The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) charged Wednesday three suspected members of a transnational drug trafficking ring linked to a 2022 seizure of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine worth just under CDN$200 million (US$149 million).

Investigators from several European countries have traveled to Lebanon to advance their probes into the country’s Central Bank Governor, Riad Salame, accused of embezzlement and money laundering abroad and at home, OCCRP’s local partner Daraj reported.

The Czech police announced on Tuesday that they have arrested a high-ranking mafia member wanted in the United States for “serious violent crimes.” Media identified the man as a Georgia-born Azeri who was involved in murders and kidnappings.

With the help of colleagues from Turkey and Serbia, Bulgarian authorities carried out a large-scale operation against organized crime groups involved in migrant smuggling throughout the Balkans, Europol reported Tuesday.

Thousands of youngsters are being manipulated by criminals into shifting cash between accounts in exchange for some pocket money, effectively acting as “money mules,” U.K. officials warned.

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam that fleeced more than US$1.6 million from seniors by someone who pretended to be an army general on online dating services, a U.S.attorney’s statement said on Monday.

Another wave of oppression has befallen the Rohingya people as refugees face violence, corruption, and persecution at the hands of Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn), according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Colombia arrested two men who confessed they planned and paid for last year’s murder of an anti-mafia prosecutor because he was investigating their boss and his brother.

A Belarus court opened on Tuesday a trial in absentia of the country’s leading opposition politicians, including Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, who fled the country after she challenged the country’s long-time autocratic president Aleksandr Lukashenko at the 2020 elections.

Australia’s federal police (AFP) announced Saturday its ability to track down alleged criminals by using gold as a forensic tool to lift their fingerprints off of items that would otherwise be impossible to accurately process.