The South African High Court renewed on Wednesday former President Jacob Zuma’s prison sentence, annulling a previous decision that granted him medical parole. Zuma’s charitable foundation said that it considers the new ruling a death sentence.
A U.K.-based firm that exported petroleum and chemical products from Turkmen state oil and gas plants was dissolved less than a month after reporters uncovered it had at one point been controlled by a nephew of Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.
Piracy is drawing annually over US$500 million from the countries which line the Gulf of Guinea, which has turned into the world’s current maritime piracy hotspot, far outpacing the waters off the coast of Somalia and the rest of East Africa.
The European Union adopted on Monday sanctions against a group of Russian private military contractors, accusing them of human rights abuses in Libya, Syria, Ukraine and Africa.
The CEO of Lithuania’s railway company (LTG) announced his resignation on Tuesday after a scandal over the transit of fertilizers produced by a U.S.-sanctioned Belarus company.
Spanish authorities, in collaboration with their Dutch partners, reported on Tuesday the arrest of 16 people and the dismantling of a Mexican cartel’s drug trafficking and money laundering operation that saw narcotics being concealed inside concrete blocks and smuggled into Europe.
A Canadian said to be ‘The Voice’ behind ISIS pleaded guilty on Friday to conspiring to support a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ).
Nearly 40% of the e-payment sector in the United Kingdom, which made more than £500 billion (US$660.2 billion) worth of transactions in 2020/21, have been flagged red — a warning of money laundering risk, a Transparency International UK research published on Tuesday found.
An operation spanning 61 countries led to the arrest of 216 suspects linked to migrant smuggling and human trafficking throughout Latin America, Interpol reported Friday.