A Moscow court ordered on Monday the foundation of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to pay 88 million Russian rubles (US$1.4 million) to an alleged protege of the Russian President for blaming his company for food poisoning in Moscow schools and kindergartens last year, Kommersant reported.
Thai police have arrested an Australian Hells Angels motorcycle gang member on drug charges, the AP reported Monday.
German police arrested two alleged members of an organized crime group suspected of trafficking Syrians and is looking for six other suspects, four of which are members of a Lebanese family, according to a release from the prosecutor’s office in Trier.
In a coordinated operation, police from seven European countries arrested 18 suspects of money laundering and illegal trade and storage of around 670 tonnes of tobacco, Europol announced on Tuesday.
Police found more than 40 skulls, 70 bones and a fetus in a jar during a raid on a suspected drug trafficking hideout in Mexico City on Saturday. The odd find came a few days after 31 cartel member suspects were arrested.
After finding 39 frozen bodies in a tractor-trailer last week, UK authorities arrested the driver and three other suspects of manslaughter, Essex police announced Monday.
Israeli police launched last week an investigation into senior campaign officials in the ruling Likud party for allegedly harassing a state witness in a corruption case against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Times of Israel reported Sunday.
Nearly 170,000 people joined hands and formed a human chain from the northern to the southern end of Lebanon to show the country is united in its desire to fight corruption and force the government to relinquish power, CNN reported Monday.
Italian police say they arrested 15 suspected members of a group that recycled toxic plastic from greenhouses, sold it to Chinese companies which would send it right back to Italy as shoes.
A Nebraska sheriff’s deputy was indicted for fraud in a scheme that authorities say cost his victims nearly US$11 million, according to a Department of Justice release.