U.S. authorities returned to Mali a massive trove of looted artifacts, which border officials in Texas discovered over a decade ago, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement.

Two Nigerian fraudsters were handed a combined sentence of over 22 years in federal prison on Monday for their part in a global network that is compromising business emails to trick employees into transferring company money to them, according to a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) statement.

After the close of the 2021 Climate Change Conference (COP26), activist groups are saying that despite the focus on healthy oceans and maritime sustainability, one pressing topic remained unspoken -- illegal fishing.

Hong Kong Customs reported last week the seizure of a smuggling vessel carrying approximately 200 tonnes of frozen meat with an estimated market value of HK$5 million (US$642,000).

In a series of raids last week, Italian police rounded up over 100 suspects who they believed to be affiliated with the ‘Ndrangheta, Italy’s largest Mafia group, Italy’s State Police revealed in a statement.

At least 2,700 contract killings took place in 2019 and 2020 in more than 80 countries, enabling criminals to silence those who oppose them and dissuade efforts into investigating their activities, according to a Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) report.

Authorities in the United Kingdom found a London-based criminal group guilty of trying to smuggle 69 Albanian migrants into the country in a run-down fishing boat and of plotting to bring in 50 more every week, the NCA reported on Wednesday.

The Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans has turned over US$1million to the U.S. government to settle claims that it defrauded FEMA and violated the false claims act in the aftermath of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed in a statement on Monday.

Liechtenstein’s judicial authorities have a “pending money laundering investigation” in relation to Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salame, the country’s Prosecutor General confirmed in an email to OCCRP.

U. S. authorities said they will seize and sell around US$56 million in fraudulent proceeds from a conspirator self-described as the “number one promoter” of BitConnect, a cryptocurrency investment scheme which was in fact a Ponzi scheme.