Italian authorities arrested 103 suspects in a sweeping anti-Mafia operation carried out last week across the country, the Italian state-run news service, ANSA reported.

Amid a rising demand for online services in Africa, the continent has become particularly vulnerable to a variety of cyberthreats, since about 90% of African businesses are operating without adequate cybersecurity measures, an Interpol report warned.

A Lebanese MP and two businessmen were sanctioned by the U.S. on Thursday for their alleged involvement in corruption that has contributed to the “breakdown of the rule of law” in Lebanon. 

A U.S. court sentenced the kingpin of an international money laundering network to 15 years in prison for his role in laundering at least US$30 million in illicit drug proceeds on behalf of transnational drug trafficking organizations.

A French court sentenced last week two Iranian nationals with residence in the U.K. to years-long prison terms for smuggling over 250 migrants, the National Crime Agency (NCA) reported.

U.S. courts last week indicted three Colombians and two Venezuelans for laundering US$1.6 billion in bribes allegedly paid to Venezuelan officials in exchange for contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed in a statement.

Colombian authorities said they captured over the weekend one of the country’s most wanted criminals, the 50-years-old leader of an organization known for having sent tons of cocaine to Central America and the United States and whom the Colombian president compared with Pablo Escobar.

Two men from Eastern Europe pleaded guilty in a U.S. court and were sent behind bars for providing what they called “bulletproof hosting” services for cyber criminals, the DoJ revealed in a statement last week.

Jordan, Turkey and Mali were categorized last week as “Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring,” or countries that have to work on removing strategic deficiencies in their systems to counter money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing, a global finance watchdog said.

After the FBI raided his Washington D.C. and New York homes last week, a Russian oligarch whom the U.S. Treasury’s blacklisted for supporting President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine and Syria as well as the destabilization of Western democracies, lashed out at Washington, accusing it of treating Russia as a boogeyman and scapegoat.