The United States announced Monday that a Russian national who had been living in Hong Kong has been detained and charged with smuggling to Russia dual-use microelectronics with military applications manufactured in the U.S.

Australian authorities said they have detained 990 suspects, charged more than 2,000, and seized 1.2 tonnes of drugs between September 11 and 15 as part of a massive operation against drug trafficking and organized crime in the country.

A U.K. court sentenced two delivery drivers of French nationality to nearly 10 years in prison for hiding a Vietnamese woman and three children inside furniture and smuggling them into the United Kingdom.

A U.S. court convicted a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Nigeria of wire fraud involving a so-called ‘attorney collection scheme’ that left U.S.-based attorneys without US$20 million, the Office of the United States Attorney of the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Monday.

Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina announced they have apprehended two Serbian nationals suspected of being hitmen for a notorious Montenegrin mafia clan.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning on Tuesday regarding violent organized crime groups operating online. These groups employ coercive tactics to compel minors into engaging in acts of self-harm, public suicide, and the creation of explicit content, including child sex abuse material.

The Mexican Navy has announced that it seized more than 45 tonnes of cocaine and methamphetamine in Mexican marine areas, national ports, Mexico City's International Airport, and in states with significant cocaine and methamphetamine production in clandestine laboratories over the past two weeks.

After a five-years-long process, a Philippine court acquitted on Tuesday the news outlet Rappler Holdings Corporation and its CEO, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, of the last tax evasion charge filed by the country's former president Rodrigo Duterte.

After experts discovered that the phone of the co-founder of an exiled Russian media outlet critical of President Vladimir Putin's regime and the war in Ukraine had been infected with Pegasus spyware, a media watchdog called on Thursday for a ban on the production and use of spyware technologies.

U.K. authorities have warned that ransomware remains one of the most serious cyber risks the country is facing and that cybercriminals are increasingly professionalizing their ransomware and extortion assault operations to achieve efficiency and maximize revenues.