Canada to Fight Laundering of Drug Money through Casinos
British Columbia is going to crack down on large-scale transnational money laundering in its casinos that is tied to the opioid trade.
British Columbia is going to crack down on large-scale transnational money laundering in its casinos that is tied to the opioid trade.
The Supreme Court of Azerbaijan upheld the two-year prison sentence of an anti-corruption blogger who was convicted of libel after alleging police officers beat him and demanded he stop his anti-corruption advocacy, Radio Free Europe reported earlier this week.
The chairman of Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau (NAB) revealed on Monday that the anti-graft watchdog’s headquarters in Islamabad received bomb threats, local media reported.
Following stronger enforcement of laws aimed at combating Japanese organized crime groups, some members of Japan’s Yakuza have resorted to stealing watermelons for income, Japan Today reported Tuesday.
Law enforcement arrested more than 141 individuals across more than 226 airports last week for traveling with criminally acquired airline tickets, Europol reported Tuesday.
Companies that register in Delaware might soon have to identify their owners, as the state is backing federal legislation after a decade of resistance, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The EU is split over whether to start membership talks with Albania and Macedonia as some members seek to greenlight the process while France and The Netherlands want to see the two countries do more about fighting organized crime and corruption before they make the next step on their EU path, Reuters reported Monday.
Organized crime groups are running a criminal system out of prisons in Venezuela and the Maduro administration has only bolstered their power, InSight Crime reported Monday.
Police in Spain have launched a major operation against Armenian organized crime on Tuesday, saying they expect to detain as many as 100 suspects across Spain, EFE reported.
Brazilian radio journalist Jairo Sousa, who frequently reported on corruption and organized crime, was shot dead early Thursday morning as he arrived to work at Radio Perola in the northern Para state, local police reported.