The European Union is concerned over escalating trends of violence in organized crime groups, according to a new Europol report that cited examples of makeshift torture chambers in the Netherlands, gang wars in Sweden and reported cases of deadly violence in Denmark, Belgium, Italy and Spain.
Russian authorities detained more than 5,400 people who protested on Sunday in some 150 cities across the country, demanding freedom for top Kremlin critic, Alexei Navalny, an independent monitoring group reported on Monday.
The International Biathlon Union has accused its former president, Anders Besseberg, of covering up cheating and blatantly favoring Russian interests after receiving bribes in the form of prostitutes and hunting trips, according to an independent report commissioned by the Union.
A former chairman of state-owned China Huarong Asset Management, Lai Xiaomin has been executed after being found guilty of seeking bribery payments of more than 1.79 billion yuan (US$278 million) over a ten-year period.
El Salvador extradited on Friday the former chief of its football federation to the United States where he is facing racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy charges related to the massive FIFA corruption scandal.
Trying to prevent modern slavery, a Tunisian anti-trafficking body has last week released information cards intending to educate the increased number of human trafficking victims coming from or passing through the country about their rights.
Law enforcement agencies from several countries have dismantled in a coordinated effort one of the most sophisticated and long-lasting cybercrime services used by criminal networks to extort and steal personal data worldwide, Europol said in a statement last week.
The U.S. financial services company Robinhood, which serves as a trading platform for millions of users, is under fire amidst claims that it froze the purchases, and even forced the sale of customers’ stocks that have seen an unprecedented surge in value.
After an Italian operation arrested dozens of alleged ‘Ndrangheta members last week, Albania’s Prime Minister, Edi Rama, said the mafia group had tried to use his country as a money laundering base but without success.
Corrupt practices prevailed in governmental responses to the COVID-19 pandemic last year and have contributed to a continuing crisis of democracy worldwide, Transparency International found while compiling its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) that was released on Thursday.