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US courts sentence a Malaysian businessman to 15 years behind bars for bribing Navy officials. Bribes included cash, prostitutes, liquor, and cigars.

Trump’s campaign was possibly one of the most extreme, with violent rhetoric and a profound sense of grievance, but he resonated with enough people to win

Malone Lam and co-conspirator exploited victim’s trust through fake support calls, extracting over $274 million in crypto.

For the first time, a US bank has admitted to helping criminal networks in Colombia launder hundreds of millions of dollars in dirty money, highlighting the fruits of a renewed push to target those aiding the region’s money launderers.

At least seven people have died after part of a ferry dock collapsed in Georgia’s Sapelo Island on Saturday, local authorities say.

The United States has sent a new anti-missile system to be operated by American troops on the ground in Israel.

It’s envisaged that planes accommodated at the base will reportedly include the F-15 Eagle, an all-weather fighter aircraft capable of dropping B61-12 nuclear gravity bombs.

Nearly 300,000 internal documents leaked from Steward Health Care to OCCRP show how a private equity firm, real estate investors and top executives drained billions from the hospital operator as it lurched towards bankruptcy and failed hospital patients.

A system set up to channel dollars from Iraqi oil sales to importers has been exploited by money launderers and militant groups for years. An OCCRP investigation shows how the fraud works in practice.

Donald Trump brought out Elon Musk during his return to the Pennsylvania fairgrounds, the site where he was nearly assassinated in July.

The Islamic Republic’s long shadow war with Israel is playing out in the West with a rise in alleged Iran-linked murder and kidnapping plots, often with the help of hired assassins.

US forces carried out strikes on 15 targets in areas of Yemen controlled by the Houthi rebels, the US military has confirmed.

A Cambodian tycoon and ruling party senator – who the U.S. recently sanctioned, citing links to human trafficking – had business relationships with alleged organized crime figures from China, company records show.

A U.S. judge has ordered a man to pay over US$36 million for his role in a forex and digital asset fraud scheme, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

In March 2023, a member of parliament publicly questioned whether a prominent short-seller had ties to Russia. Leaked records suggest that the question was planted by Audere International, a private intelligence firm conducting a smear campaign paid for by Steward Health Care.

Shaukat Ali, a Pakistani businessman who helped U.S.-based Steward Health Care secure a massive public contract in Malta, says he and his son were paid only normal consulting fees for their work. Leaked documents show they were promised much more.

The United States has released Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former Gulf Cartel leader who created the Zetas and ushered in the hyper-violent organized crime wars that have marked Mexico since the turn of the century.

Controversy and conflicting narratives persist around the arrests of two top Sinaloa Cartel leaders in the United States, raising questions about what led to the detentions and how the historic leadership blow may impact one of Mexico’s most powerful drug trafficking organizations.

Poland has extradited a Belarusian-Ukrainian cybercrime suspect to the United States, where he could face decades in prison for allegedly masterminding a global ransomware and wire fraud scheme under the alias “J.P. Morgan.”

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From Athens to Berlin, governments are coalescing around an idea to turbocharge the economy. If successful, it could be transformative ― but it’s a big if.

Opponents and supporters of Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro planned to rally on Tuesday as protests and clashes spread after a weekend election was awarded to the long-ruling socialist despite opposition claims of a landslide victory.

An Israeli private investigator wanted by the United States for allegedly carrying out a "hacking for hire" campaign appeared in a London court on Friday, ahead of his fight against extradition to the U.S. next year.

The family of a Syrian American psychologist who treated traumatized Syrians and disappeared while visiting relatives in Damascus has filed a complaint in a United States court against the Syrian Arab Republic for abducting, imprisoning, torturing, and killing him.