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German man pleads guilty to moving 33 million euros through fraudulently opened banks accounts while already serving a suspended prison sentence for handling millions taken from scam victims.

At least one person has died and five others are injured after a knifeman went on a stabbing rampage in Germany, according to local media.

When investigators opened a case into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvia’s ABLV Bank, it initially looked like a textbook operation: coordinated arrests, carefully timed media leaks, and firm public statements about breaking up an international criminal network.

Two children aged four and two have been found dead in their family’s car in south-eastern France, the local prosecutor said, as a large swathe of western Europe suffers a ferocious heatwave forecast to shatter absolute temperature records.

In 2023 and 2024, over $5 million worth of European metalworking machinery was delivered to two significant Russian defense companies despite strict European Union sanctions, according to trade data.

The country’s defense ministry has asked weapons startups for missile options as it looks to expand its own deep-strike arsenal.

The environmental damage bill racked up by the highest-consuming 10% of the world’s population has reached up to $5.7tn a year – larger than the economy of every country except the US and China, a study has found.

Western Europeans believe crime is rising in their country, according to a survey, despite long-term overall crime rates falling across the region since the mid-1990s.

As Western sanctions attempt to choke off Russia from international trade, payment brokers are advertising services on Telegram to move funds through layered intermediaries.

Lenders poured money into a British caravan empire and made its founder very rich. They’re wondering where it all went.

Singer Bonnie Tyler has woken up from an induced coma in Portugal after reportedly suffering a heart attack.

Sir Keir Starmer welcomed the US-Iran peace deal as a “hugely important step forward in ending the war” as he stressed that the Strait of Hormuz must remain “fully and permanently open”.

Vile Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner has said he “f***ing hates” the toddler for wrecking his life.

Police scrapped Christian Brueckner’s 24-hour police surveillance today sparking fears he might finally disappear.

When the investigation into the laundering of tens of millions of euros through Latvian ABLV Bank was launched, it appeared to follow a familiar law enforcement script

As the probe into the laundering of tens of millions of euros via Latvia’s ABLV Bank got underway, it initially appeared to be a standard European law enforcement operation—marked by coordinated arrests, media briefings, and confident claims of having “dismantled an international criminal network.”

Ahead of Armenia’s June 7 parliamentary elections, the country has faced an unprecedented wave of Kremlin-backed disinformation.

The 67-year-old had been on the run since the 90s when the gang, also known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, disbanded.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Hamburg (Germany), 16 searches were carried out yesterday in France, Germany, Italy, and Poland in an investigation into organized VAT fraud involving the trade of small electronic goods.

At least 118 people have died in an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, with more than 390 suspected cases reported, according to local officials.

The police and customs officers had been waiting for hours. Parked outside the Radisson Blu Senator Hotel in the northern German city of Lübeck, they sat in silence, engines off, watching the entrance.

German prosecutors have charged a pediatrician with 130 counts of sexual abuse, including the rape of children, most of them in his care, in a case that has caused shock and prompted clinics to increase safeguards.

As investigations intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly began efforts to remove journalistic reports about alleged fraud schemes linked to him from the internet, which has drawn renewed attention to the materials that continue to circulate in public sources.

At the request of the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Frankfurt (Germany), eight searches were carried out and one individual was arrested yesterday on suspicion of orchestrating a €18 million VAT carousel fraud through the sale of small electronic goods.

The name of Timur Rokhlin, an investor in the Rocket delivery service, has surfaced in a major international fraud investigation involving tens of millions of euros, while parts of the case and related details appear to be quietly fading from public view.