The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Tuesday charged a New York-based entrepreneur and his companies with making fraudulent misrepresentations in securities offerings to investors who paid tens of millions in hopes of obtaining permanent residency status.

A smiley and astoundingly expensive face surprised the U.S. Customs Service in one of their latestseizures in Cincinnati, Ohio. Last week they found a replica of a Swiss luxury company's newest watch, currently listed for resale at more than $3.78 million.

The cryptocurrency company Tether said Monday that it froze approximately US$225 million worth of its tokens from wallets linked to an international “pig butchering” scam ring in Southeast Asia that exploited more than 70 victims.

A U.S. federal court convicted last weekthe geriatric former owners of a now defunct website, wherein they earned US$500 million in aprostitution promotion scheme while simultaneously covering up the site’s traffic from search engines and investigators.

The owner of six California skilled nursing facilities agreed to a US$45.6 millionsettlement Wednesday toresolve allegations that she and her companies hadsubmitted false Medicare claims and paid kickbacks to physicians at the expense of her patients’ health and well-being.

A Russian and Moldovan national pleaded guilty Tuesday todeveloping a malicious botnet hacking tool and unleashing it upon tens of thousands of internet users around the world, allowing him to sell access to his victims’ computers to other cybercriminals.

The final defendant in a drug trafficking ring which smuggled its product into the U.S. withintubs of butter was sentenced Wednesday to spend the next decade behind bars.

Law enforcement officials in New York have apprehended three individuals suspected of being associated with a drug trafficking organization that was operating from a pizzeria in the Bronx. During their operation, they seized various drugs estimated to be worth around US$4 million.

Among the released individuals is Roland Carreño, a Venezuelan journalist known for his critical stance against President Nicolás Maduro's government. Carreño was arrested in Caracas in October 2020 by the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) on charges of alleged money laundering, financing terrorism, criminal conspiracy, and illegal trafficking of war weapons.

The U.S. imposed sanctions on the children of Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik and four companies under their management, highlighting concerns that the Bosnian Serb region, known as Republika Srpska (RS), is increasingly resembling a Dodik family enterprise rather than a political entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).

The U.S. hassanctioned 28 individuals and companies responsible for producing and distributing deadly drugs such as fentanyl, methamphetamine, MDMA, and precursor chemicals for drug production to the United States and Mexico through a Chinese supply chain.

The head of the U.S. company Metalhouse LLC pleaded guilty this week to conspiracy to commit money laundering to promote violations of U.S. sanctions against a sanctioned Russian oligarch and his companies.

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced on Wednesday that it has initiated the process of selling its Russian operations to a newly established “community exchange” and will be completely exiting the nation.

A Filipino national pleaded guilty on Wednesday to being part of a group that arranged sham marriages and filed fraudulent applications on behalf of more than 600 immigrants in the United States who needed green cards.

The United Statesannounced Monday that a Russian national who had been living in Hong Kong has been detained and charged with smuggling to Russia dual-use microelectronics with military applications manufactured in the U.S.

A U.S. court convicted a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Nigeria of wire fraud involving a so-called ‘attorney collection scheme’ that left U.S.-based attorneys without US$20 million, the Office of the United States Attorney of the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced Monday.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning on Tuesday regarding violent organized crime groups operating online. These groups employ coercive tactics to compel minors into engaging in acts of self-harm, public suicide, and the creation of explicit content, including child sex abuse material.

The United States has urged financial institutions to pay attention and recognize an infamous virtual currency investment scam known as "pig butchering," believed to have cost victims in the U.S. billions of dollars.

The United States and the United Kingdom sanctioned 11 members of a Russian cybercrime ring behind the Trickbot/Conti ransomware assaults. These attacks targeted vital infrastructure and hospitals during the COVID-19 outbreak.

Recent headlines about the multinational conglomerate 3M violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) through its bribery of Chinese government officials reveal a "very common practice" against proper compliance protocols in the business world, according to an international anti-corruption expert interviewed by OCCRP.