Spanish and Polish authorities arrested 17 alleged members of a transnational human trafficking organization and rescued 13 victims who were forced to endure slavery-like conditions and sexual servitude, Europol reported Tuesday.

Robbing banks or jewelry stores is so passé these days. Instead of guns and balaclavas, criminals now use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrencies combined with phishing and ransomware - low cost and quite effective methods to steal people’s money, Interpol claims in a new report.

Armenia’s Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, admitted to irregularities in donations received by the ruling party in recent years but claimed they fall short of a crime.

A court in Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday extended the pre-trial detention of eight journalists who are charged with “inciting mass unrest” –– accusations that come amidst a widespread government crackdown on free speech.

A year-long Europol-led investigation led to the arrest of 19 suspects in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia and the dismantling of migrant smuggling networks that had been operating for years along the so-called Balkan route.

Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted in a U.S. federal court of abusing his office to help drug traffickers ship more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.

The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) is implementing a wide range of reforms following OCCRP and 13 media partners’ revelations about its history of scandal, corruption and lax oversight and lending practices.

While synthetic opioids claim tens of thousands of American lives every year, illicit fentanyl and money laundering converge in a shadowy underworld that thrives thanks to enablers exploiting loopholes in U.S. anti-money laundering laws not seen elsewhere in the West.

Amidst a government crackdown on press freedom, a court in Kyrgyzstan is expected to decide this week whether 11 journalists charged with “inciting mass unrest” will remain in pre-trial detention.

Around 100 former Del Monte security guards stood outside the gates of the company’s headquarters in Thika, Kenya on Thursday afternoon. They were extremely angry, having turned up day after day to receive their severance checks.