Contrary to many Hollywood depictions, the main victims of cybercrime are seldom the wealthy and powerful with deep bank accounts ripe to be emptied by clever hackers and digital grifters.

The Pandora Papers revelations have for a second week prompted responses from those exposed by them, and from governments and civil society groups, who have either completely denied, or belittled the findings, or pledged to take action.

An American who was formerly the executive vice president of U.S. operations at a Canadian oil-services company pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiring to fraudulently inflate his company’s reported revenue, resulting in shareholders losing over US$886 million.

A former chief executive officer (CEO) of Braskem S.A., a Brazilian petrochemical company, was sentenced in a New York court on Tuesday to 20 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to use US$250 million of his former company’s money to bribe government officials.

After a wave of murders ripped through Naples, the local archbishop urged members of the Italian city’s native organized criminal group Camorra as well as those involved in corruption to change and become “human beings” again.

Authorities in Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Netherlands and Ukraine teamed up against an organized crime group suspected of binary option fraud and believed to have scammed people of millions of euros, European law enforcement agencies said.

British authorities arrested 24 people suspected to be involved in the trade of fraudulent passports for U.K.-based organized crime groups, either as manufacturers, abettors, a middleman, or as the group’s clientele.

In a series of anti-smuggling operations this past month, customs officials in the Chinese special administrative region of Hong Kong have seized tens of millions of dollars of contraband, surpassing local records.

Since the English Premier League announced their approval of a Saudi Arabian bid to buy Newcastle United Football Club last week, human rights groups and civil society actors have expressed concern over what they see as the kingdom’s attempt to ‘sport wash’ its negative international image and have urged for tighter ownership rules.

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned four Mexican nationals last week, accusing them of trafficking large quantities of fentanyl and other dangerous substances into the United States on behalf of the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), one of Mexico’s most dangerous criminal organizations.