Italian authorities arrested 63 suspected members of the infamous ‘Ndrangheta, including 11 public officials who allegedly have, among other crimes, rigged public tenders worth some 150 million euro (US$167 million), including money coming from EU funds.
US authorities charged last week a former Venezuelan lawmaker who worked together with President Nicholas Maduro with narco-terrorism and drug trafficking, claiming that he was plotting to attack the United States.
Italy’s health ministry on Friday released a summary of a confidential scientific study conducted for the government that demolishes claims IQOS devices are safer than cigarettes, in the wake of an explosive documentary by OCCRP partner RAI3.
The Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina ordered on Sunday the release of the prime minister of one of Bosnia’s two semi-autonomous regions who was detained late Thursday over his alleged involvement in the procurement of pricy, inadequate ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Masked, disinfected and sitting at least two meters away from each other, lawmakers in Lebanon adopted on Thursday a law that allows anti-corruption investigators to access the bank records of current and former state officials and lawmakers, the state news agency reported.
Bosnia’s police detained late Thursday Fadil Novalić, the prime minister of one of Bosnia’s two semi-autonomous regions, for his alleged involvement in the procurement of inadequate ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Russian authorities found 70 tons of European cheeses smuggled into the country as construction material which shows how Kremlin’s six-year-old political decision to ban import of food from the EU has given organized crime another opportunity to profit from sanctions.
Just weeks after organised crime experts warned of an uptick in human smuggling amid the pandemic, European authorities have in the last 48 hours arrested more than 30 alleged human smugglers, with a UN agency reporting that almost 500 migrants had been rescued in the Mediterranean and returned to Libya.
US authorities arrested and charged a former Hollywood CEO in the latest case of a string of attempts to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) the United States have introduced to help companies deal with the coronavirus crisis.
A Canadian court has ruled that extradition proceedings against Chinese tech giant Huawei’s CFO, brought by US authorities, will resume next week.