Although South Sudan's emerging gold market is quickly becoming a popular choice for traders in Africa, widespread reports of smuggling and internal corruption have deprived its people of much-needed revenue and economic development.

A court in El Salvador has sentenced former President Mauricio Funes to 14 years and one of his former ministers, David Victoriano Munguía Payés, to 18 years in prison for negotiating a truce between the country's two largest gangs, according to the country's Attorney General's Office.

The United Kingdom's tax, payments, and customs authority has issued an alert to tax credit claimants regarding the latest methods employed by fraudsters to deceive individuals and extract money or personal information.

Spanish authorities have apprehended the leader of a drug trafficking ring responsible for smuggling narcotics from Spain to Europe using helicopters, according to officials.

Italian and Spanish authorities arrested Tuesday 33 suspected members of a global money laundering network that operated at the behest of South American cartels and seized almost 20 million euro (US$21.4 million) of their assets.

French prosecutors have indicted a former vice-president of FIFA for "passive corruption" in relation to bribery allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar in 2010, Le Monde reported first and OCCRP confirmed on Monday.

Peruvian anti-drug police seized more than 57 kilograms of cocaine wrapped in packages that were labeled with the Nazi German flag and had the name “Hitler” printed in low relief. The shipment was discovered in the northern port of Paita and was on its way to Belgium.

Czech police have announced the detention of ten foreign university students in Prague, suspected of organizing a group involved in money laundering connected to online fraud, where they would fabricate stories to persuade victims to send them money.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has sanctioned the head of Wagner Group's paramilitary units for his role in facilitating Russia's aggression against Ukraine.