After a 13-years-long investigation, two oil executives eventually went Tuesday on trial in Stockholm, Sweden, for abetting grave war crimes committed more than 20 years ago when a consortium led by their company searched for oil in South Sudan.

A Swedish court cleared on Wednesday Swedbank’s former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen of playing down the bank’s inadequate prevention of massive money-laundering through its operations in the Baltic states.

Swedbank’s former CEO went on trial in Stockholm Tuesday in a high-profile white-collar crime case involving massive money laundering in its Baltic branches.

A global, multi-agency effort took down one of the world’s largest hacker forums and arrested several individuals, including the site’s administrator, Europol said in a press release.

A Swedish court cleared on Wednesday a former business area manager at engineering giant Bombardier of corruption charges, arguing that prosecutors could not prove that Thomas Bimer offered a multimillion dollar bribe to secure a railway deal in Azerbaijan.

In a rare case for a Western company, two top executives from Lundin Energy of Sweden were indicted on Thursday for complicity in grave war crimes committed in Sudan between 1999 and 2003, when the Sudanese army allegedly indiscriminately killed civilians to pave way for Lundin’s oil exploration, prosecutors argue.

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Spanish and Swedish law enforcement arrested 71 people last week during a joint operation against an international drug trafficking group suspected of some 50 debt-related murders, Spanish Police said.

A former manager at the Swedish branch of Bombardier Transportation, a major engineering company, has been indicted on Wednesday on charges of aggravated bribery in what is one of Sweden’s biggest ever corruption scandals.

A court in Stockholm has upheld acquittal for Lars Nyberg, former president of telecoms group Telia, and two associates in a case involving multi-million dollar payments made to Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the former president of Uzbekistan.

Balkan arms smugglers are supplying Sweden’s criminal groups with assault rifles, Serbian pistols and Yugoslav-era hand grenades, fuelling the country’s rising gang violence, according to a new report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.

Two Russians were sentenced by a Swedish court on Monday to lengthy prison sentences for attempting to murder one of Chechnya's most popular bloggers with a hammer while he was sleeping.

Swedish authorities have managed to seize a server in Germany that contains records of calls from Kyiv-based fraudsters who are suspected of stealing the life savings of hundreds of elderly victims around the world by convincing them, among others, to invest in fictitious cryptocurrencies, Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter reported. 

Sweden’sSEB bank has to pay a SEK1 billion (US$107 million) administrative fine for failing to provide adequate anti-money laundering (AML) measures in its subsidiaries in Baltic countries, Swedish financial watchdogannounced last week.

Although Swedish authorities said it is not likely that a Pakistani journalist who has been found dead in a river near Uppsala was killed, colleagues and press freedom groups remain skeptical as he had reported about human rights abuses in his native country.

Swedbank carried out almost 37 billion euros (US$40 billion) of transactions with a high risk of money laundering over five years, according to an internal investigation published on Monday that found the bank’s Baltic businesses actively chased risky customers.

Coronavirus travel restrictions have stalled Sweden’s investigation into an international fraud carried out by a sham Ukrainian investment company, according to Dagens Nyheter.

The Swedish government is demanding a decisive international response to online scams in the wake of a media investigation into a fraudulent Ukrainian investment company that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from vulnerable would-be investors.

Authorities in Stockholm could not confirm claims made by Swedish media that Swedbank's former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen will be questioned about the money-laundering scandal involving accounts at the bank’s Baltic branches.

Swedbank’s board decided not to pay bonuses to 170 Swedbank’s top executives due to the money laundering scandal that hit the bank last year, reported Bloomberg on Tuesday.