More than a ton of oysters, clams, and Pacific geoducks (a very large saltwater clam) were seized in Argentina’s coastal province of Rio Negro, authorities reported Saturday.

Lebanon’s pioneering investigative journalist Riad Kobaissi, who collaborated with OCCRP on several recent top-level probes into corruption and miscarriage of justice, has won 2023’s Knight International Journalism Award.

Cyprus’s Supreme Court overturned a decision to extradite mining magnate Beny Steinmetz to Romania on Friday, ruling that he faced a risk of inhumane treatment if sent to jail there to serve a five-year sentence in a corruption case.

Tech giants, law enforcement agencies, and charities from around the world have pledged to fight against AI-generated child sexual abuse material, which is increasingly proliferated on dark web forums.

Pope Francis blessed on Monday the decision of a group of Italian women to leave their mafia families and assured them during a meeting on Monday that they are not alone.

Taiwan’s Finance Ministry said it has been demanding reforms at the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI), which was exposed by OCCRP for funding projects that facilitated corruption and authoritarianism.

The United Kingdom is intensifying its efforts to counter threats from private military companies (PMCs), notably the infamous Wagner group associated with the late Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, and is establishing a cross-government taskforce that will collaborate with international partners.

Venezuelan authorities claim to have regained control over the third prison in the country that was seized by a criminal group. However, a non-governmental organization alleges that this was accomplished through an agreement with gang leaders who were permitted to leave the premises, along with their cows.

The recent killing of Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah in Lebanon, along with the injury of other journalists, was not an accident but a deliberate act, according to the press freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

The Philippine Government has initiated an inquiry into its own police force following a significant operation targeting an online gaming firm that led to the rescue of over 700 victims of forced labor and human trafficking. Government officials believe it would not have been possible to operate such a business without the police's knowledge.