Ukrainian authorities have arrested four suspected members of a criminal group involved in manufacturing and distributing amphetamines in sophisticated drug laboratories situated in the western region of Ivano-Frankivsk.

A convicted murderer serving two consecutive life sentences received an additional 40 years in prison  for fraud and money laundering, which stemmed from his theft of millions of dollars from his clients during his time as a U.S. personal injury attorney.

A year after the so-called ‘foreign agent law’ was ditched after massive protests, the ruling party of the country of Georgia announced on Wednesday that it will again try to push it through the parliament.

A new U.N. report has revealed how countries across Southeast Asia are exploited by the illegal trade of waste via black market dumping operations and the exploitation of legal loopholes that allow criminals to circumvent regulations altogether.

Unknown assassins have killed the mayor of a municipality in the southeastern Mexican province of Michoacán, where several criminal cartels operate and seven of the nearly 50 political candidates countrywide have been murdered over the past year.

A Turkish drug trafficker with alleged ties to Hezbollah has been found living under a false identity in a Brazilian prison after escaping incarceration in neighboring Paraguay more than six years ago, police have told OCCRP.

The Israeli Parliament approved a bill that allows the government to temporarily close the offices of foreign broadcasters in the country if it believes that their reports pose a threat to national security. The law paves the way for the closure of Al Jazeera which has been irritating Israel with its extensive reporting from Gaza.

The Colombian Attorney General's Office announced on Thursday that law enforcement had dismantled a criminal network partly composed of National Police agents that smuggled textiles, footwear, cigarettes, and other goods through the port of Barranquilla on the country’s northern coast.

The U.S. indicted Tuesday the two Chinese founders of a crypto exchange platform for violating several anti-money laundering (AML) laws, which prosecutors said helped millions of criminals and terrorist financiers launder billions of dollars.

U.S. prosecutors are seeking the seizure of two luxury New York City apartments belonging to former Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold and his family, which they believe were purchased with the proceeds of illegally awarded mining contracts.