A U.K. court has sentenced the main administrator of a scam website known as iSpoof to 13 years and four months in prison. The administrator enabled criminals to make calls impersonating banks, retail companies, or government institutions, tricking people into disclosing their security data so that their accounts could be emptied.

An ophthalmic supply company wasordered by a U.S. federal court on Monday to forfeit US$487 million for paying kickbacks to eye surgeons performing cataract surgeries.

In February a Maltese court annulled a 2.1-billion-euro public healthcare contract over suspicion of fraud. Financial records obtained by reporters show the people behind the contract used company accounts to buy personal and luxury items, and funneled millions of euros to themselves and relatives under the guise of loans and other payments.

United States Congressman George Santosreached an agreement with Brazilian authorities on Thursday to avoid prosecution for stealing two checks from a deceased person and using them to buy personal items, including a pair of sneakers.

The U.S.indicted a Russian national for allegedly creating and managing the Try2Check platform, a cybercrime hub that allowed criminals to verify the validity of stolen credit cards before making luxury purchases at the expense of their owners.

Uganda’s Minister of Planning Amos Lugoloobi became on Monday the second government minister to be charged in relation to the theft of 14,500 metal roofing sheets that were supposed to be distributed to the poor but ended up in the hands of senior government officials. In this case, on the roof the minister’s goat shed.

A court in Uganda has charged government minister Mary Goretti Kitutu with four counts related to the theft of 14,500 metal roofing sheets that were supposed to be distributed to the poor but ended up in the hands of the minister’s family members and senior government officials.

European authorities busted a complicated tax evasion network in Belgium that involved Chinese exporters suspected of putting in place a complex system of evading VAT and customs on imported products aimed for the European Union’s market.

French authorities raided five banks across Paris’ finance center on Tuesday, in an attempt to uncover evidence of a multi-billion euro tax fraud scheme dubbed “CumCum”.

A Chinese businessman was arrested on Wednesday in New York for allegedly leading a group that cheated thousands of online followers out of over US$1 billion, the U.S. Department of Justicesaid.

The days of Olufunmilade Adeyemi as a con artist seemed to have been numbered in 2018 when he was arrested in Ghana and extradited to his native Nigeria to face justice for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in sales of fictitious property in the suburbs of Lagos.

A woman who fled to Montenegro last year to avoid a prison sentence for her role in a COVID-19 relief fund scam has been extradited to the United States to serve for fraudulently obtaining more than US$20 million, the Department of Justicesaid Tuesday.

Two months after the eruption of acorruption scandal involving several members of the European Parliament (MEP), the European Public Prosecutor's Office(EPPO) said that it had confiscated more than 170,000 euros (US$181,323) from an Italian MEP as part of a fraud probe.

Bulgarian law enforcement conducted dozens of searches throughout the country on Monday in support of an ongoing investigation into alleged multi-million euro fraud involving under-reporting of EU Emission Trading System (ETS), emissions by power and heating stations.

Law enforcement agencies across Europe dismantled a Franco-Israeli crime network that specialized in impersonating high ranking personnel in various companies and use their authority to have more than 38 million euros (US$40.6 million) transferred to their own bank accounts.

The CEO of the purported cryptocurrency and foreign exchange trading platform EminiFX pleaded guilty to defrauding tens of thousands of investors out of almost a quarter of a billion dollars.

Italian police detained 56 suspected mafiosi and seized more than 200 million euros (US$217.89 million) in assets during an operation that, according to authorities, broke the spine of the country’s most prominent organized crime structure, the Calabria-based ‘Ndrangheta.

The crypto exchange platform Coinbase agreed Wednesday to pay US$100 million to settle charges levied by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) after it was found to have violated anti-money-laundering laws and not be up to code in managing its security protocols.

Two people linked to the now defunct crypto exchange platform FTX Trading Ltd. pleaded guilty to criminal charges for their role in a multi-year scheme that defrauded investors of billions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Wednesday.

Seven members of an alleged U.S.-Russian conspiracy were charged with procuring advanced military hardware and technology for Russia’s military, in defiance of international sanctions, to bolster its now 10-month-long invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)reported Tuesday.