A defendant tried to make a quick exit from his Tuesday morning corruption trial in Moscow by declaring he did nothing wrong, pulling out a razor and cutting his wrist, The Moscow Times reported.
Authorities at JFK airport arrested a US citizen for fowl play on Sunday after finding 34 competition-bound finches squeezed into hair curlers in his carry-on bag.
French authorities detained former UEFA president Michel Platini on Tuesday as part of an investigation into alleged vote rigging that resulted in the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.
Europol recently assisted European authorities in dismantling two organized crime groups, one smuggling migrants to the UK and the other trafficking Romanian women to France and forcing them into prostitution.
As opposition leader Juan Guaido’s battle to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was making international headlines, some in his interim government were spending aid money on lavish dinners, hotels, nightclubs and shopping trips, according to a PanAm Post investigation published on Friday.
Odebrecht, the Brazilian company that is synonymous with corruption, decided to file for bankruptcy protection on Monday after years of graft scandals and trials involving top Latin American businessmen and politicians.
Mexican avocado growers ran ads in national newspapers on Friday begging the government to help protect their produce from organized crime as it’s sent for export around the world, local media reported.
The sister of former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari was arrested Friday on corruption charges relating to an investigation into fake bank accounts and money laundering, according to the Nation.
Prosecutors on Thursday requested former French mayor of the affluent Paris suburb of Levallois to be put behind bars for seven years and his wife for four, claiming the two were corrupt, evaded taxes and laundered money, according to Le Parisien.
Bimini police announced the arrest of 24 drug and arms traffickers on Saturday as part of a joint operation with US law enforcement.