Anti-Cybercrime Operation Leads to 168 Arrests Across Europe
Police from over 20 states arrested 168 people who allegedly worked as money mules, helping criminals launder millions of euros of dirty money, Europol announced Tuesday.
Police from over 20 states arrested 168 people who allegedly worked as money mules, helping criminals launder millions of euros of dirty money, Europol announced Tuesday.
China is demanding Canada immediately release the chief financial officer of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, who was arrested on unspecified charges in Vancouver Saturday and now faces possible extradition to the United States.
Targeting an Italian mafia organization operating in Italy, South America, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany, authorities arrested on Wednesday 90 people suspected of criminal association, drug trafficking, and money laundering.
Following revelations from the Panama Papers, the US has on Tuesday charged four people with wire fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, and other crimes related to a criminal scheme ran by the Panamanian-based law firm Mossack Fonseca.
In light of recent high-profile scandals at several European banks, the European Council vowed on Tuesday to take further measures against money laundering and terrorist financing in an ongoing effort to crack down on financial fraud.
Italy’s military police descended upon Palermo, Sicily at the break of dawn Tuesday to arrest the alleged leader of Sicily’s notorious Mafia, also known as the Cosa Nostra, ANSA reported.
Police in Michigan broke up a long-running fencing operation that allegedly paid heroin addicts to steal goods ranging from guns and liquor to ceiling fans and energy drinks, Detroit’s local media reported Monday.
Uruguay rejected an asylum request on Monday by Peru’s former president Alan Garcia, who is being investigated in Peru for suspected bribery related to the massive Odebrecht corruption scandal that has rattled many South American countries, Reuters reported.
A San Francisco hacker already serving a record-setting prison sentence has been charged with orchestrating a new scheme to drop contraband into a Louisiana prison yard using a remotely piloted drone, the Daily Beast reported Friday.
Israeli authorities said Sunday there is enough evidence to charge Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, with bribery and fraud, Reuters reported.