Last year, nearly 400,000 illegal immigrants crossed into the European Union (EU), continuing a multi-year surge in migration from war-torn and poverty-stricken nations to the south.

Hong Kong Customs reported early this week the seizure of approximately 444 kilograms of suspected liquid cocaine hidden inside boxes of wine and grape juice, a record haul for the anti-smuggling agency.

Casinos and cryptocurrencies have taken East and Southeast Asia by storm as a tool for money laundering and underworld banking, according to a new report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

The Kazakhstani authorities have dismantled the nation’s largest network of illegal online casinos, which operated under the facade of lottery clubs.

A web of corruption between a retired colonel fraudulently elected governor of a region of Colombia with the help of close collaborators in both legal and illegal organizations is shaking the country.

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate (YJS) reported 82 violations against journalists, media workers, and media outlets in 2023, with just over half  attributed to the Yemeni government and its agencies.

A New Jersey man returned to the U.S. from Turkey last week to plead guilty to his part in a nationwide off-road tire Ponzi scheme that defrauded millions from his victims, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio reported.

Police in Fiji said Monday they had seized over three tonnes of crystal methamphetamine in a raid at a warehouse on the western side of the Pacific’s country’s main island.

Kyrgyz authorities ordered the detention of 11 independent journalists and conducted searches of their homes on Tuesday. According to attorney Zamir Zhooshev, the journalists are now held in custody for 48 hours, before the court decides to release them or to extend the detention.

The Ukrainian National Police said on Friday that they had arrested a hacker in the southern city of Mykolaiv in connection with a sophisticated scheme to hijack cloud computers to mine cryptocurrencies, a ploy known as “cryptojacking.”