Brazilian police raided 20 locations throughout the country and seized cash and luxury items from a suspected leader of a transnational cryptocurrency fraud ring that is believed to have stolen nearly US$800 million from investors.

Three of the world’s largest central banks allegedly bought millions of dollars in corporate bonds from agribusinesses heavily linked to illegal deforestation of climate critical forests and land grabs in Brazil, a recent report from Global Witnessrevealed.

Brazil’s indigenous protection agency announced “with regret” the death of the last remaining member of an uncontacted Amazon tribe that was decades ago wiped out by land grabbers. Experts say that despite years-long efforts to protect the indigenous people, the problem persists and got worse since President Jair Bolsonaro came to power.

As the seemingly endless legal case of one alleged key lieutenant drags on, we investigate the gang’s operations and investments in the poorly policed border area between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay.

Prosecutorssaid they charged a Brazilian energy company for building nearly 130 kilometers of power lines through indigenous land in the Brazilian state of Pará to supply more than 140 land grabbers with electricity.

The U.S. has blacklisted Paraguayan former President and multi millionaire businessman Horacio Cartes for his alleged involvement in significant corruption.

Brazilian authorities are doing little to tackle the network of environmental crimes, largely to blame for the degradation and deforestation of the Amazon, a new report finds.

Brazilian Federal Police said they dismantled a criminal group that bribed airport employees to ship cocaine to Europe on commercial flights from the largest airport in Latin America, São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, to Lisbon, Frankfurt or Amsterdam.

Paraguayextradited to the United States a man accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars for drug traffickers and other businesses, the United States Department of Justice said in astatement.Local media has claimed the man was a member of Hezbollah.

Brazilian federal policelaunched an operation last week against a criminal gang that used crypto tokens to launder money from illegally extracted gold, imposing potentially irreversible environmental damages to the northern region of the country where the extraction site was located.

Brazilextradited one of the most prominent leaders of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia, who was on the run for over two decades after an Italian court sentenced him to 30 years for international drug trafficking.

Land grabs and deforestation have devastated Brazil’s northern Pará state. But slaughterhouses, including some owned by top meat processors JBS and Marfrig, still buy from suppliers who source from ranches on stolen land.

Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who was last month murdered in the Amazon along with British journalist Dom Phillips, had found out that municipal officials were involved in illegal fishing and poaching on protected Indigenous land in the Amazon,Brazilian journalists say they were told by sources.

Of all Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia are the worst when it comes to tackling corruption and Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil have again found themselves towards the bottom of the list, a study says.

A London court convicted two former directors of a green investment scheme, finding them guilty of cheating investors out of 37 million British pounds (US$46.54 million) by promoting a Brazilian forestry plan.

At least 23 people were killed during a police raid of a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, where authorities assumed members of a gang called Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, were holding a meeting.

The Swiss commodity trading and mining giant Glencore pleaded guilty on Tuesday to multiple counts of bribery and market manipulation and agreed to pay penalties of up to US$1.1 billion following U.S., U.K. and Brazilian corruption allegations.

A U.S. courtsentenced on Friday two sons of a former president of Panama to three years in prison each for laundering money from bribes given by Brazilian construction companyOdebrecht SA.

Soybean farming, cattle ranching, and land grabs for profit are threatening one of the world’s richest savannas, Brazil’s Cerrado, which many describe as the ‘birthplace of water,’ a recently published binational report revealed.

Tropical rainforests – which are vitally important for carbon storage and biodiversity – are disappearing at a rate of roughly 10 soccer fields a minute, a Global Forest Watch (GFW) report warned.