Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been imprisoned for nearly 800 days in one of Russia’s most dreadful prison colonies when a documentary on his poisoning and political activities won the Oscar as an outstanding documentary feature.

Spanish authorities dismantled Tuesday a criminal ring that trafficked poverty-stricken women from Latin America to Europe, forcibly confined them indoors 23 hours per day, and prostituted them to whatever needs their clients demanded of them.

As part of President Joe Biden’s 2024 fiscal budget proposal, roughly half a billion dollars is set to be dedicated towards deterring criminal actors from laundering their ill-gotten gains through the U.S. financial system.

For someone sanctioned for corruption as a public servant during the regime of Muammar Gaddafi, Abdulhamid Daibaba made a pretty good comeback.

The Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto agreed to pay a US$15 million penalty to settle with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) the accusation that it had paid $10.5 million to a friend of former Guinean President Alpha Condé to retain globally important iron ore rights.

Pressed by two days of mass protests all across Georgia, the ruling Georgian Dream party reversed course, announcing its intention on Thursday to withdraw the controversial “foreign agent” bill, which had been unexpectedly passed on first reading two days earlier.

A court in California sentenced a member of the notorious Riviera Maya Gang that skimmed ATM machines, cloned people’s credit cards and withdrew millions from them to more than seven years in prison and his wife to more than four, court officials confirmed to OCCRP on Thursday.

European rights lawyers have called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to open an investigation into the Turkish government’s alleged crimes against humanity, including torture and persecution, committed both on Turkish ground and abroad.

Pakistan’s media regulating body banned the airing of speeches and press conferences by former Prime Minister Imran Khan, claiming he is targeting state institutions and encouraging hatred. The move is being heavily criticized by human rights and freedom of speech advocates.

After last year's revelations concerning Credit Suisse having hosted funds of criminal or illicit origin, more data are surfacing about the bank’s problematic clients - this time it’s the head of a Russian criminal gang, allegedly close to the Russian president.