On accusations of tax fraud, authorities in Minsk have blocked popular media outlet Tut.by, and have raided their offices, according to the Belarussian Association of Journalists (BAJ), who decried the move in a statement. 

German police said they arrested the fifth and last suspect of the 2019 museum heist in Dresden, which saw members of a family-based criminal group loot royal jewelry said to be worth US$1.2 billion.

Police in 41 countries across Africa and the Middle East arrested 287 people and seized drugs worth some 100 million euros (more than US$122 million) in two operations coordinated by Interpol.

In a series of coordinated raids, law enforcement agencies in five EU countries arrested 22 suspected members of an organized crime group that allegedly deprived the Spanish budget of more than 26.5 million euro (US$32,35 million) by misusing the European Union’s VAT rules.

Four users of the encrypted communications platform EncroChat have been sentenced for drug trafficking in the U.K., following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation stemming from the decoding of messages on the once-secured phone system.

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Sunday that he expects to be charged by anti-corruption prosecutors who are investigating whether he gave false testimony to a parliamentary commission at the time of the so-called “Ibiza affair,” a scandal that led to the collapse of his previous government in 2019.

Migrants rights groups denounced on Friday the decision of a Greek court to sentence a Somali asylum seeker to 146 years in prison for people smuggling because he steered the boat in which he and other illegal migrants tried to cross from Turkey to Greece.

Authorities in Europe have dismantled several investment fraud schemes across the continent and recovered some of the money victims lost. Confiscation of proceeds from crimes is a strategic priority of the European Union, Europol said.

The U.S. Navy said it intercepted in the North Arabian Sea a so-called stateless dhow — a single or double masted sailing ship, bearing no flag to signify it’s nation of origin or registry — but carrying illicit weapons and ammunition enough to supply a not insignificant military force. 

Prisons in North Macedonia are filled with corrupt staff, inmates are persistently being  mistreated and authorities have failed to improve longstanding structural deficiencies within the country’s prison system, a Council of Europe report found.