The United States has charged former President Donald Trump’s close friend and ally Tom Barrack and two others on seven counts for “acting and conspiring to act as agents of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)” without notifying U.S. authorities, a Justice Department statement said Tuesday.

China denied on Tuesday allegations made by Western powers that Chinese state-backed actors were orchestrating malicious cyber activity, including cyber attacks such as the one against Microsoft that took place in early 2021 and affected a quarter of a million servers worldwide.

A whistleblower, who exposed corruption unfolding beneath the surface of a global oil company, touched down in his hometown of Southampton on Tuesday after being detained in Croatia for over a year on an Interpol Red Notice issued after the company sued him.

A British national was extradited to the United States on Tuesday and charged for his role in the decades-long smuggling operation of Subhash Kapoor, a New York art dealer who specialized in looted antiquities from Central and Southeast Asia. 

Portuguese authorities extradited two men suspected of being high-ranking members of one of the two Montenegrin criminal gangs, Montenegro’s Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

Hezbollah has jumped in league with drug trafficking groups operating in South America’s “Tri-Border Area,” a lawless region which bridges the frontiers of Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, a new report by the Israeli think-tank, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Research (BESA). 

Israel’s government is setting up a task force to decide whether the country’s policy on cyber exports is in need of an overhaul. The move comes after revelations from an international media investigation into Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group, Axios reported on Tuesday.

Police in California arrested on Thursday a Hollywood producer on an indictment that accused him of using his production company to run an international prostitution business and launder the proceeds.

The reverberations from an international media investigation into Israeli spyware firm the NSO Group continue, with Amazon saying it will shut down cloud service infrastructure and accounts linked to the surveillance vendor. As Vice reported Monday, Amazon made the call after a global backlash to the firm’s methods.

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina arrested on Sunday a Montenegrin man internationally wanted for murder and believed to be a member of one of the two most dangerous criminal clans.