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Some £4 million in cash and a kilo of cocaine have been found stuffed inside shopping bags in south London.

A specialist British law enforcement team has put 108 organized crime figures behind bars for a combined 851 years and seized drugs worth up to $93.6 million since 2021, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced.

A jet ski, four vehicles and Rolex watches were among items seized by police during a drugs raid in Speke.

A French mayor was placed under police protection and a social media influencer’s car was torched in a series of violent incidents linked to Marseille’s “DZ Mafia.” The group denied any involvement.

A Montenegrin court handed down a 40-year prison sentence in absentia and steep financial penalties to the fugitive leader of the notorious Kavač criminal clan for aggravated murder and other charges.

A man has been jailed for 12 years after more than 2,000 litres of gamma butyrolactone (GBL), a date rape drug, were found in a storage container rented by him, police have said.

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.

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.

Police are warning the public to call 999 if they see a drug dealer hiding out after fleeing a prison.

Scams across East and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand caused estimated losses of as much as $114.1 billion in 2025, according to a U.N. report examining the infrastructure shared by criminal networks.

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.

Leaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers.

A former Melbourne private schoolboy has been exposed as an alleged major supplier of cocaine to one of Melbourne’s wealthiest suburbs.

A fugitive has been arrested in Thailand after hacking into a police database in an attempt to delete his criminal record, cyber-crime investigators said.

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.

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

A woman whose sister was left brain dead after taking super-strength cocaine has sent an urgent warning to users as crime gangs flood UK streets with lethal coke which is 90% pure.

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

U.S.-Mexico tensions are escalating into a major confrontation over President Claudia Sheinbaum’s refusal to arrest Mexican officials indicted in the U.S. for drug corruption, adding to existing strain over threats of unilateral strikes against cartels.

Mexicoextradited a United States citizen accused of orchestrating a sophisticated, cross-border drug smuggling operation through a subterranean railway tunnel, the Department of Justice announced.

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Several hundred Wagner fighters remain based along the upper Oubangui River in the Central African Republic, where they run a drug trade built around tramadol, an opioid painkiller that becomes a potent stimulant at high doses.

Can “El Mayo” avoid the same supermax fate as his former business partner “El Chapo”?

The United States is this week upping the multimillion-dollar rewards it has on the heads of the remaining leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel’s Chapitos faction, just as prosecutors are targeting the Mexican politicians who allegedly enabled the group.

Spanish and Dutch authorities have detained 15 suspects and seized nearly a metric ton of MDMA in what officials called the largest bust of the synthetic drug in European history.