Credit lines to Brazil’s meat producers that are linked to deforestation may be numbered as the country’s banks have agreed to require meatpackers and slaughterhouses to implement environmental monitoring for suppliers who raise cattle in the Amazon region, the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban) announced.

Police in 44 countries arrested 212 suspects and identified 1,426 potential victims of sexual exploitation, forced begging, and forced crime during a global anti-human trafficking operation, an Interpol statement announced on Thursday.

Bosnia and Herzegovina's law enforcement dismantled a cocaine gang that was uncovered thanks to the decryption of the covert Sky ECC application - a communication app EU law enforcement managed to crack and get access to conversations between various criminals, including Europe’s drug gangs.

A Brazilian court hasshortened the prison sentence of a man who established a barricade to extort money from people, reducing it from 100 years to 70 years. However, he still faces legal consequences as one of Brazil's major deforesters and found guilty the length of his sentence could go back to 100.

The United States has extradited Alejandro Toledo, Peru’s former president, who will now face trial in his home country for bribery related to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.

A U.S. court has sentenced the former treasurer of Venezuela, Claudia Patricia Díaz Guillén, and her husband, Adrián José Velásquez Figueroa, to 15 years in prison each for their involvement in a massive bribery and money laundering scheme that lasted almost a decade.

Brazilian policerescued 19 Paraguayans who were lured to the country with the promise of a better life, but instead found themselves trapped in an illegal cigarette factory in Rio de Janeiro, where they were forced to work long hours under inhumane conditions.

Ecuador has declared the Argentinian ambassador to the country persona non grata for allowing a former Ecuadorian minister who found refuge at his Residence in Quito after a court sentenced her for corruption to leave the country, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairssaid Tuesday.

TheSpanish National Police said that an international investigation resulted in the detention of seven people who were caught transporting more than 800 kilograms of cocaine aboard a Gambian fishing boat in Senegalese waters. Some of the suspects are believed to be linked to the Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta.

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and current vice president, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and banned for life from holding public office, after acourt found her guilty of awarding public works contracts to a friend.

Security forces from eight European countries arrested 12 suspected members of a Balkan drug cartel accused of bringing tonnes of cocaine from South America into Europe.

An organized crime group spent years smuggling rare exotic birds from South America and Asia to collectors across Europe. Now, one of their former couriers is speaking out.

Spanish policesaid they arrested eight suspects and seized for the first time three underwater drones especially designed to carry up to two hundred kilos of drugs.

Argentinian authorities reported Tuesday the execution of amajor drug seizure in which multiple houses and sailboats were raided and found to have been trafficking over a tonne and a half of cocaine bound for Europe.

Colombian and Panamanianauthorities have dismantled a drug trafficking ring that used semi-submersible vessels to move tonnes of cocaine from the Pacific Coast to Central and North America.

In a massive operation that spanned four Brazilian states, authorities cracked down on a sophisticated money laundering network of the criminal gang Os Manos, arresting nearly 60 suspects.

Croatian police reported Tuesday that they have confiscated a record amount of drugs — roughly 62 kilos of cocaine and 220 kilograms of heroin — in the country’s southern port of Ploče in two separate operations in October and November.

The U.K. National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested a man for allegedly participating in the shipping of several tons of cocaine from South America to Germany. The agency explained that the suspect had used the encrypted platform EncroChat to communicate with his associates.

Italian authorities ordered on Tuesday the preventive detention of 15 suspected members of an international gang believed to have imported cocaine from South America in cooperation with the ‘Ndrangheta, one of Italy’s four major mafia groups.

Police across South America arrested nearly 4,000 suspects and confiscated some 200,000 illicit firearms, ammunition, explosives and components in a massive operation targeting arms trafficking, Interpol said on Tuesday.