For almost a year now, police investigators, prosecutors, and intelligence services from nearly a dozen countries have been diligently working to uncover who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that supplied Europe with natural gas from Russia last September.

Two men have pleaded guilty to participating in a transnational tax fraud scheme, in which members of a group of four hacked into computer servers of businesses in the United States, stole personal information of U.S. citizens, and requested income tax refunds.

British authorities charged Tuesday Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former oil minister, with bribery offenses pertaining to multi-million pound oil and gas contracts that she approved for personal gain while still in office.

Former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš apologized to investigative journalist Pavla Holcová for falsely claiming that she was paid to undermine his pre-election campaign.

Saudi border guards have systematically killed hundreds of migrants, including women and children, who were trying to cross the border from Yemen over the past year. If this constitutes a government policy, then these killings are crimes against humanity, as stated by Human Rights Watch on Monday.

The United States has banned three Congolese public officials and their wives from entering the country, claiming that the three had falsified permits to traffic protected species in exchange for bribes.

Authorities in the United States said that 24 individuals have entered guilty pleas for their involvement in a drug trafficking organization operating within prisons from 2013 to 2021. The operation, known as Prison Empire, has been deemed the largest narcotics conspiracy ever documented within South Carolina's court system.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged German and Georgian authorities on Wednesday to investigate the alleged poisoning of two Russian exiled journalists covering Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Spanish authorities said they have dismantled an itinerant criminal group of Italian-Croatian origin involved in a series of fraudulent currency exchange schemes known as "Rip Deal" - a scam in which fraudsters trick victims into exchanging genuine legal tender bills for counterfeit ones.

American authorities blacklisted Wednesday three entities tied to a sanction evasion network that has facilitated arms deals between Russia and North Korea, arms that have been used in support of the Kremlin’s plans to conquer Ukraine.