Croatian authorities seized on Saturday nearly 25 kilograms of cocaine after a police dog sniffed the drugs out during a routine traffic control near the southern coastal city of Ploče. The drugs have an estimated street value of HRK17 million (US$2.5 million), police said.
The United Kingdom’s Financial Reporting Council announced on Wednesday that it would investigate the audits of two “Big Four” accounting firms for their failure to spot the collapse of London Capital & Finance (LC&F), which left over 11,400 investors facing losses of at least £230 million (US$ 285 million).
A bizarre black market business developed in Pakistan as desperate families of critical COVID-19 patients are offering thousands of dollars for blood plasma from recovered patients.
A member of New York’s Genovese crime family was sentenced to four years in prison for extortion and racketeering conspiracies according to a statement from the US Department of Justice.
Masks delivered to Romanian hospitals under a procurement contract that saw corruption charges being raised against the head of a state owned-company do not comply with safety standards, experts told OCCRP on Thursday.
A court in Algeria sentenced on Wednesday 17 former high-ranking officials, including two ex-prime ministers, to years-long jail terms for money laundering, corruption, trading in influence, and pressure on public officials to obtain undue privileges.
Authorities in New Zealand arrested on Tuesday ten alleged leaders of a recently established local chapter of the international motorcycle gang “The Mongols” - a conclusion to a lengthy anti-organized crime operation.
German payment and financial services provider, Wirecard, announced on Thursday that it would file for insolvency just days after its former CEO surrendered to authorities following an arrest warrant they issued against him over a missing 1.9 billion euros (US$ 2.13 billion) the firm claimed probably “do not exist.”
A Cypriot investigative journalist and former presidential advisor said he is fearing for his life after finding significant evidence of surveillance and hacking into his writing, personal messages and home security system.