Both a suspected member of a criminal group as well as Bulgaria State Prosecutor’s Office have launched attacks against investigative journalists who exposed how a suspected drug dealer had bribed police officials and how he was controlling the import of food at a border crossing.

Cyberware criminals, drug traffickers, and even hostile state actors can abuse decentralized finance services (DeFi) to transfer and launder their ill-gotten gains through the U.S. without allerting financial authorities, the U.S. Department of the Treasury warned in its latest assessment.

A U.S. court has sentenced five people to prison and ordered them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in restitution for their involvement in a massive biofuel tax fraud that deprived the government funds of US$1 billion, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

A court in Uganda has charged government minister Mary Goretti Kitutu with four counts related to the theft of 14,500 metal roofing sheets that were supposed to be distributed to the poor but ended up in the hands of the minister’s family members and senior government officials.

Venezuela's chief prosecutor has said that his office has requested the police to search 142 locations nationwide and arrest 67 people in an anti-corruption operation that is targeting businessmen and officials at the state-owned petroleum company, PDVSA.

Authorities from 17 countries detained around 120 suspects and conducted over 200 searches as they took down one of the biggest darkweb marketplaces that played a major role in facilitating cybercrime attacks around the world – said a press release by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA).

A former president of Haiti’s lower house of parliament was sanctioned Wednesday for his extensive involvement in corruption, the Department of the Treasury said.

Of the 90 million containers that find their way through EU ports every year, law enforcement is able to physically inspect only two percent. This, combined with the criminal’s tricks, makes it almost impossible to detect the enormous amount of illicit goods that enter the continent through ports, according to a new Europol report.

The U.S State Department sanctioned on Wednesday four Georgian judges, accusing them of significant corruption, and banning them and their family members from entering the United States.

Dozens of Armenian citizens acted as proxy directors for a network of companies used by Eastern European oligarchs to move millions of dollars, transfer assets from closed banks abroad, and pay for lobbying services in the United States, according to an investigation by Forensic News and Hetq.