United States federal agents discovered over five dozen live finches stuffed in hair rollers and hidden inside a duffel bag at New York’s John F Kennedy international airport, the country’s Customs and Border Protection agency said in a statement Wednesday.
Authorities arrested on Wednesday 14 alleged members of a transnational gold smuggling ring in Italy, Romania and Turkey for criminal association, money laundering and trafficking stolen goods.
A former congressional staffer who helped a United States representative defraud charitable donors of more than a million dollars over the course of four years was sentenced to 18 months in prison, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Georgian authorities directed French police on Monday to catch 22 members of Eastern European and Central Asian gangs that robbed houses, stole cars, ran a stolen goods ring, created false documents and trafficked drugs across Europe.
The United States Justice Department is backing a whistleblower complaint against a healthcare services provider that allegedly exaggerated patients’ illnesses to inflate reimbursements from the country’s national health insurance program.
Italian authorities arrested on early Tuesday morning one person and searched 25 homes looking for the alleged boss of a major Sicilian mafia clan who is hiding from them for more than two decades.
Weak laws and regulations in Germany allow billions of euros of dirty cash to be funneled into its real estate market, turning the country into a hotbed for money laundering, according to a Transparency International report published on Friday.
Following a series of scandals, ranging from fraud and bribery to illegal betting and doping, more than 100 government ministers, experts, and leaders of international sports organizations met in London on Thursday to affirm a global commitment to tackling corruption in sport.
Federal Police arrested in Buenos Aires an internationally wanted drug trafficking suspect from Poland who had been living in Argentina under a new identity, Interpol stated on Wednesday.
The United States on Wednesday convicted a former Hong Kong official who was backed by a Chinese energy firm of bribery and money laundering, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York.