Authorities in Australia over the weekend announced a series of victories in three separate investigations, including the detention of alleged Chinese drug lord Tse Chi Lop in Amsterdam.
During its last week in office, the Trump administration effectively suspended sanctions imposed against controversial Israeli mining tycoon Dan Gertler, who allegedly made a fortune from corrupt deals in Congo, according to the anti-corruption group The Sentry, citing leaked documents.
Human Rights Watch condemned what it described as Russia’s repression against sympathizers of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on Monday, saying police had violently beaten, kicked and injured protesters who had taken to the streets on Saturday in support of the jailed opposition leader.
Pirates killed one and kidnapped 15 crew members of a Turkish cargo ship on Saturday in the latest attack on vessels sailing off the coast of West Africa -- the most dangerous region in the world for piracy.
Mexican authorities have over the weekend warned citizens of unauthorized COVID-19 vaccines that are being illegally advertised and sold online. Such vaccines are of dubious origin and can be harmful, they said.
Balkan arms smugglers are supplying Sweden’s criminal groups with assault rifles, Serbian pistols and Yugoslav-era hand grenades, fuelling the country’s rising gang violence, according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
The European Union’s agency for law enforcement cooperation between member states has determined a ‘working relationship’ with a new, independent body set up to investigate and prosecute sophisticated cross-border financial crime.
Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz was sentenced to five years in jail on Friday for bribery and ordered to pay a 50 million Swiss francs (US$56 million) fine.
Theodore Gyi, a cameraman who shot more than 120 pornographic videos for the websites GirlsDoPorn and GirlsDoToys, has plead guilty to conspiring to commit sex trafficking, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced in a statement Thursday.
U.K. law enforcement arrested 4,760 people for suspected online child sexual abuse, including 320 high-risk sex offenders, during the first Covid-19 lockdown between April and September 2020, according to the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) on Friday.