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US lawmakers warn Hong Kong becoming financial crime hub
Nov 26, 2024 (AFP)
The bipartisan US Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party called Monday on outgoing President Joe Biden's treasury secretary to reevaluate Hong Kong's u...
El Salvador troops target gangs in large-scale operation
Oct 28, 2024 (AFP)
Bukele said on social media that the goal was to "extract every last one" of the suspected gang members believed to be hiding in the 10 de Octubre area of San S...
Hungary's Orban says corks will pop if Trump wins US election
Oct 08, 2024 (AFP)
The nationalist leader -- whose country holds the EU's rotating presidency -- is a long-time supporter of the populist former US president. "We will open severa...
Pay up or move out: Drug gangs rob Ecuadorans of homes
Aug 05, 2024 (AFP)
The family recently got its home back after it was recovered by security forces in the city of Duran, which is battling a form of extortion which sees drug traf...
UN warns Iraq becoming major regional drug conduit
Jul 22, 2024 (AFP)
"Iraq has been experiencing a dramatic surge in drug trafficking and consumption for the past five years," according to a United Nations Office on Drugs and Cri...
Guns n' ganja: Weapons flood Catalonia's cannabis trade
Jul 12, 2024 (AFP)
Despite being armed to the teeth, this wasn't an anti-terror operation: they were raiding marijuana plantations -- which are increasingly run by gangs with seri...
China cracks down on money-changing syndicates in Macau
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
Macau, known as the Las Vegas of the East, is the only city in China where gambling is legal, but the mainland Chinese visitors who fuel the city's multibillion...
Spain, France bust million-euro-a-day money laundering network
Jul 05, 2024 (AFP)
Jointly run by France's anti-fraud squad and the Spanish police with Europol's support, the investigation began in February 2021 when French customs agents foun...
Italy says seizes six tonnes of drug 'precursors' from China
Jul 01, 2024 (AFP)
Italy's financial police said two shipments contained enough so-called "drug precursors" to produce more than 63 million MDMA pills, the synthetic drug known as...
Chinese smuggled into Italy in luxury cars, police say
Jun 26, 2024 (AFP)
The smugglers had the migrants pose as "unsuspecting Asian citizens, well-dressed, with little luggage, travelling in powerful and expensive cars, driven by Chi...
Chinese 'underground bankers' launder Sinaloa drug money: US
Jun 19, 2024 (AFP)
An indictment unsealed in California charged 24 defendants with conspiracy to distribute cocaine and methamphetamine and money laundering offenses. Drug Enforce...
Jordan says foils foreign state-backed arms smuggling
May 15, 2024 (AFP)
The official quoted by state news agency Petra said suspected members of the cell, who were Jordanians, were arrested when the weapons were seized at the end of...
Colombian rebels holding Amazon hostage in peace talks
Apr 24, 2024 (AFP)
By allowing or preventing logging in areas under their control, fighters of the now-defunct FARC who rejected a peace deal and remain in arms set the pace of de...
Hong Kong customs makes largest-ever gold smuggling bust
Apr 08, 2024 (AFP)
Melted and moulded into parts like motor cores, screws, and gears, the smuggled gold was intercepted last month in two air compressors that were sent by air fro...
Bodies of eight Chinese migrants found on beach in Mexico
Mar 30, 2024 (AFP)
The seven women and a man were aboard a boat operated by a Mexican that left Tapachula in Chiapas state, on the border with Guatemala, on Thursday, the prosecut...
Indian navy says intercepted hijacked vessel near Somalia
Mar 29, 2024 (AFP)
Two Indian vessels had approached the Iranian-flagged FV Al Kamar 786 around 165 kilometres (100 miles) southwest of the Yemeni island of Socotra, not far from ...
Ecuador mayor killed amid anti-gang state of emergency
Mar 24, 2024 (AFP)
Brigitte Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of coastal San Vicente, was found dead along with the municipality's communications director, Jairo Loor. During the earl...
French navy seizes 10.7 tonnes of cocaine off African coast
Mar 20, 2024 (AFP)
The operation off the west African coast last Thursday targeted a Brazilian-flagged boat measuring around twenty meters (66 feet). French authorities requested ...
California border patrol officers seize thousands of pounds of drugs this week
Feb 29, 2024 (UPI)
According to a statement Thursday, CBP officers at San Diego Field Office ports of entry seized a combined 554 pounds of cocaine, 229 pounds of fentanyl and 1,6...
Military abuse claims multiply as Ecuador fights gangs
Feb 28, 2024 (AFP)
The pair were stopped in Guayaquil, one of the most violent cities in a country where claims of abuses committed by the security forces are on the rise. Velasco...
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