Australian lawmakers have proposed a bill that would force large multinational companies operating in the country to disclose their foreign earnings and tax payments. If passed, the law would be a major hit against the proliferation of the use of tax havens for evading financial requirements in Australia.

The elderly have long been a choice target of cyber criminals who often strip them of life savings and other cash reserves. In Australia criminals have taken it to a new level: offering their victims to get their money back by serving as drug mules.

The Australian Federal Police launched a unit dedicated to the tracing and seizure of cryptocurrency related to illicit activities, such as money laundering and offshoring, the Australian Financial Review reported on Monday.

Australian police say they arrested a 24-year-old man for allegedly creating and selling hacking tool used by domestic violence perpetrators and child sex offenders to spy on unsuspecting victims.

A program launched a month ago and aimed to protect the critically endangered Hawksbill turtle is alreadybearing fruit as it has already helped to identify five major poaching hot spots, the environmental watchdogMongabay reported this on Monday.

Australia sanctioned 39 Russians over their alleged links to corruption uncovered by Ukrainian-born Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky as well as those who appear to have been involved in his mistreatment and death in a Moscow prison in 2009.

Two women were charged with trying to launder about US$700.000 in criminal proceeds on behalf of a drug dealer and member of an outlaw motorcycle gang, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) reported on Friday.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) have arrested two Malaysian nationals in the western Sydney area in connection with a money-laundering operation that worked through cryptocurrency exchanges. The AFP seized nearly a quarter-million US dollars in cash in the case.

Australian authorities say they prevented cyber criminals from stealing over US$17 million from the country’s pension funds and launched a series of actions to stop further offshore money transfers, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) reported on Monday.

Police in Australia, Europe and the U.S. arrested 150 suspected Darknet drug traffickers in a joint operation that lasted for 10 months, the Department of Justice reported last week.

A 36-year-old Australian suspected of being connected to two outlaw motorcycle gangs and believed to have been laundering money will have to forfeit about US$1.3 million to the Commonwealth, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said on Sunday.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) warned on Wednesday of scammers pretending to be police officers when calling or sending emails to potential victims, claiming their bank accounts were tampered with and then tricking them into sending money to special bank accounts they have set up.

Following a two week trial, former Olympic kayaker Nathan Baggaley and his brother, Dru Baggaley, were formally sentenced on Tuesday to 25 and 28 years in prison respectively. They were found guilty in April by a Brisbane Supreme Court jury for attempting to import more than US$152 million worth of cocaine. 

Secret meetings or messages between politicians and lobbyists would be banned in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) as part of a series of reform recommendations being pushed by the state’s anti-corruption commission.

The rapid growth of the incarcerated population in Victoria, Australia, combined with rampant abuse of power by staff has led to “significant corruption risks” in prisons, said an anti-corruption report published last week.

The transport business is often hijacked by organized crime – in particular the highly lucrative vehicle-towing industry – which gangs infiltrate across the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa through violence, intimidation and corruption, the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime warned.

Although the FBI is trying to discourage ransomware payments to hacking groups, global meat supplier JBS said it paid US$11 million in Bitcoin in response to the May 30 REvil cyberattack which shut down the company’s North American and Australian systems.

Australian senators are calling for a major review of Australia’s border security measures after media revealed details from a leaked confidential report from Australian intelligence that said organized crime has infiltrated the country’s main airline, Qantas.

The three largest casino operators in Australia announced on Monday that they are under federal scrutiny for possible breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.

A criminal organization allegedly duped Iranian nationals living in Australia into becoming drug mules who received and stored liquid methamphetamine before unknowingly handing it off to be distributed, according to apress release by the Australian Federal Police (AFP).