The European Union presidency and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on a proposed EU law aimed at expediting and facilitating national authorities' access to financial information. Such access plays a crucial role in financial investigations and efforts to track and seize illicit proceeds.

European law enforcement agencies have arrested 31 individuals in a joint operation across Italy, Belgium, and Germany, targeting an international drug trafficking network allegedly operated by the 'Ndrangheta criminal clan.

Brazilian authorities have dismantled a criminal group responsible for counterfeiting approximately half a ton of money, with a value exceeding US$700,000, according to Federal Police.

Elderly and vulnerable individuals in the United Kingdom have fallen victim to "courier fraud," resulting in a loss of more than 12.6 million pounds (US$15.62 million) in the past year, according to new data published by the City of London Police.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's law enforcement authorities have seized 124 kilograms of cocaine that was concealed in packages of bananas mistakenly delivered to a trade company that had neither ordered the cocaine, nor the bananas.

Seven members of a Russian intelligence-linked influence group were sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for their attempts to destabilize the government of Moldova.

South Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) sanctioned Friday the North Korean state-sponsored cybercrime group “Kimsuky,” whose misdeeds include the theft of satellite technology for the benefit of the Kim Jong-Un regime.

Credit lines to Brazil’s meat producers that are linked to deforestation may be numbered as the country’s banks have agreed to require meatpackers and slaughterhouses to implement environmental monitoring for suppliers who raise cattle in the Amazon region, the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban) announced.

The United Kingdom has extradited two Nigerian nationals to the United States after they pleaded guilty to operating a transnational inheritance fraud scheme that targeted elderly and vulnerable victims there.

Brazil’s top court sentenced Brazilian former President Fernando Collor de Mello to eight years and ten months in prison for “passive corruption and money laundering” linked to the Brazilian fuel retailer during his time as senator.