Italian Mafia groups, particularly ‘Ndrangheta, the country’s strongest and most powerful criminal syndicate, are growing more and more attuned to modern tools like cryptocurrency and the deep web, the Italian Anti-Mafia Directorate (DIA) said in their latest report covering the first half of 2020. 

An international media watchdog urged Myanmar authorities on Monday to promptly free two journalists working for foreign media and dismiss all charges against them.

The U.S. and the U.K. levied sanctions on Friday against nine Russian individuals and two entities, in response to the poisoning of anti-corruption activist and Kremlin critic Aleksei Navalny.

A suspected mafia boss and one of Italy’s most wanted fugitives since 2016 was arrested in Dubai after spending years on the run from the Italian police, authorities announced last week.

Financial institutions around the world paid in the first two quarters of this year more than US$937 million in penalties for breaching anti-money laundering procedures, the Dublin-based fintech company Fenergo reported.

Religious proscriptions against internet usage in Turkmenistan, Spain’s drug-smuggling grandmother, and beef between a trio of Swedish rappers that saw one of them kidnapped -- welcome to OCCRP’s oddities section, your irregular roundup of all things weird and criminal.

A man in Ohio pled guilty on Wednesday to laundering over US$300 million in bitcoin through his cryptocurrency service accessible on the Darknet.

Hong Kong will include illegal wildlife trafficking in its Organized and Serious Crime Ordinance, following a Legislative Council vote on Wednesday.

Spanish authorities arrested a renowned Irish crime figure suspected of having killed a rival gang member in Dublin in 2016.

The office of the Maltese Attorney General charged on Wednesday casino mogul Yorgen Fenech with the 2017 murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who was  uncovering corruption in Malta.