Authorities in Italy and Spain have crushed a sophisticated drug trafficking and money laundering network that is believed to be linked to the infamous Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.

Money laundering for organized criminal activity rose in Israel 12.2% over the course of 2021 compared to 2020, according toa new report by the Jewish state’s Authority for the Prohibition of Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing.

Authorities have dismantled a criminal network that was smuggling migrants from Turkey to Europe via private jet trips costing up to 20,000 euros ($20,000) per head, Eurojustsaid on Friday.

Spanish police arrested one of Europe’s biggest money launderers linked to an Irish criminal clan and dismantled the Spanish branch of his international network that used an ancient money exchange system to launder more than 200 million euro (US$199.26 million) in just over a year.

A court in Paraguay has sent a member of a criminal bank card cloning gang behind bars for eight years for taking part in the theft of more than US$1 billion from tourists visiting Latin America.

Spanish police reported Monday the dismantling of two cocaine processing plants, in an operation that resulted in seven arrests and the seizure of more than 800 kilos of drugs before they could reach the streets.

El Salvador has detained more than 50,000 suspected members of organized crime groups since a state of emergency was declared five months ago, prompting lawmakers to extend it until September 20.

A hitman for a renowned Puerto Rican drug trafficking organization wassentenced to 40 years in prison following his guilty plea to the murder of three people as part of a  racketeering conspiracy, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.

Interpol has uncovered that even on a small scale, organized crime generates hundreds of millions of dollars from pollution-related offences annually, with such devastating consequences to local communities and the environment that it has described it as a global phenomenon.

Few live in Canada’s frigid and wild Yukon province, a nearly 200,000 mile stretch of land wedged between the Alaska and the Arctic Circle, yet organized crime is growing in the region, according toa recent report by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force (RCMP).

Throughout Nigeria, Pentecostal churches act as a gateway for criminal organizations to traffic young girls across Europe and coerce them into the world of prostitution, according to the Investigative Reporting Project Italy (IRPI).

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).

Ecuador prosecuted eight alleged members of a transnational drug trafficking organization on Friday, in a case where over three tonnes of cocaine were creatively concealed in bottles of tea and within the very walls of the vehicles transporting them.

When Spanish authorities raided the home of a suspected drug trafficker in the Valencian town of Guadasser, they were expecting to find drugs and weapons. Instead they found a trove of archaeological artifacts stretching back to the 12th century which were suspected to looted.

The U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has established a new unit with a mandate to investigate corrupt elites, sanction evaders, and enablers of money laundering.

Since they first separated from Ukraine in 2014, a nexus of crime, corruption and rebellion has flourished in the Russian-backed Donetsk and Luhansk ‘People’s Republics’ (DNR and LNR) as well as Russian occupied Crimea, a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) found.

The West African nation of Liberia is entering a period of accelerating vulnerability, threatening to create conditions for a resurgence of organized crime – according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

Genoans organized a sit-in demonstration in front of the Prefecture of Genoa on Sunday, joining over a thousand people in Milan who organized last week the first ever protests against Italy’s biggest mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta.

Two people died and one was wounded during a clash between the Mexican Army and the Sinaloa Cartel that erupted after soldiers arrested four cartel members, including the leader of an armed wing of assassins, the Ministry of National Defense reported Tuesday.

Spanish authoritiesshut down Sunday a large-scale, clandestine tobacco operation that had the necessary infrastructure to illegally produce just under fifty million cigarettes per month.