Deutsche Bank has flagged suspicious financial transactions in accounts belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the multi-millionaire who was arrested for sex trafficking in New York earlier this month, the New York Times reports. 

The luxury lifestyle of Balkan drug traffickers was cut short on Thursday when police arrested 16 members accused of smuggling cocaine via private planes from South America to Europe and beyond.

Since July 17, Kazakh mobile providers have been urging users, particularly in state capital Nur-Sultan, to install security certificates on their Internet devices without telling them that they would also allow web developers access to people’s private conversations.

A Bosnian court ordered a one-month detention for an Indian businessman and two of his associates on Thursday due to his alleged involvement in financial crimes in the country, according to Balkan Insight. 

South African activists protested outside the German consulate in Cape Town on Thursday in an attempt to hold a German-based company accountable for incompatible locomotives acquired in a deal they claim was dubious and involved bribes.

Football, free ports, and “golden visas” are among the seven new supranational risk areas for money laundering and financial terrorism, according to the European Commission in its latest series of reports on Europe’s anti-money laundering capabilities published Wednesday. 

Police in Hong Kong arrested six people on Monday suspected of having participated in a mob attack against people on the subway the night before.

The United Kingdom generated an additional US$42 billion over the past fiscal year by cracking down on corruption and tax evasion, the country’s tax authority announced last week.

Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans erupted in cheers of joy in the wee hours of the morning Thursday as embattled Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation after having resisted public pressure for weeks.

An ex-Credit Suisse banker admitted last week he took kickbacks in a scheme that saw state-owned companies in Mozambique take US$2 billion in loans which helped drive the country into default on its debt, Reuters reported on Friday.