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50 police chiefs have signed an open letter which has called on Andy Burnham to block the release of two of PC Andrew Harper’s killers - and implored the Prime Minister to bring in stronger protections for victims.

Gardaí have arrested one man after around €122,400 worth of cocaine and cannabis was seized by authorities.

The eldest daughter of a garda charged with rape and child cruelty has said the family home had ‘an atmosphere of violence and threats” and it felt like living in a military barracks growing up.

Europol says law enforcement has pushed many of the European Union’s most threatening criminal networks off its current watchlist, but organized crime continues to regenerate, with hundreds of new networks identified since 2024.

Media outlets have published a photograph of Ilya Traber at the grave of Dagestan crime boss Abakar Darbishev. In the image, he sits on a bench in a leather jacket next to influential businessman “Sanya Kaliningradsky.”

Millions of voters, deeply traumatized by a legacy of violence and political corruption, will head to the polls on Sunday to decide Colombia’s razor-thin presidential race between a progressive mediator and a far-right defense lawyer.

Italian authorities have dismantled a major underground illegal bank that moved up to 100 million euros ($116 million) annually to finance operations for domestic and international drug traffickers and organized crime syndicates, police announced Monday.

The tricks of the jail jargon Fenya were once used to bewilder guards in Stalin’s Gulags. Now they are being used by Russian cyber-criminals.

Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said social media firms “had their chance” to self-regulate as new data reveals that thousands of criminal offenses have been linked to Snapchat in the last five years.

After journalistic investigations, Oleksandr Orlovskyi began an information cleanup: how the "crypto guru" hides the schemes of Financial Freedom Academy.

How the Head of the “Delovaya Rossiya” Subcommittee Engineered the Arrest of a Rosneft Consultant.

Prominent American playwright and actor, Jeremy O. Harris, known for his Tony-nominated “Slave Play,” was arrested in Japan on suspicion of smuggling the psychedelic drug ecstasy, officials said Saturday.

The move underscores years of forced transfers amid growing international concern over Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

Shipping containers sent by Noboa Trading Co. have been caught up in huge drug shipments sent from Ecuador to the Balkans.

Three years have passed since the name of the well-known plastic surgeon Vardan Khachatryan became the center of a scandal involving the rape of his patients.

Mikhail Fridman, one of Russia’s wealthiest oligarchs, is using obscure investor-state arbitration mechanisms to challenge sanctions imposed after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The office of the Swiss attorney general announced on Monday that it charged a compliance officer employed by the former bank Credit Suisse SA, now part of UBS SA, with money laundering.

Mothers escaping domestic violence who retain their children abroad without consent would be criminalized for the first time under a new law.

Murdered 10-year-old Sara Sharif was "failed by the safeguarding system" in multiple ways throughout her short life, according to a review which said her father’s domestic abuse had been overlooked and underestimated.

The London art gallery Hauser & Wirth, where Princess Eugenie of York — daughter of Prince Andrew and granddaughter of the late Queen Elizabeth II — serves as a director, has been accused of violating UK sanctions against Russia.

Polish prosecutors are seeking to charge Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro with misusing public funds and purchasing Israeli spyware Pegasus, allegedly to target opposition politicians.