The United States put another foreign law enforcement official in their sights Monday as they designated Guatemalan Attorney General Maria Consuelo Porras Argueta de Porres ineligible to enter the U.S. due to her involvement in significant corruption and for obstructing criminal investigations for personal gain.

The United States has climbed to the top of a 2022 financial secrecy index which ranks countries most complicit in helping individuals hide their wealth and is followed by the likes of Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United Arab Emirates and the British Virgin Islands.

United States federal investigators seized almost a tonne of cocaine, arrested six individuals and uncovered a tunnel connecting Mexico’s Tijuana with Otay Mesa in California and completely bypassed the U.S.-Mexico border, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported Monday.

Cleaning house, Honduras extradited former police chief Juan Carlos Bonilla Valladares, alias El Tigre, to the United States to face drug trafficking charges similar to those ex-President Juan Orlando Hernández was accused of and handed over to the U.S. several weeks ago.

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who for years has been a principal suspect in a transnational drug trafficking conspiracy, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in U.S. federal court.

A chemical engineer for the Coca-Cola Company was sentenced Monday to 14 years in prison on espionage and fraud charges that stemmed from trade secrets she stole on behalf of the Chinese government and Chinese business interests - secrets that cost nearly US$120 million to develop.

The operator of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP,) has settled with the U.S government for facilitating tens of millions of illegal telemarketing calls that, amongst other things, spread COVID-19 disinformation.

In order to throw a wrench into the Russian war machine’s advances, the United Kingdom, the United States and their European allies imposed a broad range of new sanctions across various sectors, with talks of halting all future oil imports to the EU in the works as well.

Violence erupted throughout Colombia over the weekend after the government extradited the head of the notorious drug trafficking organization “Clan del Golfo” to the United States, where he is facing a life sentence.

U.S. authorities have sanctioned a cryptocurrency ‘tumbler’ used by North Korea to launder stolen digital currency, the first such measures to be brought against a virtual currency mixer.

Two Lebanese citizens living in Georgia were extradited to the United States last week to face money laundering charges after being accused of laundering tens of millions of dollars for criminals worldwide, the United States Department of Justice said in a statement.

Four members and two associates of New York’s Genovese crime family were charged with multiple counts of racketeering in a superseding indictment unveiled by a federal court in New York, a U.S. Department of Justice statement said on Tuesday.

A federal jury indicted a 76-year-old man from Las Vegas for partnering with foreign telemarketers to steal financial information from American consumers, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday.

U.S. courts sent three men behind bars for installing skimming devices on ATMs and gas pump pay machines to steal financial information from the credit and debit cards of unsuspecting victims.

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a Putin-aligned Russian lawmaker and two of his staffers for operating an international foreign influence and disinformation campaign to advance the interests of Russia.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) uncovered on Monday a multi-year penny stock scheme that generated US$194 million in illicit proceeds, leading to charges against 15 individuals and one corporate consulting firm spanning three continents.

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has hit headlines since Russia invaded Ukraine. Billions of his assets have been frozen by a court in Jersey. French authorities have seized a US$120 million mansion he owns on the Riviera coast. And the fate of his U.K. Premier League football club, Chelsea, has been front-page news around the world.

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 U.S. court ordered Monday that six California-based companies pay US$1.83 billion in restitution for defrauding the country of $1.8 billion in customs duties that stemmed from disguised aluminum imports.

A U.S. jury convicted Friday a former Managing Director of Goldman Sachs for his role in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) embezzlement scandal, in which the bank paid billions in bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi government officials in order to obtain lucrative business dealings.