More than 8,800 law enforcement officers across Europe arrested 166 people in a joint operation against organized and serious international crime originating from South-East Europe (SEE), Europol said in a statement on Wednesday.
The president of Mexico’s tempestuous relationship with the country’s press is putting journalists at risk of serious harm, with death threats being made against individual reporters and publications alike, according to an international press-freedom advocacy group.
Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested the leader of the country’s opposition on charges of corruption, prompting hundreds of his supporters to protest against the latest arrest of a top opponent by the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Brazilian prosecutors again targeted the family of the country’s President Jair Bolsonaro, charging on Monday his son Flávio with embezzlement, money laundering and heading a criminal organization, local O Globo newspaper reported.
The amount of money African countries lose each year to illicit financial flows – $88.6 billion, or 3.7% of its total GDP – “dwarfs” the amount that the continent receives in development aid, a United Nations report published on Monday revealed.
Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted two men over an alleged scheme to kidnap and torture migrants from Cuba so as to extort money from their victims’ families.
The ex-CEO of a world-renowned German car manufacturer will this week become the first of the company’s former executives to stand trial over the Dieselgate emissions-cheating scandal.
Two New York antiquities dealers were arrested for lying for years about the origins of the items they were selling, defrauding this way buyers and brokers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
Gilead Sciences Inc., a California-based pharmaceutical company, is set to pay US$97 million to resolve allegations that it used a charity to pay the Medicare co-pays for one of its own drugs. The company said it had no intention to violate the law and does not believe it did.
While he is recovering in Berlin from a life-threatening poisoning attack with a state-developed nerve agent called Novichok, Russian authorities on Thursday confiscated the Moscow apartment of the country’s top opposition figure Alexei Navalny in order to compensate a businessman close to Vladimir Putin.