In just four days, Ecuador seized 3.2 metric tons of cocaine, raising concerns about the country’s growing involvement in transnational drug trafficking and its ability to handle security challenges, Insight Crime reported Wednesday.

Ukrainian police will question the authors of a documentary that suggests an intelligence service agent was nearby when the car bomb that killed journalist Pavel Sheremet was planted.

While Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been criticising the EU and clashing with its values for years, companies owned by his family have been profiting from EU-financed projects, an investigation by OCCRP partner Direkt36 revealed.

The most popular president in Brazilian history, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, was grilled for five hours in court Wednesday by the country’s top anti-corruption judge for his alleged role in the unfolding Petrobras scandal.

A U.K. judge ordered Eurasian Natural Resources Corp. (ENRC) to hand over to criminal investigators documents the company claims are subject to legal privilege, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

Eight more people were charged Tuesday for their role in the embezzlement and money laundering of 17,528 million pesos (US$ 26 million) from Chile’s state police force, the Carabiniers, which brings the total number of those accused in the scandal to 43.

Malaysian authorities on Tuesday charged a former aid to the mayor of the southern city of Melaka with money laundering and criminal breach of trust involving funds worth around RM19.3 million (US$4.4 million), media reported.

Malaysian authorities seized US$ 2.12 million worth of scales from pangolins, the world’s most poached animal, in what officials called Monday the country’s largest ever haul.

Rocco Barbaro, a relevant ‘Ndrangheta boss known as "u’ sparitu" (the disappeared), was caught in his daughter’s flat while fugitive in his hometown Platì, a small village in Calabria. He was having lunch with the family. Platì is a stronghold of ‘Ndrangheta clans, a safe haven for mafiosi.

Washington law enforcement arrested six people suspected of running an organized prostitution ring through Internet ads.