On his first day in office Sunday, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador proposed a new national guard and a militarized approach to the country’s fight against violent drug crimes.

More than 30 journalists have been murdered worldwide by organized crime groups since the start of 2017, media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) concluded in a report released in Paris on Thursday.

German police raided the offices of Deutsche Bank in the city of Frankfurt on Thursday as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering revealed in the  leak of documents from the offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca, the Guardian reported.

A jury in the US state of Nevada has convicted the former president of a Las Vegas investment company for his role in a US$1.5 billion Ponzi scheme, the country’s Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Police in Kenya helped two of their colleagues escape an arrest for corruption by firing warning shots near anti-graft officers, the country’s anti-corruption agency said on Wednesday.

Authorities in the United States have arrested the brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and charged him with drug trafficking, weapons offenses and lying to federal agents, the country’s Drug Enforcement Administration announced on Monday.

Italian police have captured a senior member of the Camorra organized crime group after a 15-year manhunt, officials announced Tuesday.

A former Venezuelan national treasurer was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday after pleading guilty to receiving over US$1 billion in bribes as part of a currency exchange and money laundering scheme, the United States Department of Justice said.

Italian authorities have seized €1.5 billion ($US 1.7 billion) in assets from the heirs of a late businessman who had allegedly built his wealth on funds provided by Sicily’s notorious Cosa Nostra organized crime group, the country’s Anti-Mafia Investigation Directorate (DIA) announced Saturday.

A former business partner of a United States military contractor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for bribing US Army officials with millions of dollars during the Iraq War, the US Department of Justice announced Monday.