A criminal group in Serbia has most likely used an industrial meat grinder to get rid of bodies of its victims, Serbian police and forensic experts said after having detected a number of different human DNA samples on the machine and the walls of the room.

Mexican authorities arrested the mayor of Asunción Nochixtlán, a town some 300 kilometers southeast of Mexico City, and two others believed to be responsible for the disappearance of British-Mexican activist Claudia Uruchurtu Cruz who took part in anti-corruption protests the day she went missing.

A parliamentary ethics commissioner announced on Monday she was investigating who financed U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s luxurious Christmas 2019 vacation with his fiancée on a Caribbean island.

The easing of COVID restrictions may have contributed to the recent rise in smuggling incidents in the Indian Ocean which saw everything from old Soviet arms to African psychotropic plants illegally crossing its waters in March.

Spanish police arrested 17 suspected members of a criminal network that allegedly made about 10 million euro (more than US$12 million) mixing saffron with other herbs and chemicals and selling it as pure, high-quality saffron, Europol said.

For the first time in its history, the Catholic Church beatified a judge, bringing late Sicilian magistrate Rosario Angelo Livatino closer to sainthood more than 30 years after the Sicilian mafia killed him in 1990.

At least 27 people, including a police officer, died in a shootout in northern Rio de Janeiro after security forces entered a favela known to be the headquarters of one of Brazil’s largest criminal groups.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched last week a public consultation on a drafted set of regulations for a future central database on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) in the Europen Union.

Qatari authorities arrested the country’s finance minister whom prosecutors accused of misusing public funds and abusing his office and its power, the state-run news agency reported on Thursday without offering any further details, other than that investigations are ongoing.

Interpol introduced on Thursday a new app that can help law enforcement and the general public fight art and antiquities trafficking, the international police agency said in a statement.