The son of the leader of Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa Cartel pleaded guilty in a U.S. court to drug trafficking and agreed to forfeit US$5 million in proceeds, a statement from the Department of Justice said. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April next year.

The Manhattan District Attorney announced on Monday that 33 cultural artifacts, worth some US$1.8 million, have been returned to Afghanistan after authorities found them among more than 2,500 looted antiquities held in the collection of notorious New York art dealer Subhash Kapoor.

A U.S. federal judge sentenced on Friday the former systems administrator of the notorious hacking group FIN7 to 10 years in prison for his role in organizing a criminal network that stole more than a billion dollars from customers whose credit card information was stolen from point-of-sale terminals, according to a Department of Justice (DOJ)press release.

After his supporters warned that he could die soon, Russian authorities transferred sick Kremlin criticAlexei Navalny to a prison hospital which some say is even worse than the cell he spent the past three months. Supporters plan mass protests over his treatment.

The U.S. Government imposed new sanctions on Russia for its interference in the 2020 U.S. election, cyberattacks and for its occupation and human rights violations in Crimea.

A jury in New York found the ringleaders of a scheme that saw more than US$150 million made from marijuana sales flow through the U.S. financial system guilty of conspiracy to commit bank fraud, the Department of Justice announced in a statement on Wednesday.

Dozens of state attorneys in the United States said they were not happy with the bankruptcy plan Purdue Pharma submitted last week because the pharmaceutical company’s founding family doesn’t provide enough compensation to the victims of the opioid crisis Purdue is accused of having fueled. 

The United States expanded on Wednesday export restrictions on Russia as part of existing sanctions over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny who has recently been transferred to a notorious Russian jail.

The United States’ $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus bill that President Joe Biden signed last week, has become the first coronavirus package to address cybersecurity as part of a national recovery plan.

Rahn+Bodmer Co., the oldest private bank in Zurich, has agreed to pay US$22 million to settle criminal charges in the United States that it helped U.S. clients hide millions of dollars they kept on offshore accounts, enabling them this way to evade paying taxes, the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement.

The U.S. State Department banned one of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs,Ihor Kolomoisky, from entering the United States because of his involvement in “significant corruption,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in astatement on Friday.

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has abused the power and the resources of her office to help promote her father’s new book, speed up the process of a work visa, and run personal errands, a reportreleased by the Department of Transportation said.

U.S. authorities have arrested the alleged leader of a criminal clan known asGroup America, believed to have smuggled tons of cocaine across the world. The gang is known for dismembering enemies with chainsaws, assassinating senior government officials and cooperating with intelligence agencies.

Less than a week after theEU sanctioned a number of Russian officials allegedly responsible for the persecutions of opposition leaderAlexei Navalny, the U.S. followed suit and sanctioned seven Russian officials and 14 companies for their role in the the Kremlin critic’s poisoning.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman (MBS), approved an operation to “capture or kill” Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018, adeclassified U.S. report has revealed on Friday.

U.S. authorities arrested Emma Coronel Aispuro, the wife of infamous drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Leora, upon her arrival at the Dulles International Airport near Washington D.C., the U.S. Department of Justice said.

President of the U.S. arts and crafts store, Hobby Lobby, and board chairman of the Washington D.C.-based Museum of the Bible, Steve Green, has returned thousands of potentially looted artifacts to Egypt and Iraq, the Museum announced in a recent statement.

The International Biathlon Union has accused its former president, Anders Besseberg, of covering up cheating and blatantly favoring Russian interests after receiving bribes in the form of prostitutes and hunting trips, according to an independentreport commissioned by the Union.

In a coordinated international effort, the FBI made critical advances in taking down the ransomware NetWalker by disrupting its dark web communication site, confiscating nearly half a million dollars in cryptocurrency payments and charging a Canadian man related to the attacks, according to a U.S. Department of Justice press release.

Kenyan national and member of an alleged endangered wildlife- and drug-trafficking gang, Mansur Mohamed Surur, has been extradited to the U.S. to face trial, the Department of Justice said in a statement on Monday.