Environmental Crimes

Indonesia is failing to enforce its internationally acclaimed moratorium on deforestation, with officials at multiple levels...

Myanmar’s lucrative timber trade continues to be mired in criminality and corruption, including systematic tax evasion worth...

Transnational organised crime has grown exponentially since the early 1990s and is now a key factor exacerbating many of the...

Experts have warned that Romania’s new system for monitoring illegal logging in the country ― itself an industry worth US$1...

Colombia is losing billions of dollars every year to the illegal mining and smuggling of gold, according to a report...

An examination of the top companies on the London Stock Exchange revealed “system-wide failure” to incorporate thorough...

Investigators were unaware of Luxembourg firms held by politically powerful people implicated in corruption and crime...

Sukanto Tanoto, who has been called the top driver of deforestation in the world, used companies in Luxembourg to purchase...

Montenegro and Ukraine have spent over a year disputing who is responsible for the mountains of contaminated soil and grit...

Maldivian authorities must take action against those causing environmental destruction to the vulnerable islands and have to...

Jacobus Oma looked sadly at the stockpile of several hundred ancient rosewood logs he had just helped to load onto a...

The world’s most lucrative environmental crime, the illegal timber industry, is valued at more than US$152 billion a year,...