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Germany: Over 100 searches and seven arrests in probe into €48 million VAT fraud

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/germany-over-100-searches-and-seven-arrests-probe-eu48-million-vat-fraud

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Current and Former National Basketball Association Players and Four Other Individuals Charged in Widespread Sports Betting and Money Laundering Conspiracy

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/current-and-former-national-basketball-association-players-and-four-other-individuals

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Malta: EPPO charges suspect with defrauding EU funds for young farmers

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/malta-eppo-charges-suspect-defrauding-eu-funds-young-farmers

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From CLICK to CRIME: Investigating intellectual property crime in the digital age

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/click-to-crime-investigating-intellectual-property-crime-in-digital-age

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‘The police weren’t interested’: What’s driving the rise in private prosecutions?

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/23/the-police-werent-interested-whats-driving-the-rise-in-private-prosecutions

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Pier Pressure: The Distant Water Squid Fleet Shifts to Chile

Read here: https://c4ads.org/commentary/pier-pressure/

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Russia’s Grain Smuggling Fleet Continues Undeterred

Read here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10/23/russias-grain-smuggling-fleet-continues-undeterred/

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Spanish court orders ex-UN official extradited to US in bribery case

Read here: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/spanish-court-orders-ex-un-150950965.html

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Greece: EPPO arrests 37 members of organised criminal group involved in large-scale agricultural funding fraud and money laundering

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/greece-eppo-arrests-37-members-organised-criminal-group-involved-large-scale

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Match fixing in tennis stopped with Eurojust’s support

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/match-fixing-tennis-stopped-eurojusts-support

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Toxic Gold: the heavy toll of Ghana’s illegal gold rush

Read here: https://forbiddenstories.org/projects_posts/toxic-gold/

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SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers

Read here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/starlink-blocks-2500-dishes-allegedly-used-by-myanmars-notorious-scam-centers/

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Our New Report on the Trafficking of East Africans into Cyber-Scam Operations

Read here: https://www.freedomcollaborative.org/latest/our-new-report-on-the-trafficking-of-east-africans-into-cyber-scam-operations

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How the EU Mistakenly Sanctioned a Decoy Company When it Targeted a Business in Belarus

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/how-the-eu-mistakenly-sanctioned-decoy-company-when-it-targeted-a-business-in-belarus

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Six people sentenced for part in a £20 million fraud against the taxpayer

Read here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/six-people-sentenced-part-ps20-million-fraud-against-taxpayer

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Bulgaria: Underwater searches show that EU-funded mussel farm is just sand

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/bulgaria-underwater-searches-show-eu-funded-mussel-farm-just-sand

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Bulgaria: EPPO conducts searches in suspected procurement fraud case related to Plovdiv’s green space project

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/bulgaria-eppo-conducts-searches-suspected-procurement-fraud-case-related-to-plovdivs

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KYB vendor Kyckr sacked senior leaders who identified technical issues causing 72% failure rate

Read here: https://www.compliancecorylated.com/news/kyb-vendor-kyckr-sacked-senior-leaders-who-identified-technical-issues-causing-72-failure-rate/

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The Nexus Between Cybercrime and Corruption

Read here: https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2025/2025.10.21_The_Nexus_Between_Cybercrime_and_Corruption.pdf

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Thousands detained as Myanmar military raids notorious KK park scam compound

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/21/myanmar-kk-park-raid-scam-cybercrime-centre-compound

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Follow the money: Rethinking geographical risk assessment in money laundering

Read here: https://taxjustice.net/2025/10/21/follow-the-money-rethinking-geographical-risk-assessment-in-money-laundering/

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Do the right thing: Part II

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/speeches/do-right-thing-part-ii

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Myanmar: Military Raids Scam Center, Detains Over 2,000 Suspects

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/myanmar-military-raids-scam-center-detains-over-2000-suspects

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Nigeria Deports 192 Foreign Cybercrime Suspects

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/nigeria-deports-192-foreign-nationals-over-global-cybercrime-network

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Data Dealers and Bomb Plots: Inside the Netherlands’s Shadowy Market for Stolen Data

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/data-dealers-and-bomb-plots-inside-the-netherlandss-shadow-market-for-stolen-data

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Switzerland keeps profits derived from foreign bribery. It shouldn’t

Read here: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/foreign-affairs/switzerland-keeps-profits-derived-from-foreign-bribery-it-shouldnt/90177401

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Financial crime oversight in corporate finance firms shows gaps, says FCA

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/news/press-releases/gaps-financial-crime-oversight-corporate-finance-firms

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How BBC secret filming exposed a £28m timeshare fraud

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c33pelk6pmlo

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Cybercrime-as-a-service takedown: 7 arrested

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/cybercrime-service-takedown-7-arrested

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Dividend tax loophole costs the Netherlands over 2.2 billion euros per year

Read here: https://www.somo.nl/dividend-tax-loophole-costs-the-netherlands-over-2-billion-euros-per-year/

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Ruthless timeshare fraud robbed elderly of savings

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgvxg47gl6o

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Alleged Member of ‘Notorious’ Cambodian Scam Network Bought Luxury Dubai Properties

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/scoop/alleged-member-of-notorious-cambodian-scam-network-bought-luxury-dubai-properties

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The EBA finds that white labelling is widely used in banking and payments

Read here: https://www.eba.europa.eu/publications-and-media/press-releases/eba-finds-white-labelling-widely-used-banking-and-payments

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Ships Accused of Stealing Ukrainian Grain Linked to Assad Regime Front

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/ships-accused-of-stealing-ukrainian-grain-linked-to-assad-regime-front

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Combating romance fraud – Prevention, detection and supporting victims

Read here: https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/multi-firm-reviews/combating-romance-fraud-prevention-detection-and-supporting-victims

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Europe’s borders go digital

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europe’s-borders-go-digital

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Croatia: Four arrested on suspicion of abuse of position and authority in investigation involving General Public Health Clinic Zagreb

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/croatia-four-arrested-suspicion-abuse-position-and-authority-investigation-involving

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Six organised criminal gangsters convicted for large scale money laundering inside DVD cases

Read here: https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/six-organised-criminal-gangsters-convicted-large-scale-money-laundering-inside-dvd-cases

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Croatia: Six individuals and one company convicted of subsidy fraud and document forgery involving pig farming

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/croatia-six-individuals-and-one-company-convicted-subsidy-fraud-and-document-forgery

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Czechia: Large-scale VAT fraud scheme involving electronics trade uncovered

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/czechia-large-scale-vat-fraud-scheme-involving-electronics-trade-uncovered

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