The Organization for Security and Cooperation, OSCE, expressed on Saturday serious concern over Azerbaijan’s continuous harassment of investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova and called for the intimidations to end.
Sicilian police seized gas industry companies, real estate, cars and cash in Italy, Spain and Andorra as part of a crackdown on money laundering operations by the infamous Corleonesi mafia clan, Palermo prosecutors said Friday.
West Africa is facing increased trafficking in opioids, cocaine and methamphetamine, the profits of which often go to armed terrorist groups, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported Wednesday.
Officers from 11 South and Central American countries worked together to arrest 49 alleged people smugglers, Interpol announced Tuesday.
A United States judge ordered a convicted sex trafficker to pay his teenage victim nearly half a million dollars—the largest sum ever decreed under the district’s trafficking restitution statute.
Police in Spain recovered hundreds of looted archaeological items, including a prehistoric ax mold and a medieval seal, that were stolen from sites in the Tietar Valley more than three decades ago, authorities announced Wednesday.
Despite a robust legal framework and a wide range of national anti-corruption mechanisms, authorities in Albania have not effectively cracked down on money laundering, the Council of Europe said in a report published Monday.
A former business partner of resigned US National Security Adviser Michael Flynn illegally acted as an agent of the Turkish government, according to a grand jury indictment unsealed on Monday.
For the third consecutive year, more than 250 journalists worldwide are imprisoned in retaliation for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its annual survey released last week.
The Attorney General of Malaysia filed criminal charges on Monday against three former Goldman Sachs employees and a 1Malaysia Development Bhd worker for arranging false bonds to misappropriate US$2.7 billion.