All news on the topic: Malaysia

The number of British nationals detained overseas on drug trafficking charges has surged more than fourfold over three years, official figures show, alongside a Government warning that penalties include life imprisonment and the death sentence.

Malaysian police dismantled a drug syndicate and seized $6.79 million worth of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, following a raid on a makeshift laboratory that left the group’s alleged ringleader dead.

A Malaysian court charged former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Thursday with failing to disclose his assets to the country’s anti-graft agency.

Forty-two QNet human trafficking victims have been rescued in Nigeria.

A Malaysian princess has wed a British motorsport figure in a celebration held at Kuala Lumpur’s Shangri-La Hotel.

A shocking lightning strike brought a football match to a devastating end after one player was killed and 12 others were injured during a tournament in Thailand.

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

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.

Female lawyer tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about alleged ‘escalation of attempts’ as second woman also speaks out

In June 2026, the Swiss Parliament approved the EFTA–Malaysia free trade agreement. Concerns had been raised early in the negotiations about the tariff reductions on palm oil that were ultimately adopted.

A notorious Syrian-Lebanese trafficker widely known as the “Captagon King,” has been released from a Lebanese prison after completing a seven-year sentence for drug manufacturing and trafficking. Judicial sources confirmed the release of Hassan Daqqou to Daraj, OCCRP’s Lebanese partner.

Cypriot authorities say alleged 1MDB scandal mastermind’s legal team did not oppose seizure of 6 million euro villa he bought as part of their country’s now-scrapped “golden passport” scheme.

Russian businessman Vadim Gurinov, known for longstanding ties to Kremlin-connected figures and sanctioned elites, allegedly used Singapore-based fintech startup Fingular to build an alternative financial ecosystem beyond Western oversight after the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine.

Vadim Gurinov, ein langjähriger Freund und Geschäftspartner sanktionierter Personen, gründete nur wenige Monate vor dem groß angelegten russischen Angriff auf die Ukraine in Singapur eine Onlinebank namens Fingular.

Safe sex could get more expensive if the Iran war continues to disrupt global supply chains, according to a new interview with the CEO of the world’s largest condom manufacturer.

Malaysian businessman Victor Chin Boon Long on Tuesday denounced a police raid on his home tied to an expanding investigation into alleged “corporate mafia” activities.

Indian health authorities are tackling a Nipah virus outbreak after five cases of the incurable disease were detected.

Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok, the artificial intelligence chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s xAI, after authorities said it was being misused to generate sexually explicit and non-consensual images.

Malaysian authorities have detained a former army chief and his two wives over alleged involvement in a cartel linked to military procurement contracts, state news agency Bernama reported on Thursday.

Imprisoned former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was found guilty on Friday following a corruption trial linked to the multibillion-dollar embezzlement of the 1MDB state investment fund.

Defense attorney Peter Zeidenberg said his client’s 14-year sentence was "completely disproportionate to the offense." Michel will appeal against his conviction and sentence, according to his lawyer.

Hundreds of people are feared dead after a migrant boat from Myanmar capsized near Malaysia.

UK authorities are trying to recover £16.2 million (US$21.7 million) from a Malaysian fixer at the centre of a massive bitcoin scam, a court was told Tuesday.

A woman in Malaysia won over $1.4m in a lottery after betting on digits from a missed spam call.

The confusion in the federal case against Cary Yan is the most recent development in a strange global scheming saga first revealed in a 2023 OCCRP investigation.