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The U.S. Treasury’s financial watchdog fined a record $125 million penalty Monday against UBS Financial Services Inc. for "willful" anti-money laundering violations, including failing to monitor over $10 billion in foreign currency wires and ignoring red flags on high-risk clients.

The historic conviction marks the fall of one of the world’s last original drug lords, leaving the powerful Sinaloa Cartel facing a massive internal succession battle.

A Mexican cartel leader who helped shape the modern illegal drug trade and has agreed to one of the largest criminal forfeitures in US legal history is set to be sentenced to life in prison on Monday.

The DEA fears criminal gangs are targeting football fans visiting the United States with counterfeit pills containing the powerful synthetic opioids.

Ikon Midstream, a Houston-based petroleum trader whose offices were raided last month by U.S. authorities, is under investigation in Mexico in connection with fuel smuggling

The Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful cartel leader and one of the United States’ most wanted fugitives, marking a significant victory while cartel members responded with a wave of violence across the country.

Alleged trafficker Zhi Dong Zhang escaped through a tunnel in Mexico before flying to Cuba and reportedly to Russia, but now he finds himself on trial in a Brooklyn courtroom.

On a cool cloudless morning at the break of dawn last December, authorities spotted two speed boats carrying a number of large packages at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in southwest Spain.

Democrats have labeled the Trump administration’s decision to remove export restrictions on American-made firearms as “a gift to violent cartels and drug traffickers.”

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned the Los Mayos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel, including the leader of its armed wing, Juan Jose Ponce Felix, known as “El Ruso.”

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When Mexico sent 26 high-profile suspected cartel members on a plane to the U.S. this month to face charges including drug trafficking and money laundering, they did not use normal extradition proceedings. Instead, the suspects were expelled under a national security law.

Mexico extradited 26 alleged members of the CJNG and Sinaloa cartels to the United States, with President Claudia Sheinbaum insisting the move was a sovereign decision amid growing pressure from Washington to crack down on drug trafficking.

European authorities dismantle a meth network linked to Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel and gangs in Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.

Footage released by police in the Mexican state of Tabasco show the moment sledgehammer-wielding officers attempt to smash through the walls of a teen’s concrete tomb.

The network reeled in monthly profits of up to 18 million Ukrainian hryvnia ($431,923) from the production and selling of 60 kg of amphetamine to 18 drug labs nation-wide.

Sporting gloves and a red ribbon to ward off evil, Ecuadoran police raiding a drug den apprehensively inspect an altar to Santa Muerte -- a Mexican "death saint" adopted by local gangs as their own talisman.

Mexican drug cartels are readying terrifying plans to strike back at US Border Patrol agents as President Donald Trump ramps up his crackdown on immigration.

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This is the moment Mexican cartel gangsters opened fire on US Border Patrol along the southern border.

Authorities in Mexico are offering state protection to famed regional Mexican singer Natanael Cano and other artists after a ruthless drug cartel...

The abduction of a Mexican community activist who campaigned against an iron ore mine owned by New York-listed Ternium has shone a light on how local cartels benefit from the presence of mining companies in the region.