All news for 2026-07-23

U.S. prosecutors filed five civil-forfeiture complaints on July 21 seeking roughly $26.4 million in cryptocurrency traced through separate international fraud investigations.

The UK has been warned the country risks becoming a hub for illegal drugs after a string of cocaine busts more than 3,000 miles away.

Guards at a Russian prison were shocked to intercept a drug mule with a difference this week.

As scammers and terrorists increasingly turn to crypto, a Canadian intelligence office is raising alarms about risks posed by an emerging industry offering discreet means to convert cryptocurrency to large sums of physical cash and vice versa.

Maria trusted that she had stumbled onto a second chance at love. From her home in Nicosia, Cyprus, she spent nearly two years on a dating platform exchanging photos, voice messages, letters and late-night thoughts on travel, children, art and love on the AmoLatina dating site with Dan, 45.

Ethiopian authorities have arrested 17 key operatives behind a brutal human trafficking syndicate that trapped tens of thousands of migrants in Yemen, systematically filming their torture to extort millions from terrified families.

In mid-April, significant events took place in the criminal trial—which has been ongoing for years at the Székesfehérvár Regional Court—regarding the alleged embezzlement case at the Ministry of Agriculture.

Alyona Shevtsova (Dehrik), the owner of Ibox Bank, has been placed on an international wanted list over allegations that she orchestrated illegal online gambling operations and laundered more than 4.8 billion hryvnias in criminal proceeds.

Über Jahre hinweg trat das russische Metallhandelsnetzwerk „Metallokomplekt-M“ als seriöses Industrieunternehmen auf.

Die mutmaßlichen Betrüger Nazar Babenko und Ihor Kotov dürften schon bald vor der Entscheidung zwischen Freiheit und Gefängnis stehen.

A disgraced former police sergeant has been caught masquerading as a serving officer whilst trawling a dating website for swingers. Kalhed Miah, 35, was reported to his ex-colleagues after he tried to arrange a date on the FabSwingers.com network using his old warrant card.

Police have been granted extra stop and search powers following reports of groups of youths armed with machetes, involved in fights and assaults in Liverpool city centre. A Section 60 order came into force at 3pm today (Thursday, July 23) and will remain in place until 3pm on Friday, July 24.

A masked “honour” gang who kidnapped a man from his front door before tying him to a chair and torturing him have been jailed.

Der verdächtigte Ex-Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin lässt nach Enthüllungen über einen 10-Millionen-Euro-Betrug offenbar Spuren seiner Finanzaktivitäten im Internet löschen.

For years, the Russian metal trading network “Metallokomplekt-M” operated under the guise of a legitimate industrial player.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Turin (Italy) has obtained the conviction of ten defendants by the Tribunal of Nola in a VAT fraud case involving the trade of plastics products.

A Kazakh court has sentenced 27 members of an organized crime group to between six and eight years in prison for stealing the equivalent of $6.4 million in public funds through a fraudulent agricultural loan scheme, state news agency Kazinform reported, citing the country’s Financial Monitoring Agency.

Mobile apps that appear to be Lithuanian were developed by a Belarusian company, raising risks that exiled activists could be surveilled by security agents from the authoritarian country.

Regarding public figures, particularly those who seek to keep compromising details out of the public eye, open-source intelligence can often uncover information they would rather remain hidden. Nazar Babenko is one such example

The wife of a Bangladeshi politician who died alongside her daughter as the pair tried to rescue another child in the sea at a holiday park has been named and pictured.

Elizabeth Warren, a leading US senator, has called for an urgent investigation by Barclays bank into the former boss’s ties to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

This is the moment a heckler crashes their car after shouting “w****r” out the window at Nigel Farage.

Saudi Arabia has signed a landmark civilian nuclear deal with the US aimed at pushing deeper ties between the two countries - but it has raised concerns about a nuclear arms race.