A Panamanian national was extradited from Guatemala to the United States on Monday for alleged money laundering and bribery offences totalling roughly US$28 million linked to the Brazilian-based Odebrecht S.A. corruption scandal, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).

U.S. prosecutors charged three men with varying counts of wire fraud and money laundering committed in a scheme to solicit donations through fraudulent political action committees (PACs) during the 2016 election cycle, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a statement Monday.

The Biden administration sanctioned Chatex, the second largest crypto wallet and a full-fledged cryptobank, accusing it of laundering the proceeds of ransomware. The move is part of the administration’s to disrupt ransomware actors and their infrastructure and address abuse of the virtual currency ecosystem to launder ransom payments.

U.S authorities in Seattle arrested two men from the Democratic Republic of the Congo for smuggling several small packages of ivory into the country to strike a deal with a buyer to bring over a much larger load. 

Latvian state police on Wednesday seized from a Russian businessman 250,000 euro (US$290,000) worth of real estate as part of an ongoing investigation into a cross border money laundering scheme first uncovered by late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. 

The U.S. financial authority announced the renewal of its regulations aimed at preventing money laundering in purchases of residential real estates.

A U.S. courtsentenced the kingpin of an international money laundering network to 15 years in prison for his role in laundering at least US$30 million in illicit drug proceeds on behalf of transnational drug trafficking organizations.

U.S. courts last week indicted three Colombians and two Venezuelans for laundering US$1.6 billion in bribes allegedly paid to Venezuelan officials in exchange for contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed in a statement.

Jordan, Turkey and Mali were categorized last week as “Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring,” or countries that have to work on removing strategic deficiencies in their systems to counter money laundering, terrorist and proliferation financing, a global finance watchdog said.

A 36-year-old Australian suspected of being connected to two outlaw motorcycle gangs and believed to have been laundering money will have to forfeit about US$1.3 million to the Commonwealth, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Sunday.

Law enforcement agencies from eight countries in Europe arrested 61 suspects and seized more than four tons of cocaine, as well as money and luxury vehicles during last week’s crackdown on a Balkan drug cartel suspected of running the continent’s largest cocaine trafficking network.

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 Nigerian national living in Oklahoma was sentenced on Friday for running a ring that laundered at least US2.5 million obtained from romance scams that preyed on elderly Americans.

The man who laundered millions for cyber criminals around the world has been sentenced to 11 years behind bars, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

After having been criticized for being a tax haven, Luxembourg’s Ministry of Justice will put forward a draft bill aimed at allowing authorities to sanction those who use the country’s financial system for money laundering and tax evasion.

The son of Mozambique’s ex-president and 18 bankers and government officials have faced the judge on Monday in a long-awaited trial over the so-called “tuna bonds” scandal involving US$2 billion worth of secret bank loans and bonds that plunged the nation into a financial crisis.

Mexican authorities rearrested on Monday one of the seven brothers who ran the notorious Mexican Arellano Felix cartel that used to move tons of drugs from Mexico and Colombia to the United States.

Financial institutions around the world paid in the first two quarters of this year more than US$937 million in penalties for breaching anti-money laundering procedures, the Dublin-based fintech company Fenergo reported.

A man in Ohio pled guilty on Wednesday to laundering over US$300 million in bitcoin through his cryptocurrency service accessible on the Darknet.

Homes in Beverly Hills purchased with embezzled money by Kuwaiti officials. A skyscraper in the heart of Manhattan controlled by the Iranian government. Real estate investments from a boutique firm that received millions of dollars from Colombian drug cartels.