Results from an internal investigation launched in 2017 into an alleged cover-up of a £1 billion (US$1.32 bn) fraud scandal dating back over a decade have been delayed again, and likely won’t be revealed until next year, the lead investigator wrote in a statement on Friday. 

The U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said it has secured nearly £1.2 million (US$1.58 million) last week from the Brazilian owner of a luxury apartment in West London, which is believed to have been purchased with money stemming from Latin America’s biggest corruption scandal, Brazil’s Operation Car Wash.

Spanish police arrested 21 suspects and seized 355 animals, dismantling a large-scale wildlife trafficking network that used couriers to smuggle reptiles across borders in personal luggage or even under their clothes, Europol announced in a statement on Thursday.

A Croatian court sentenced on Friday the country’s former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to eight years in prison for syphoning state-owned assets through a private marketing company, keeping some of it for himself and putting the rest into his party’s secret slush fund while he was in office.

The years-long rise in international gold prices has driven a new artisanal gold mining and refining rush in conflict-affected areas in East and Central Africa and has turned the United Arab Emirates into the foremost launderer of such gold, according to a new report from The Sentry.

Political parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina have spent at least 5.9 million convertible mark (US$3.55 million) on campaigning ahead of local elections on Sunday, often misusing public resources, an international watchdog warned on Thursday.

The European Union is considering a proposal that calls for communication companies such as Signal and WhatsApp to grant law enforcement and judiciary access to encrypted messages, according to a leaked document from the Council of the European Union.  

An investigation by the European Commission, EC, has found that Amazon illegally used private data from sellers on its platform to determine which of its own rival products it should sell at prices that would weed out its competitors.

Ending a decade-long trial, the Court of Appeal in Belgrade confirmed on Monday the 15-year prison sentence for Serbian drug lord Darko Šarić who headed a gang that smuggled nearly six tonnes of cocaine from South America to Europe.

Law enforcement agencies across the world seized tonnes of protected wildlife and forestry specimens and products, such as ivory, red sandalwood, and turtles, during a month-long Interpol-coordinated operation which saw hundreds of arrests and prompted investigations worldwide.