Sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov funneled at least US$28 million of his fortune into San Francisco real estate and Silicon Valley startups with the help of a covert network of U.S.-based professionals, according to a new investigation published today.

Spain has issued an arrest warrant for a former senior government official in Albania exposed by OCCRP as the owner of a call center that allegedly defrauded victims around the world by steering them into fake investments.

Thirteen years after Sergei Magnitsky died in a Russian prison, Spanish law enforcement and  Europol confiscated 75 properties in Spain worth roughly 25 million euros (US$26.65 million), allegedly related to the Magnitsky case.

A Pakistani investigative team concluded last week that the killing of veteran Pakistani journalist Arshad Sharif in Nairobi was a “pre-mediated murder” based on several contradictions in the version given by Kenyan authorities.

Tbilisi City Court today again postponed a decision on the request of the imprisoned ex-president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, to suspend his sentence or release him due to health issues.

Danske Bank said Tuesday it has reached a settlement with U.S. and Danish authorities in one of the world’s largest money-laundering scandals, pleading guilty to bank fraud conspiracy and a civil securities fraud and agreeing to pay a total of US$2 billion in fines.

The former head of a New York construction union and 10 others pleaded guilty on Monday to accepting dozens of bribes against the interests of union workers, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Russia’s desire to control the media has spread beyond its borders, as Russia’s media regulator ordered an independent media outlet in Kazakhstan to remove its reporting on the Ukrainian conflict.

In China’s latest crackdown on cryptocurrency fraud, police say they arrested 63 people suspected of helping domestic and foreign criminal groups launder the equivalent of US$1.7 billion through virtual currencies, according to a statement released last weekend.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday charged the CEO of a now-defunct crypto exchange platform with orchestrating a scheme to defraud his investors as well as regular customers of billions of dollars.