Interpol-led Operation Busts Human Smuggling Networks
An Interpol-led operation conducted throughout 32 countries and across four continents resulted in arrests of more than 200...
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U.S. Sanctions Matraimov Under Magnitsky Act
The United States on Wednesday sanctioned a number of corrupt actors and their networks across several countries in Africa...
Complaint: Philip Morris Smuggled Smokes, Distorted Data
A former business partner says that Swiss tobacco giant Philip Morris International facilitated the theft of his...
The Sentry: African Conflict Gold is Being Laundered in Dubai
The years-long rise in international gold prices has driven a new artisanal gold mining and refining rush in...
Interpol’s Global Operation Seizes Tons of Smuggled Wildlife Species
Law enforcement agencies across the world seized tonnes of protected wildlife and forestry specimens and products, such as...
Plunder and Patronage in the Heart of Central Asia
'His Murder Is Necessary': Man Who Exposed Kyrgyz Smuggling Scheme Was Hunted by Contract Killers
A money launderer told journalists what he knew about a secretive smuggling empire and a senior Kyrgyz official who enabled...
U.S. Charges 10 in $50 Million Russian iPhone Smuggling Ring
The U.S. judiciary has charged 10 Russian nationals in a scheme to smuggle mostly stolen iPhones, iPads and Apple watches...
Bosnia Charges 7 Suspects for Smuggling 6.8 Tons of Drugs
Prosecutors in Bosnia and Herzegovina pressed charges against seven people, Bosnian and Croatian nationals, for trafficking...
US Charges Two with Smuggling, Planned Torture of Migrants
Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted two men over an alleged scheme to kidnap and torture migrants from Cuba so as to...
Illegal Gold Smuggling Choking Legitimate Markets in the DRC
A Canadian non-governmental organization urged the Democratic Republic of Congo and its neighbors to crack down on the...
The FinCEN Files
Mystery Company Ties Accused Temple Raiders to Art World Elite
Where in the world is Pantheon Worldwide? Not even its own bank can say.
The FinCEN Files
By Suitcase And By Wire: How Reza Zarrab Smuggled Russia’s Money
Reza Zarrab is best-known for laundering money for Iran. But “The Turkish Gatsby” also secretly moved hundreds of millions...