Police arrested 162 suspects of document fraud, human trafficking and smuggling, and identified 476 victims of sexual exploitation and forced begging during a nine-day-long operation throughout Europe, Europol announced Friday.
A special commission of the Russian Duma called last week for measures against a number of foreign media for violating the Russian election laws, alleging that some of them were spies, the Commission said in a report.
Lebanon’s coalition government approved a series of economic reforms Monday, after the country’s prime minister caved to pressure by anti-corruption protesters.
Azerbaijani police detained dozens of protesters during unauthorised rallies against corruption, low salaries and lack of democracy, held on Saturday. The crowd in Baku was also demanding fair and independent elections.
Swiss federal prosecutors have ordered the Geneva-based trading company Gunvor to pay almost CHF94 million (US$ 95.1 million) after finding it guilty of corruption in Ivory Coast and Congo, the Swiss Attorney General’s Office announced on Thursday.
Governments are failing to tackle international money laundering and tax fraud because police don’t have the tools to track down the owners of companies suspected of criminal activity, Transparency International (TI) said in its Thursday report about company ownership.
Police in 12 countries arrested 338 suspected members of the world’s largest child pornography distribution and consumption network that was run by a 23-year-old South Korean man and funded by cryptocurrency, according to a US Department of Justice press release from Wednesday.
Colleagues and human rights activists marked on Wednesday the second anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative reporter Daphne Caruana Galizia, criticizing the island’s press freedom climate and obstructionism.
Netflix filed on Thursday morning an objection to a defamation lawsuit from the real-life subjects of its upcoming comedy The Laundromat, calling the case “an eleventh hour gag order against constitutionally protected speech” and insisting the film — which is inspired by the Panama Papers leak — is not the reason their professional reputations have been injured.