Czech authorities arrested on Monday ten suspects linked to a multi-year corruption and money laundering conspiracy involving public contracts to procure medical supplies for the country’s hospitals.

"Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny," declared Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of the Russian opposition leader, in her first public address on her husband's YouTube channel on Monday.

Robbing ATMs requires a sophisticated plan and a criminal group in Spain came up with what they thought was a really good one but turned out to be not good enough.

A China-born businesswoman accused of taking part in an audacious plot to fly a light plane packed with drugs from Papua New Guinea to Australia allegedly ordered a co-conspirator to pay into a bank account in the name of PNG’s former migration chief in order to obtain a visa, court filings show.

Ukraine says it has served the globally sanctioned Russian billionaire  Oleg Deripaska a notice of suspicion in absentia for property embezzlement, money laundering and trying to change the nation’s borders by aiding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Alexei Navalny, 47, the loudest critic of the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his regime, died in jail, the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service announced on Friday.

Hungary’s freedom of the press has been under direct fire since Prime Minister Viktor Orban came into power in 2010, from obstructing the press in its pursuit of media pluralism, to hostile surveillance and smear campaigns against journalists, human rights and press freedom advocates said.

President Vladimir Putin signed a bill that allows authorities to seize assets from individuals convicted of “discrediting” or propagating “fake news” about the Russian army.

In a bid to further crack down on critics, Russian authorities unveil potential new measures targeting alleged “foreign agents” who oppose the Moscow regime.

The United Nations Human Rights office denounced on Tuesday the detention of human rights activist Rocío San Miguel, whom Venezuelan authorities have accused of wanting to kill President Nicolas Maduro. The U.N. sees the arrest as part of an ongoing government campaign to silence critics.