A year-long Europol-led investigation led to the arrest of 19 suspects in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and the dismantling of migrant smuggling networks that had been operating for years along the so-called Balkan route.

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted in a U.S. federal court of abusing his office to help drug traffickers ship more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) is implementing a wide range of reforms following OCCRP and 13 media partners’ revelations about its history of scandal, corruption and lax oversight and lending practices.

While synthetic opioids claim tens of thousands of American lives every year, illicit fentanyl and money laundering converge in a shadowy underworld that thrives thanks to enablers exploiting loopholes in U.S. anti-money laundering laws not seen elsewhere in the West.

Amidst a government crackdown on press freedom, a court in Kyrgyzstan is expected to decide this week whether 11 journalists charged with “inciting mass unrest” will remain in pre-trial detention.

Around 100 former Del Monte security guards stood outside the gates of the company’s headquarters in Thika, Kenya on Thursday afternoon. They were extremely angry, having turned up day after day to receive their severance checks.

Long before Tesla’s “tackle anything” steel cybertruck hit the market, enterprising Mexican drug cartels were special-ordering their own monster trucks for illicit purposes.

A new report from European Union (EU) agencies underscores how extreme drug-related violence is straining local communities and society, while also highlighting how corruption is facilitating drug trafficking and undermining the rule of law.

Two British men have been acquitted of bribing senior Saudi officials to secure and retain military communications contracts worth at least £1.6 billion (US$2.04 billion), after arguing the payments had the approval of the U.K.'s Ministry of Defense.

On Wednesday, police in Azerbaijan arrested a dozen journalists and activists amidst the government’s ongoing crackdown on civil society. Seven of those arrested remain in custody a day later.