Guatemalan President Otto Perez has approved the extradition to the United States of Waldemar Lorenzana, alias “El Patriarca” (The Patriarch), who was arrested in 2011 on drug trafficking charges.
The Bucharest Court of Appeal Tuesday handed down jail sentences for eight executives and management officials, who were found guilty of tax evasion, and money laundering involving the transfer of football players between international football clubs.
On Tuesday, a bitcoin bank called Flexcoin announced it was shutting down after its entire online inventory worth about US$600,000 was stolen. This follows a much larger theft last week at Mt. Gox, the world's largest marketplace for the digital currency.
Mexican authorities Monday seized at least 119,000 tons of iron ore and 124 heavy machines in the Lázaro Cárdenas port on the coast of Michoacán, allegedly destined to be smuggled to China.
On March 1, 30 masked gunmen in military fatigues broke into the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism in Simferopol, the Crimean region’s capital, reports the Global Investigative Journalism Network (GIJN).
Hairstylist-turned-businessman Carson Yeung, 54, was convicted on Monday after a 50-day trial and faces up to seven years in prison for laundering nearly US$100 million from casinos and gang members.
Aleksei A. Navalny, a blogger and politician who has been publicly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin, was placed under house arrest last Friday with no access to Internet, phone or visitors for two months.
The European Parliament has approved a directive that will make it easier for member states to freeze and confiscate criminal assets across the continent, reports a European Parliament press release .
With 631 votes in favor, 19 against, and 25 abstentions, the series of rules passed as part of a wider EU strategy to combat organized crime.
The Slovenian Prosecutors’ office has indicted Anuška Delić, an OCCRP partner and journalist for the Slovenian newspaper Delo, for allegedly publishing classified secrets.