In two separate, Europol-coordinated operations, Spanish and Romanian police detained five suspects and dismantled their illegal print shops, preventing this way millions of counterfeit euros and Romanian lei from entering the European financial circuits.

Panamanian prosecutors have summoned two of the country’s former presidents in separate investigations into corruption and money laundering, launched by the Special Anticorruption Prosecutor's Office and the Specialized First Superior Prosecutor's Office against Organized Crime.

Boston-based pharmaceutical company Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. said it will pay US$21.5 million to settle bribery and other violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) charges with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

A Nigerian Instagram influencer has made his first court appearance in the US on charges alleging that he laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit proceeds from email scams and other cyber-enabled fraud, including a scheme that targeted an English Premier League football club.

Footage uploaded to social media shows the dramatic aftermath of a crash-landing in Mexico, shortly after the plane had been used to smuggle almost 400 kilograms of cocaine into the country.

The judge who sent Nawaz Sharif behind bars for graft has been dismissed on Friday for violating the code of conduct, which paves the way for the former prime minister to be acquitted and for Pakistan’s political rift to deepen at a time the country is struggling with the coronavirus pandemic.

Customs officials in the US have detained a shipment of suspected forced labour products possibly made with hair taken from Muslims detained in China’s notorious prison camps.

Ryan Kamada, a former judge from Colorado’s 19th Judicial District, pleaded guilty Tuesday to obstructing a federal task force’s large scale drug trafficking investigation, according to a statement from the US Department of Justice. 

Italian police in Sicily arrested on Wednesday 45 people believed to be linked to the Cosa Nostra mafia, while German police arrested the clan’s deputy leader in the southwestern town of Wolzburg.

At the request of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Mexican authorities are investigating a Romanian organized crime group that OCCRP recently exposed as running one of the largest ATM scams in the world from its Cancún headquarters.