Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz went on trial on Monday in Geneva for allegedly forging documents and bribing the wife of Guinea’s former president in order to secure an iron ore mining concession in the West African country.

Colombia appeared this week determined to crush one of the most powerful criminal organizations operating in the country, arresting 198 suspected members of the Clan del Golfo and extraditing one previously arrested suspect to the United States to face the judge for conspiring to distribute Colombian cocaine there.

Two British citizens were indicted on Thursday over allegations that they swindled over a billion dollars from the Danish treasury in what was described as “cynical and carefully planned fraud,” according to a press release from the Public Prosecutor for Special Economic and International Crime (SØIK).

A federal court in New York has sentenced a Russian hacker to 144 months prison time for his role in one of the largest data theft cases in U.S. history. 

U.K. authorities issued a record £23.8 million (US$31.27 million) fine to a money transfer business for breaching strict regulations aimed at preventing criminals from laundering illicit cash, the U.K. Revenue and Customs (HMRC) department announced Thursday.

The United States has slapped aerospace company Boeing with a US$2.5 billion fine for choosing “profit over candor” by deceiving authorities about software tied to two fatal plane crashes.

U.S. intelligence and security agencies believe that someone from Russia is responsible for recently discovered, ongoing cyber compromises of both government and non-governmental networks, the agencies said Tuesday in a joint statement.

A court in El Salvador found Ex-President Elias Antonio Saca and his wife, Ana Ligia de Saca, guilty of illicit enrichment on Tuesday and ordered them to pay back the US$4.4 million they diverted from state funds to their personal and business accounts.

Although Pakistan last week paid US$28.7 million to a British asset recovery firm it hired nearly two decades ago to find and recover UK-based assets from dozens of Pakistanis, the firm still seeks $3 million in interests and has tried to get hold of London apartments of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif instead.

After officials at the Johannesburg airport arrested three men who tried to smuggle gold bars in their hand luggage, the South African Police Service (SAPS) said Monday that it has launched an investigation into what it believes is an international gold smuggling ring.