after revelations in the Pandora Papers showed that he had a potential conflict of interest related to the sale of shares in a mining company from his children to a close associate.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested three men connected to the Hells Angels Outlaw Motorcycle Gang and seized firearms and drugs worth over US$2.19 million, AFP reported on Tuesday. 

In a development of NSO Group’s ongoing legal woes, a U.S. appeals court denied on Monday their motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought on against them by WhatsApp for allegedly using its servers to infect 1,400 of its users’ mobile devices with the infamous Pegasus spyware.

Interpol has withdrawn its wanted notice issued at the request of Cyprus against the husband of the whistleblower who provided information to slain Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia about the illegal activities of a bank and suspicious money transfers to the wife of the former Maltese prime minister.

The opaque nature of Mozambique’s illicit artisanal and small-scale mining industry has siphoned millions from the country’s economy, trapped its workers in a perpetual state of poverty, and has become a significant source of government and police corruption, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC) report.

Interpol has issued two wanted notices for suspects believed to be connected to a global malware crime network that attacked Korean companies and U.S. academic institutions by blocking access to their computer files and networks and demanding ransom to unblock them.

U.S authorities in Seattle arrested two men from the Democratic Republic of the Congo for smuggling several small packages of ivory into the country to strike a deal with a buyer to bring over a much larger load. 

Authorities in Germany arrested four people suspected of forming a criminal organization and evading taxes, which is believed to have resulted in 23 million euro (US$26.57 million) in tax loss in Germany, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), said in a statement last week.

The administrator of the infamous Silk Road, which at one time served as the dark web’s largest black market, has been ordered to turn over more than US$660,000 worth of bitcoin last week, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency revealed in a statement.