Police in Nicaragua raided the home of President Daniel Ortega’s main challenger and placed her under house arrest on Wednesday, a day after prosecutors brought money laundering charges against her and requested that she be banned from running for or holding public office.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued five individuals for promoting an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange platform and helping it amass more than US$2 billion through a lending program authorities have flagged as a Ponzi scheme.
A court in Kyrgyzstan ordered on Wednesday former Prime Minister Omurbek Babanov to remain in detention for the next two months as part of an investigation into corrupt practices involving the country’s disputed Kumtor gold mine.
Western risk intelligence companies monitoring threatening activity on the internet claim that Hydra, a Russian language site hosted on the Dark Web, is responsible for facilitating some US$1.37 billion worth of drug deals.
A Pakistani TV channel suspended the host of a popular political talk show after he criticized the country’s powerful military for its role in censorship during last week’s protests that were prompted by the latest attack against journalists.
The European Union launched on Tuesday a unique supranational public prosecution office in charge of criminal investigations and prosecutions against the Union’s budget. The long-awaited move comes in time to watch over a nearly two billion euro financial package aimed at helping rebuild a post-COVID-19 Europe.
Dutch police shut down an industrial-sized cocaine lab, seized more than 3.4 million euros (US$4.1 million) in cash and arrested nine suspects during several raids in Rotterdam, law enforcement reported on Friday.
Focusing on romance scams, online sextortion, investment fraud, voice phishing and money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, police in nine Asian countries arrested more than 500 suspects and seized US$83 million, Interpol said on Thursday.
A court in Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced the former head of the country’s Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA BiH) to nine years for his role in a bribery scheme that, according to authorities, deprived the state budget of over US$1 billion over a five-year period.
As the West is considering further sanctions in response to Belarus’ hijacking of a Ryanair flight and the subsequent arrest of a journalist last weekend, President Alexander Lukashenko met on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin in what appeared to be a further sign of Moscow’s support for Minsk.