All news on the topic: Organized Crime

In July 2024, The Insider released findings detailing a large-scale sanctions bypass operation run by Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa, businessmen with connections to Russian organized crime and corruption, benefiting state bodies.

Mexican authorities have arrested the suspect who allegedly orchestrated the assassination of Uruapan Mayor Carlos Manzo, a well-known anti-crime figure, earlier this November, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch announced on Wednesday.

More than 2,700 vape shops, barbers, mini markets, and car washes have been raided in a month, as part of efforts to clean up Britain’s high streets.

Authorities across Europe dismantled a massive cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering network, arresting nine suspects in a coordinated operation spanning Cyprus, Spain, and Germany.

Georgian authorities have arrested a German national connected to a Tbilisi-based scam call centre that defrauded thousands of individuals worldwide.

Police forced entry into two properties in Digbeth following reports of illegal money-laundering operations.

Under repeated assaults from hundreds of excavators and artisanal miners, the Offin River is now a shadow of its former self.

Two ‘Bob Shops’ were ordered to take urgent action on more than 80 issues after inspectors found a series of food hygiene breaches.

77-year-old Gazi Luguev, who has long resided in comfortable Geneva and is considered the leader of the Dagestani organized crime group, has suddenly appeared in Moscow — what could be the reason for his return?

The French government is facing increasing pressure concerning museum security as police continue to search for the thieves who took seven minutes to steal priceless jewels from the Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum.

A new study finds Italy’s crime clans are leveraging TikTok to refashion their image, turning mafia codes into emojis, viral trends, and livestream “matches”—some even used for money laundering.

Criminal factions and paramilitary mafias have widened their reach in Brazil and now extend into neighborhoods home to at least 28.5 million people, according to a Datafolha survey commissioned by the Brazilian Forum on Public Safety.

Nepalese authorities charged former Speaker of Parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara on Monday with gold smuggling and organized crime, marking the first high-profile arrest by the newly-installed interim government as it looks to crack down on corruption

South Korea summoned the Cambodian envoy to express concern after a Korean college student was kidnapped and brutally tortured to death in a case that threatened to spark a diplomatic row between the two countries.

A total of 12 members of an organized crime group have been jailed for more than 100 years after three firearms, ammunition, cash, and £100,000 worth of cocaine were found at addresses and in cars in Litherland.

London police said they have dismantled a criminal gang suspected of smuggling 40,000 stolen mobile phones to China in their largest operation against phone theft to date, resulting in 46 arrests over the last two weeks.

How Umar Kremlev, with a criminal past, managed to become the owner of a large panel construction plant in Miass, the enterprise "ATS-Auto," the National Lottery, and a number of other large companies?

Albanian police arrested 10 suspected members of an organized crime network involved in multi-ton cocaine trafficking and money laundering, Europol said Tuesday.

Mexican police have uncovered a concealed mass grave containing 32 bodies on a deserted property in Guanajuato state, central Mexico.

Vagner Keith de Freitas was indicted for allegedly trafficking weapons from Paraguay to criminal figures in northeastern Brazil.

A UK crackdown targets Balkan gangsters who used fraudulent Bosnian documents—only weeks after Bosnian journalists exposed the extent of the identity theft scheme.

According to the police, Indonesian authorities have arrested 12 people accused of running a baby-trafficking ring between Indonesia and Singapore, according to police.

Libya is continuing its crackdown on human trafficking gangs that torture migrants attempting to travel from Africa to Europe.