Authorities in Guatemala have detained seven people in raids on 20 properties as part of an investigation into a conspiracy to launder more than US$7 million in drug money.

A 28-years-old Nigerian man from Norman, Oklahoma, pleaded guilty on Monday to helping launder money from a Nigerian-based romance scam which defrauded elderly Americans of millions of dollars, a statement from the Department of Justice said.

European countries last year issued fines totalling 171.3 million euros (US$211 million) for violations of the EU’s framework for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

A court in Cape Verde ruled on Monday that Colombian businessman and Venezuela’s special envoy Alex Saab can be extradited to the United States where he is facing money laundering charges in connection with a bribery scheme allegedly related to President Nicolas Maduro’s government.

Corrupt prison officials and military personnel in Syria are using the systematised extortion of detainees and their families to fund the Assad regime, according to a recent report.

After more than a decade-long push by transparency and anti-corruption advocates to ban the incorporation of anonymous companies, U.S. Congress on Friday passed the measure into law. The move is expected to make it more difficult for criminals and kleptocrats to conceal the origin of their ill-gotten gains.

Through the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act, (NDAA) the U.S. Congress has given the Department of the Treasury one year to establish rules to mitigate the threat of money laundering and terror financing in the antiquities and arts trade.

Prosecutors in Jerusalem on Sunday amended charges against Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, revealing more details about one of the corruption cases against the controversial politician.

Authorities in the United States are pursuing forfeiture of an Ohio property allegedly acquired with funds embezzled from one of Ukraine’s largest banks as part of a multi-billion dollar financial scandal.

James Cahill, an American labor leader who was arrested in October on bribery charges, had extensive connections to organized crime, including the famous Gambino Family, the Westies, an Irish gang that once operated in Manhattan, and Group America, a Serbian drug trafficking gang, prosecutors said.