U.S. Judge Sentences Former Oil Baron to Five Years for Tax Evasion
A U.S. judge sentenced the former CEO of Gulf Keystone, an oil company whose backroom deals with Iraqi-Kurdish politicians...
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BP Turned a ‘Blind Eye’ to Corruption in Prize Azerbaijan Gas Project
Leaked documents show two Azerbaijan state companies were set to siphon off $1.7 billion from Shah Deniz 2, which feeds the...
Mississippi Pharmacist Jailed in $180 Million Healthcare Fraud Scheme
The federal court in the Southern District of Mississippi sentenced a pharmacist to five years in prison for a...
Third Mexican Journalist Murdered This Year
A Mexican journalist who investigated corruption around the country and had been fearful for her life since 2019 was shot...
INTERPOL Seized Smuggled Ivory, Rhino Horns, Pangolin and Tiger Parts
An eight-week-long global operation codenamed Golden Strike resulted in arrests and seizures across Asia and Africa,...
U.S. and Nigeria Sign Agreement to Stem the Flow of Stolen Artifacts
The U.S. and Nigeria signed an agreement last week to stem the flow of illegally trafficked cultural material out of the...
Four Freeze to Death Trying to Cross US-Canada Border
A baby, a teenager and two adults were discovered frozen to death last week in Canada just meters from the U.S. border,...
Amidst Corruption Probe, Police Raid Maltese Ex-PM’s Home
Maltese police raided on Wednesday the home of former Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat, as part of an ongoing corruption probe...
The U.S. Returns Steinhardt’s Looted Artifacts to Iraq and Libya
The U.S. returned the looted Roman-era “Veiled Head of a Female” and a 7th century B.C. golden bowl and ivory plaque to...
U.S. Bans Mexican Fishing Vessels from Ports in the Gulf of Mexico
Starting next month, the U.S. will ban Mexican fishing vessels from calling in U.S. ports in the Gulf of Mexico over...
U.S.: Artifacts Sold by Pandora Papers Named Looter to be Returned
The U.S. Department of Justice filed for the civil forfeiture of a massive trove of Khmer artifacts looted from Cambodia and...
U.S.: Universal Aryan Brotherhood Member Pleads Guilty to Racketeering
A member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB), an American neo-Nazi white supremacist prison gang, pleaded guilty to...