The Paris District Court Thursday acquitted the French television station M6 and Atanas Tchobanov, the editor-in-chief of the website Bivol.bg, of libel and defamation of Ivan Danov, the former Bulgarian Minister of Investment Planning.

Denmark’s biggest bank may have been used to launder US$8.3 billion through its Estonian operations, a new leak of bank data reveals. This more than doubles previously reported estimates and could constitute one of Europe’s largest ever known cases of money laundering.  

A Las Vegas real estate broker was arrested Monday for allegedly helping Mexican and Central American drug cartels to launder criminal profits through Las Vegas real estate and dummy corporations, the US Justice Department announced. 

Thirteen members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have been thrown out of the organization for accepting gifts and bribes from the Azerbaijani government while a 14th can continue to serve, according to a report released by the Rules of Procedure Committee on Friday.

Pakistan’s anti-graft watchdog, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), has approached Interpol about extraditing deposed prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s sons, Hassan and Hussain Nawaz, from London, NAB chief confirmed on Thursday, Pakistan Today reported.

Drug production and markets are expanding to unprecedented levels and an increase in non-medical use of prescription drugs is leading to a worldwide public health crisis, according to a UN report released on Tuesday.

Josephine Iyamu, a nurse from London, was convicted on Thursday of organizing a sex trafficking network that performed voodoo rituals on Nigerian women before bringing them to Europe and forcing them into sex work, National Crime Agency announced.

Two of the suspects in the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia were charged with money laundering on Wednesday, the Times of Malta reported. The brothers claimed to be unemployed, yet lived lavishly with luxury boats and cars.  

The United Arab Emirates are at war with drug traffickers as authorities have seized an unprecedented amount of narcotics and addicts are becoming younger, The National reported Tuesday.

Cash, jewelry, purses, watches, and other items worth US$273 million were seized from properties connected to former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak, the Royal Malaysian Police confirmed Tuesday.