UN Sanctions Human Traffickers in Libya
The UN Security Council sanctioned six people on Thursday for involvement in human trafficking, a year after CNN footage showing smugglers in Libya auctioning migrants off as slaves sparked worldwide outrage.
The UN Security Council sanctioned six people on Thursday for involvement in human trafficking, a year after CNN footage showing smugglers in Libya auctioning migrants off as slaves sparked worldwide outrage.
A Greek court sent four leaders of an international migrant smuggling ring to jail for 1,400 years after police found and rescued 112 migrants from a cave and farm buildings in southern Crete a year ago, the UK National Crime Agency announced on Wednesday.
Belgian police detained 13 people as part of an international tennis match-fixing investigation on Tuesday.
Leaders of INTERPOL and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reasserted their commitment to jointly combat transnational crime by sharing data, countering foreign terrorists together and fostering inter-regional law enforcement cooperation.
Dozens of Georgian gang members and four mafia bosses with ties to major Caucasus gangs faced charges of being involved in an organized crime group, money laundering and criminal conspiracy on Monday, Le Parisien reported.
A Swiss lawyer will spend two months in jail after telling British and US authorities that his clients, two Russian oil traders, violated sanctions on Iran, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
Pakistani journalist Gul Bukhari, who publicly criticized the military for allegedly interfering in politics, was freed on Wednesday after being abducted several hours earlier, Radio Free Europe reported.
Israeli and French authorities arrested four suspected leaders of a crime group responsible for impersonating executives of companies and ordering employees to wire company money to bank accounts owned by the group, Europol reported Monday.
Two journalists in Ukraine say they are on an alleged Russian hit-list but don’t intend to hide, Reuters reported Monday.
One day after the Pope visited a suburb of Rome to tell its inhabitants to speak up against the mafia, three people were arrested for running an extortion racket, ANSA and Repubblica reported Monday.