A Chinese businessman was arrested on Wednesday in New York for allegedly leading a group that cheated thousands of online followers out of over US$1 billion, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized Tuesday its order for Epic Games to pay back US$245 million to its consumers who were tricked by the video game developer into making unwanted purchases.

Ecuador has declared the Argentinian ambassador to the country persona non grata for allowing a former Ecuadorian minister who found refuge at his Residence in Quito after a court sentenced her for corruption to leave the country, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.

A court in the authoritarian West African nation of Togo sentenced on Wednesday two investigative journalists to three years in prison after they discussed on YouTube the alleged involvement of two ministers in corruption.

The days of Olufunmilade Adeyemi as a con artist seemed to have been numbered in 2018 when he was arrested in Ghana and extradited to his native Nigeria to face justice for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in sales of fictitious property in the suburbs of Lagos.

Russian authorities took another step toward stifling media freedom and free speech in general on Tuesday, when lawmakers passed a bill that criminalizes the discrediting and the publishing “false” news about any force fighting for Russia in Ukraine, not only the Russian Army.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been imprisoned for nearly 800 days in one of Russia’s most dreadful prison colonies when a documentary on his poisoning and political activities won the Oscar as an outstanding documentary feature.

Spanish authorities dismantled Tuesday a criminal ring that trafficked poverty-stricken women from Latin America to Europe, forcibly confined them indoors 23 hours per day, and prostituted them to whatever needs their clients demanded of them.

As part of President Joe Biden’s 2024 fiscal budget proposal, roughly half a billion dollars is set to be dedicated towards deterring criminal actors from laundering their ill-gotten gains through the U.S. financial system.

For someone sanctioned for corruption as a public servant during the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Abdulhamid Daibaba made a pretty good comeback.