Human Rights Watch, HRW, has urged Pakistani authorities to implement the order of the Supreme Court and abolish the country’s anti-graft agency’s power to detain government critics. The global advocacy group also asked officials of the National Accountability Bureau, NAB, who are responsible for unlawful arrests and other abuses to be investigated and prosecuted.
In an effort to crack down on the hundreds of millions of dollars that were laundered through the U.S. real estate and business sectors by two former owners of one of Ukraine’s largest banks, authorities announced on Thursday that they intend to seize several of the properties involved in the scandal.
Washington is offering US$10 million for a tip that would help authorities prevent possible cyber interference in November elections.
Prosecutors in Florida accused a former economics minister of Guatemala, of laundering about US$10 million in illegal drug trafficking proceeds and of corruption, a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
Germans prosecutors pressed on Thursday fraud charges against three former board members and a retired senior employee of the automobile manufacturer Audi for being involved in the manipulation of engines to make them appear spewing less harmful pollutants.
As authorities are counting the dead and hospitals are struggling to treat survivors of the massive blast that ripped through Beirut on Tuesday, a mourning population is wondering who is to blame for the disaster in their country that has been engulfed by ruling class corruption and negligence for decades.
Albanian authorities said on Monday that they have seized the assets of a media mogul whose wealth is believed to have come from drug trafficking in Turkey and Italy.
A 30-year-old Moldovan national pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to participation in a transnational cybercrime organization that caused more than half a billion dollars in losses, the US Department of Justice said on Friday.
Authorities in Mexico have detained the leader of one of the country’s powerful criminal syndicates after he made threats against the government following the arrest of several of his family members last month.
A total of 212 land and environmental defenders were murdered in 2019 – an average of more than four killed per week – international NGO Global Witness revealed on Wednesday, adding that the total represents the highest annual number ever recorded worldwide.