The U.S. hit Russia’s Wagner Group, a private military company that has been fighting the war in Ukraine, with new sanctions that are now also targeting several individuals and firms linked to what the Department of the Treasury said was a “transnational criminal organization.”

U.S. prosecutors accused a former FBI counterintelligence agent and a court interpreter of attempting to have sanctions against Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska lifted, receiving bribes from him in return for investigating a rival oligarch and then laundering the money, the Department of Justicesaid on Monday.

Police in the United States and in the EU arrested five people and seized their globally operating Hong Kong-registered cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato because it allegedly facilitated the laundering of large sums of illicit profits and converted them into Russian rubles, a Europolstatement said on Monday.

A Texas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a romance scam that fleeced more than US$1.6 million from seniors by someone who pretended to be an army general on online dating services, a U.S.attorney’s statementsaid on Monday.

U.S. courts across the country sentenced 69 members of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang to a total of 418 years behind bars and 216 years of supervised release for crimes including drug trafficking and money laundering.

Dozens died in a wave of violence that engulfed the Mexican city of Culiacán when police last week arrested the son of jailed Sinaloa Cartel chief “El Chapo” Guzmán just days ahead of the visit of U.S. President Joe Biden to the country.

The United States sanctioned Friday Iranian drone manufacturers who have provided Russia with their unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which Washington says poses a grave threat to the people of Ukraine.

The crypto exchange platform Coinbase agreed Wednesday to pay US$100 million to settle charges levied by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) after it was found to have violated anti-money-laundering laws and not be up to code in managing its security protocols.

While trying to recapture him, Mexican police killed early Thursday morning the leader of a criminal group only days after he and other inmates escaped from prison when members of his gang stormed the facility on January 1, leaving 17 people dead.

A United States court sentenced a former Colorado funeral home owner and her mother for secretly selling parts or full corpses of hundreds of dead people to body brokers while assuring the families of the deceased that their loved ones were cremated.

Two people linked to the now defunct crypto exchange platform FTX Trading Ltd. pleaded guilty to criminal charges for their role in a multi-year scheme that defrauded investors of billions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams announced Wednesday.

The United States’ law enforcement agencies issued a warning about an “explosion” in incidents of children and teens being tricked into providing explicit photographs online and then extorted for money—a crime known as financialsextortion.

Facebook’s parent company Metasaid that it removed a number of spyware firms this year, including in China, Russia, Israel, the United States and India, which targeted people in almost 200 countries and territories.

“I’m the boss of the pyramid scammers, right?” the Brazilian ‘Bitcoin Sheik’ boasted in a private video released to media by investigators.

When Viktor Bout was at the top of his game, he was the biggest arms dealer in the world, operating an air freight empire supplying everything from flowers to combat helicopters.

Mexican cartels and criminal networks headquartered in the European Union (EU) have been collaborating to traffic methamphetamine and cocaine from Latin America to the EU, Europol and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) revealed in ajoint report Wednesday.

Seven members of an alleged U.S.-Russian conspiracy were charged with procuring advanced military hardware and technology for Russia’s military, in defiance of international sanctions, to bolster its now 10-month-long invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)reported Tuesday.

Sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleyman Kerimov funneled at least US$28 million of his fortune into San Francisco real estate and Silicon Valley startups with the help of a covert network of U.S.-based professionals, according to a new investigation published today.

Danske Banksaid Tuesday it has reached a settlement with U.S. and Danish authorities in one of the world’s largest money-laundering scandals, pleading guilty to bank fraud conspiracy and a civil securities fraud and agreeing to pay a total of US$2 billion in fines.

The former head of a New York construction union and 10 others pleaded guilty on Monday to accepting dozens of bribes against the interests of union workers, the U.S. Department of Justicesaid.