The transport business is often hijacked by organized crime – in particular the highly lucrative vehicle-towing industry – which gangs infiltrate across the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa through violence, intimidation and corruption, the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime warned.

Saudi authorities detained 136 people – both citizens and expatriates in Saudi Arabia – for their alleged involvement in bribery, abuse of power, and forgery, the country’s anti-graft watchdog said on Sunday.

In the latest crackdown on cryptocurrency fraud, China said last week that it rounded up more than 1,100 suspects and dismantled over 170 criminal groups believed to have used virtual currencies to provide money transfer and laundering services for telenetwork scams.

Two individuals implicated in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal were charged on Thursday with engaging in a “back channel lobbying campaign” to influence the Trump administration and the U.S. Justice Department to drop the investigation and “have a Chinese dissident sent back to China.”

Although the FBI is trying to discourage ransomware payments to hacking groups, global meat supplier JBS said it paid US$11 million in Bitcoin in response to the May 30 REvil cyberattack which shut down the company’s North American and Australian systems.

Authorities from four countries shut down an online marketplace where vendors sold more than 80 million stolen login credentials to buyers, who frequently used them to make unauthorized transactions, including wire transfers, the U.S. Justice Department said on Thursday.

A group of U.S. lawmakers intend to introduce three bipartisan bills designed to curb kleptocracy and corruption worldwide. They say their proposals close gaps in existing laws concerning sanctions of corrupt individuals, address abuses to investor visa programs and allow visa bans to be imposed on corrupt individuals.

Russia’s Interior Ministry issued on Friday a warrant against the president of Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), two days after a court delivered a first-instance ruling that declared the Moscow-based non-profit an “extremist” organization.

U.S. authorities repatriated 27 looted antiquities to Cambodia, most of which were confiscated from a Manhattan gallery whose owner was arrested in India.

Just as the legitimate business world has moved its activities online amidst the global coronavirus pandemic, so have Europe's drug traffickers and drug dealers, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction’s (EMCDDA) 2021 report.