A U.S. court charged a China-based representative of North Korea's Foreign Trade Bank with two counts related to laundering illicit crypto proceeds for the benefit of the North Korean nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office.
A New York lawyer pleaded guilty Tuesday to his role in a multi-million dollar money laundering scheme, engineered to benefit his client, a sanctioned Russian oligarch.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner and a key player on the battlefields of Ukraine, has offered to mediate between Sudan's warring generals, whose fight for power has pushed the country into what now appears to be a full-blown civil war.
The U.N. has said that insecurity in Haiti has reached “alarming levels” due to gang violence, which has resulted in 70 deaths and 40 injuries between April 14 and 19.
Mexico's naval and customs officers have seized nearly nine tons of liquid methamphetamine hidden in tequila bottles that were ready to be shipped abroad, the Secretariat of the Navy announced.
The United Kingdom has sanctioned five Russian officials for their involvement in the poisoning attempt and the detention of Vladimir Kara-Murza, a Russian journalist, opposition politician, human rights campaigner, and one of the Kremlin's most vocal opponents.
The United States has extradited Alejandro Toledo, Peru’s former president, who will now face trial in his home country for bribery related to the Brazilian construction company Odebrecht.
More than 300 foreign correspondents from 22 countries called on Russian authorities on Monday to immediately release imprisoned Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reporter Evan Gershkovich, a U.S. national.
The U.S. Treasury has announced new sanctions against a money-laundering network engaged in trading diamonds and luxury goods, allegedly for the benefit of Nazem Said Ahmad, a Lebanon-based art collector and gallerist who was in 2019 designated as a key Hezbollah financier.
Credit Suisse Group, a troubled Swiss bank, denied accusations made by U.S. senators of restricting the scope of an internal probe into Nazi-linked accounts demanded by the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC) three years ago.