Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a Vatican official, has been arrested on allegations of fraud and corruption in connection with an ongoing Vatican Bank scandal.

A Vietnamese man and woman who refused to disclose any information about the $47 million worth of heroin and methamphetamine they were found with have each been sentenced to 18 years in jail

Reporters from the Center for Investigative Reporting in Sarajevo (CIN), an OCCRP partner, won the award for Best Reported Corruption Story given by ACCOUNT (Bosnia’s Legal Anti-Corruption Network).

Marc Rich, oil trader and infamous white-collar criminal, died at 78 Wednesday in Lucerne, Switzerland, after a stroke.

The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and other federal agencies have executed more than 150 arrest warrants and 375 search warrants in 35 states, 49 cities and five countries, in what officials describe as the largest ever crackdown on synthetic drugs.

A bank accused of laundering money for Hezbollah agreed to pay $102 million in a settlement with the US government.

The number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) that member states reported to the UN Office of Drugs and Crime rose from 166 in 2009 to 251 last week.

Africa is emerging as a transit continent for trafficking and the production of drugs.

The market for designer drugs is growing and diversifying, according to the UNODC's annual World Drug Report.

Italian police raided the headquarters of about 40 football clubs as part of an investigation into tax evasion and money laundering.