The Council of the European Union, the EU essential decision maker, has proposed improvements to draft legislation that would ban all products manufactured through forced labor within the European Union (EU), asking for the prohibition to also apply to products bought online and for the strengthening of control mechanisms that would expose such products.
Transparency International warned on Tuesday that the world is sinking deeper into corruption, with a decline in the effectiveness of justice systems, as indicated by its 2023 Corruption Perception Index ranking countries based on their perceived levels of public sector corruption.
A Pakistani anti-graft court on Wednesday send the former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to prison for 14 years in a case related to the unlawful sale of state gifts. His supporters question the harsh sentence that comes days before elections.
Human rights organizations have accused U.S. petrochemical plants in Texas and Louisiana of polluting the environment so severely that the toxic substances they release have caused respiratory diseases and cancer among people living nearby.
Authorities in the United States charged Monday three individuals tied to a US$1.89 billion cryptocurrency fraud scheme, in which two of them allegedly defrauded investors through fake crypto mining operations; the third defendant pleaded guilty the same day.
Transnational illicit activities, ranging from romance scams to human trafficking, generated over US$3 trillion in 2023, resulting in the destruction of victims' sense of security and, in some cases, their lives, according to a 2024 Global Financial Crime Report by Nasdaq.
Spanish national police uncovered Monday a conspiracy wherein funeral home workers allegedly trafficked corpses to universities across the country under the guise of donating them to science.
Ukrainian investigators have accused current and former high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Defense as well as employees of an arms supplier company of embezzling nearly US$40 million designated for the purchase of mortar rounds the country needs to fight off Russia's aggression.
German prosecutors brought bribery and corruption charges against four people on Monday, including two former lawmakers suspected of receiving bribes from Azerbaijan in exchange for voting in Baku’s favor at the Council of Europe.
The Spanish judge investigating Russian interference in the Catalonian independence process has extended the probe for another six months after receiving an anonymous letter containing an article that identifies the Russian who offered Catalonian separatists US$500 billion and a small army if they break away from Madrid.