Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, which enters its second year, has so far claimed the lives of over 8,000 Ukrainian people, including nearly a dozen journalists.

A U.S. federal court found Mexico’s former secretary of public security and the country’s top cop in its fight against organized crime guilty of accepting millions in bribes from the very cartels he was tasked with dismantling.

India’s largest news agency, Asian News International (ANI), routinely bases its articles on information from dubious think tanks and authors who appear to not exist, according to a report released today by the Brussels-based non-profit EU DisinfoLab.

Brazilian authorities have clamped down on a network that “laundered” tonnes of illegally extracted gold from the Amazon region using fake invoices and then sending it to New York, Dubai and elsewhere, Brazil’s Federal Police said.

An embattled member of the Bangladesh Parliament has filed a lawsuit demanding US$52 million in damages from an attorney who was seeking an investigation into the lawmaker’s suspected financial irregularities first reported by OCCRP in January.

Hackers stole US$3.8 billion worth of cryptocurrency last year, surpassing the $3.3 billion record registered in 2021 despite a dramatic fall in the crypto market’s value, according to a new report by blockchain analysis firm Chainanalysis. North Korean hackers stole most of it.

Polish and Belarusian authorities detained over a dozen suspects believed to be part of a large-scale tobacco smuggling network operating between the two countries and potentially throughout the European continent.

On the fifth anniversary of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová, a Slovak investigative center named after him has launched on Monday an initiative to enhance journalists’ safety, which is identified as one of Slovakia’s most pressing issues.

After Indian tax authorities concluded what they called “surveys” of the BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai last week, journalists and activists are wondering whether it is still possible to speak out in India and call things for what they are.

Law enforcement agencies across Europe dismantled a Franco-Israeli crime network that specialized in impersonating high ranking personnel in various companies and use their authority to have more than 38 million euros (US$40.6 million) transferred to their own bank accounts.