U.S. prosecutors accused a former FBI counterintelligence agent and a court interpreter of attempting to have sanctions against Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska lifted, receiving bribes from him in return for investigating a rival oligarch and then laundering the money, the Department of Justicesaid on Monday.

U.S. courts across the country sentenced 69 members of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang to a total of 418 years behind bars and 216 years of supervised release for crimes including drug trafficking and money laundering.

The United States’ law enforcement agencies issued a warning about an “explosion” in incidents of children and teens being tricked into providing explicit photographs online and then extorted for money—a crime known as financialsextortion.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)indicted Monday a woman for allegedly defrauding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) of US$156 million by falsely claiming to have provided 30 million meals to Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in 2017.

A Russian businessman whose affairs were the subject of a recent OCCRP investigation was shot and badly injured in a parking lot in a small town in Quebec, Canada, on Friday afternoon.

A sex trafficker and pedophile who exploited dozens of vulnerable women and girls, endangered their health, and coerced them into having sex with him, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. federal court to 60 years in prison.

A former Puerto Rico legislator was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for engaging in a multi-year bribery and kickback scheme,announced the U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday.

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.

American law enforcement agencies have rescued more than 200 human trafficking victims across the country, including 84 children who were trafficked for sex, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Members of the successor organization to the OneCoin group are attempting damage control after the FBI added one of the scam’s founders to its most wanted list.

An internationally recognized Mexican scientist who pleaded guilty to acting as an unregistered agent for the Russian government and spying on an FBI informant in the Miami area,was sentenced Tuesday to four years in a U.S. prison.

Ransomware attacks, business e-mail compromise and criminal use of cryptocurrency were last year on the rise in the United States and exposed the dangers malign cyber actors pose to individuals, companies, banks, and governments.

After the FBI raided his Washington D.C. and New York homes last week, a Russian oligarch whom the U.S. Treasury’s blacklisted for supporting President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine and Syria as well as the destabilization of Western democracies, lashed out at Washington, accusing it of treating Russia as a boogeyman and scapegoat.

A Canadian citizen who allegedly gave voice to the media and propaganda efforts of the Islamic State (ISIS) was charged by U.S. federal prosecutors on Saturday for conspiring to support the terrorist organization’s crimes against humanity.

Authorities in the United Kingdom warned on Wednesday of scammers posing as County Court bailiffs who are sending emails attempting to force businesses and householders to make quick payments. In the U.S., meanwhile, officials report an increase of ransomware attacks.

Although the FBI is trying to discourage ransomware payments to hacking groups, global meat supplier JBS said it paid US$11 million in Bitcoin in response to the May 30 REvil cyberattack which shut down the company’s North American and Australian systems.

Police in 16 countries arrested over 800 suspects who have used an encrypted messaging platform to discuss their illegal activities, not knowing that the app was secretly run by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations.

Croatian police confiscated nearly 600 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a shipment of bananas that arrived from South America to the Adriatic port of Ploče. Officials say that with increased controls in ports in Western and Northern Europe, organized crime seems to be looking for alternative routs in the south of the continent.

Sixteen years ago, Azerbaijani investigative journalist Elmar Huseynov was gunned down in the stairwell of his Baku apartment building. Newly unearthed documents point to a trail of obfuscations and missteps in the official investigation.

Instead of a great opportunity to express love, care or passion to someone, Valentine’s Day may lead to “heartbreak, embarrassment, and financial loss,” theFBI stressed on the eve of the popular holiday of love.