Dec 07 2025
The UN General Assembly has called on Russia to return Ukrainian children forcibly taken to Russia. The resolution passed with 91 votes in favor, 12 against, and 57 abstentions. Russia rejected the resolution, with its ambassador, Maria Zabolotskaya, calling it a “particularly cynical lie.” The Ukrainian government says several hundred thousand children have been forcibly …
Dec 06 2025
Proposed legislation would make it easier to fire the head of the country’s public broadcaster. The proposal was submitted last month by Remigijus Žemaitaitis, who founded Nemunas Dawn in 2023. Journalists at Lithuanian National Television and Radio began holding moments of silence on air this week. They now plan to take their protest to the …
Dec 06 2025
Bankera’s founders appeared to siphon funds from investors, OCCRP and 15min revealed. Lithuanian authorities carried out more than 30 raids at companies associated with Bankera last week. Investigators are looking at possible “embezzlement of property,” according to 15min. Bankera’s founders acquired Pacific Private Bank (PPB) in Vanuatu, and moved millions of euros raised in a …
Dec 05 2025
Nomma Zarubina, 34, had her bail revoked and was ordered into pre-trial detention in an emergency hearing late on December 2. She was indicted in a U.S. federal court last year for allegedly lying to the FBI about her contact with an officer from Russia’s intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB) She was later …
Dec 05 2025
More than 20 humanitarian workers are set to stand trial in Greece on migrant-smuggling and money-laundering charges. If convicted, they face up to 20 years in prison. The charges concern the defendants’ work with the now-defence group. The Mytilene Court of Appeals on the Greek island of Lesvos is expected to hear the case on …
Dec 05 2025
Prosecutors say Credit Suisse allowed money laundering linked to Mozambique’s “tuna bonds” fraud. The fraud devastated the country’s economy in the 2010s. Prosecutors say a 2016 transfer of about $7.86 million should have triggered red flags. The bank failed to report it and later allowed most of the money to be moved to account, prosecutors …
Dec 05 2025
Antonino Vadalà was convicted in October 2024 for cocaine trafficking in a criminal organisation with ties to the ‘Ndrangheta Italian mafia group. His name had come up when Slovakian investigative journalist Jan Kuciak was looking into an agricultural subsidies fraud scheme. The killings sparked nationwide protests that eventually brought down the government of Prime Minister …
Dec 05 2025
The Red Command is Brazil’s oldest criminal organization. It is involved in drug and arms trafficking, bank robberies, kidnapping, and other crimes. Its members opened fire on the 2,500 officers involved in the operation. The Alemão and Penha complexes are among Rio’s largest favelas, home to more than 90,000 residents combined.. A videocaptures the sound …
Dec 05 2025
Prosecutors say Credit Suisse allowed money laundering linked to Mozambique’s “tuna bonds” fraud. The fraud devastated the country’s economy in the 2010s. Prosecutors say a 2016 transfer of about $7.86 million should have triggered red flags. The bank failed to report it and later allowed most of the money to be moved to account, prosecutors …
Oct 29 2025
Hong Kong Customs Service seized over 150 tonnes of donkey skins in a major operation intercepting two shipments. The shipments, intercepted on October 3 and October 7, also contained other smuggled goods, in total worth nearly $200 million. Donkey skin is used in so-called Ejiao, a traditional Chinese remedy made with the gelatin in donkey …