In a joint operation with Europol, Spanish police in the Canary Islands arrested on Monday 88 people and Italian police another 18 suspected of being connected to Italian mafia clans involved in drug trafficking, money laundering, kidnapping and fraud.

A group suspected of kidnapping a fugitive Ukrainian ex-judge from Chisinau, Moldova, may have ties to Ukrainian intelligence and law enforcement, according to an investigation published by Slidstvo.info and RISE Moldova.

Russian special forces rescued a seven-year-old boy who was kidnapped in September near his school in Gorki after an unnamed U.S. intelligence agency scouring hidden areas of the internet found a link between the boy and a user of the dark web.

Prosecutors in the U.S. have indicted two men over an alleged scheme to kidnap and torture migrants from Cuba so as to extort money from their victims’ families.

How does a criminal transfer or steal large sums of money in 2018 without leaving a trace?

The Hanoi People’s Court began proceedings in a massive and politically-charged anti-corruption trial on Monday, making Dinh La Thang the first politburo official to face Vietnamese prosecutors in decades.