Brazil's Most Powerful Militia Leader Arrested
The Brazilian Federal Police arrested Sunday a highly sought-after fugitive, who leads a militia that controls one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous zones.
The Brazilian Federal Police arrested Sunday a highly sought-after fugitive, who leads a militia that controls one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous zones.
Australia sentenced three men for importing almost 300 kg of methamphetamine from Hong Kong inside of an excavator, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) reported Tuesday.
British authorities sentenced another member of a travelling child abuse network Wednesday to seven years in prison, after he was caught sexually abusing young boys in Morocco.
The U.S. and Venezuela agreed to a prisoner exchange Wednesday, which saw ten Americans returned to their families in exchange for an ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars from low-income housing projects.
Spanish authorities arrested 19 members of an international criminal syndicate that trafficked tons of urban waste from Europe into Spain over a period of several years, making millions of euros in the process.
The Royal Malaysian Customs Department reported on Monday the seizure of over 800 kilograms of fentanyl at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport Cargo Complex, the country's largest airport.
A Colombian and a Guatemalan national pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to smuggle enormous quantities of cocaine produced by Latin American cartels into the U.S. via semi-submersibles, colloquially known as “narco-subs”.
Illegal sports betting, manipulation of competitions, and the connection between organized crime and sports are the primary drivers of corruption in the sports world, estimated to be worth up to US$1.7 trillion annually, according to the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Police have dismantled a criminal syndicate in Spain and Romania that lured girls with trust, affection, and false promises of a better life to Spain, but upon arrival, trafficked and sexually exploited them, as reported by Europol.
Myanmar has become the world's largest opium producer, surpassing Afghanistan, which reduced its production after the Taliban imposed a ban in April last year, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported on Tuesday.