A major cross-border investigation coordinated by Interpol has resulted in the arrests of 1,333 suspects and seizure of chemicals and drugs worth US$717 million worldwide.

Authorities in Italy and Spain have crushed a sophisticated drug trafficking and money laundering network that is believed to be linked to the infamous Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.

Ecuadorian officials accused two suspects on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the killing of a prosecutor who was investigating cases of violence and drug trafficking in the country.

Spain seized nearly 100 tonnes of drugs last year in international waters around the Iberian peninsula, which has for some time been a key point on the smuggling routes from Latin America and North Africa to Europe, the country’s Interior Minister reported.

Colombian authoritiessaid they arrested ten alleged leaders of “Los Maracuchos” criminal group, who engaged in a series of deaths of rivals and personal vendettas in Bogotá city since early this year, leaving at least 23 bodies inside plastic bags lying on the streets.

Spanish police reported Monday the dismantling of two cocaine processing plants, in an operation that resulted in seven arrests and the seizure of more than 800 kilos of drugs before they could reach the streets.

Kenya extradited the last escaping member of a prominent wildlife trafficking syndicate to the United States, where he is wanted for trafficking huge amounts of ivory and rhino horn, the country’s Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI)said on Sunday.

Agents of the FBI arrested in southern California a Canadian man linked to a transnational drug trafficking organization that has transported more than half a ton of methamphetamine and cocaine via a network of big-rig trucks, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Saturday.

The U.S. Coast Guard intercepted a shipping vessel carrying US$20 million worth of narcotics in the Gulf of Oman, the U.S. Navy informed.

The leader of a Baltimore street gang with multiple murders under his belt pleaded guilty Friday to racketeering and drug conspiracy charges that could see him spend the next 40 years behind bars.

A U.S. federal court found five Latin American drug traffickers guilty on Tuesday for their role in a conspiracy to smuggle as much as 760 kilograms of cocaine into Mexico.

A hitman for a renowned Puerto Rican drug trafficking organization wassentenced to 40 years in prison following his guilty plea to the murder of three people as part of a  racketeering conspiracy, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.

Commercial seaports in South-eastern Europe (SEE) are nodes for cocaine and heroin smuggling and illicit trade. Drug shipments, mainly from Latin America, are frequently found in fresh fruit containers - specifically bananas, says a new report looking at the maritime Balkan routes.

Pedro Luis Martin Olivares is a former Venezuelan intelligence chief wanted in the U.S. for drug trafficking. His family has managed to acquire millions of dollars’ worth of property in Spain.

Ecuador prosecuted eight alleged members of a transnational drug trafficking organization on Friday, in a case where over three tonnes of cocaine were creatively concealed in bottles of tea and within the very walls of the vehicles transporting them.

When Spanish authorities raided the home of a suspected drug trafficker in the Valencian town of Guadasser, they were expecting to find drugs and weapons. Instead they found a trove of archaeological artifacts stretching back to the 12th century which were suspected to looted.

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.

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.

Spanish policesaid they arrested eight suspects and seized for the first time three underwater drones especially designed to carry up to two hundred kilos of drugs.