A Romanian businessman was indicted Monday for defrauding an EU-funded medical research center of more than three million euro (US$2.9 million) with the help of an accomplice who represented the company mandated with providing the center its equipment, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) announced Monday.

An American rancher was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison for defrauding two meat processing companies of over US$244 million by raising 265,000 bovines for them that never in fact existed.

U.S. authorities designated on Monday Fadil Novalić, the prime minister of one of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s two semi-autonomous regions, for his alleged involvement in corruption, as well as “divisive and destabilizing activities in the Western Balkans.”

Malaysian authorities have brought home 15 victims of a suspected cybercrime scheme, who had been lured into Cambodia by lucrative yet phony job offers, the country’s foreign ministrysaid.

The U.K. government introduced a new bill to block kleptocrats and criminals’ dirty money from flowing freely through its economy by cracking down on fraud and money laundering.

U.S. authoritiescharged five members of a Queens-based construction company Wednesday for their alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud New York City of US$12 million intended for homeless shelter renovations.

A Honduran court sentenced the country’s former first lady on Wednesday to over 14 years in prison and fined her 13,812,848 lempiras (US$558,232) for fraud and misappropriation against the state.

U.S. authorities charged 47 people on Tuesday for their alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud US$250 million from a federally-funded program designed to feed impoverished children during the pandemic.

At the request of Ankara, Albanian police arrested the founder of what was once one of Turkey’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges that turned out to be one of the largest scams in the country’s economic history, the Turkish Interior Ministryannounced Tuesday.

A court in Zagreb ordered on Monday five people who were arrested over the weekend to remain in detention on suspicion of defrauding Croatia’s main oil and gas company INA of more than a billion Croatian kunas (US$133 million) by reselling the company’s gas abroad for 10 times the purchase price and keeping the difference for themselves.

Inna Yashchyshyn, a self-confessed grifter linked to a fraudulent charity, posed as a member of one of the world’s most famous banking families, gained access to Donald Trump’s Florida home, and mingled with top Republicans.

Just as a leech draws blood from its host, senior executives at Iran’s largest steel company sucked the country’s mining sector for all they could in a multi-billion dollar corruption scandal that tied them to widespread fraud, bribery, and money laundering.

A retired San Diego vice squad officer has been indicted for running a prostitution ring out of a handful of massage parlors in California and Arizona, and laundering the profits.

A U.K. courtsentenced the ringleader of a criminal network to nine years in prison for smuggling vacuum packed wads of dirty cash to Dubai, in what was one of Britain’s biggest money laundering conspiracies to date.

Spanish authorities, together with Romanian police and Europol, shut down Monday an online international scam operation that defrauded its victims of over three million euro (US$3.04 million).

Austria extradited to the U.S. a Turkish businessman to face charges for laundering illicit proceeds from a renewable-energy tax credit fraud, the U.S. Justice Department said in astatement.

A Swiss court last week acquitted former FIFA and UEFA officials Joseph Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini of fraud in connection with a US$2 million deal they struck.

On request of EU prosecutors, Italian Financial Police (Guardia di Finanza) in Palermo placed 12 suspects of corruption and fraud under house arrest on Tuesday and rdered another 10 to report to the judicial police in connection with the misuse of EU funds.

Italian and Albanian authorities took down Friday an organized crime network suspected of multiple criminal conspiracies including defrauding the Italian national health system, as well as corruption and drug trafficking, Eurojustreported.

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.