News and Blogs

Massive songbird seizure highlights Indonesia’s unrelenting illegal wildlife trade

Read here: https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/massive-songbird-seizure-highlights-indonesias-unrelenting-illegal-wildlife-trade/

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More than 100 women kept as ‘slaves’ on human egg farm

Read here: https://metro.co.uk/2025/02/13/100-women-kept-slaves-human-egg-farm-22549898/

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How Narco Money Could Influence the Presidential Elections in Honduras. Again.

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/narco-money-influence-2025-election-honduras/

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Delivering A Better-Informed Wildlife Trade

Read here: https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/long-read/delivering-a-better-informed-wildlife-trade

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Ohio-Based Supplier of Aircraft Parts and Three Employees Charged for Illicit Export Scheme Involving Russia

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ohio-based-supplier-aircraft-parts-and-three-employees-charged-illicit-export-scheme

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The Hunt for Malaysia’s Elusive Wildlife Trafficker

Read here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/02/11/the-hunt-for-malaysias-elusive-wildlife-trafficker/

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Sanctioned nuclear icebreakers help deliver Russian gas to Shell, investigation reveals

Read here: https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/sanctioned-nuclear-icebreakers-help-deliver-russian-gas-to-shell-investigation-reveals/

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Crackdown on Narcos Reveals Alleged Lithuanian Trafficking Group

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/crackdown-on-narcos-reveals-alleged-lithuanian-trafficking-group

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Almost half of 8 to 17-year-olds have been scammed online

Read here: https://saferinternet.org.uk/blog/almost-half-of-8-to-17-year-olds-have-been-scammed-online

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When child’s play turns to child’s pay: Almost one million British children were scammed online in the last year

Read here: https://www.vodafone.co.uk/newscentre/press-release/almost-one-million-british-children-scammed-online-last-year/

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MONEYVAL calls on Guernsey to step up efforts against money laundering

Read here: https://www.coe.int/en/web/moneyval/-/moneyval-calls-on-guernsey-to-step-up-efforts-against-money-laundering

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Key figures behind Phobos and 8Base ransomware arrested in international cybercrime crackdown

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/key-figures-behind-phobos-and-8base-ransomware-arrested-in-international-cybercrime-crackdown

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EU sanctions against Russia 2025: State of play, perspectives and challenges

Read here: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document/EPRS_BRI(2025)767243

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Romania and Netherlands set up joint investigation team into theft of precious historic art from Dutch museum

Read here: https://www.eurojust.europa.eu/news/romania-and-netherlands-set-joint-investigation-team-theft-precious-historic-art-dutch-museum

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Bulgaria: Contractor indicted in €4.5 million fraud involving trolleybus for the municipality of Vratsa

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/bulgaria-contractor-indicted-eu45-million-fraud-involving-trolleybus-municipality-vratsa

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How ‘Brazilian Walter White’ Took Meth Production to São Paulo

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/how-walter-white-took-meth-production-to-sao-paulo/

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Russian Company Behind Egypt Wheat Cargo Had History of Selling ‘Stolen’ Ukraine Grain

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/scoop/russian-company-behind-egypt-wheat-cargo-had-history-of-selling-stolen-ukraine-grain

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Casinos, high-rises and fraud: The BBC visits a bizarre city built on scams

Read here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c04nx1vnw17o

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BVI Defends Its Record And Commitment To Global Financial Services Regulation

Read here: https://bvi.org.uk/bvi-defends-its-record-and-commitment-to-global-financial-services-regulation/

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Canadian Businessman Sentenced for Obstruction of Justice for Hiding and Laundering Millions After His 2020 Money Laundering Conviction

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/canadian-businessman-sentenced-obstruction-justice-hiding-and-laundering-millions-after

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Italy: EPPO seizes €950,000 in probe into import of stainless steel coils

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/italy-eppo-seizes-eu950-000-probe-import-stainless-steel-coils

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Company which claimed to market adult films is shut down for suspected direct debit scam

Read here: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/company-which-claimed-to-market-adult-films-is-shut-down-for-suspected-direct-debit-scam

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Romania: EPPO arrests ringleader of €100 million fraud scheme with mafia ties

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/romania-eppo-arrests-ringleader-eu100-million-fraud-scheme-mafia-ties

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3 Reasons Landmines Are Making a Comeback in Colombia

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/3-reasons-landmines-are-making-a-comeback-in-colombia/

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Tirana Mayor Arrested in €1M Corruption, Fraud Scandal

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/tirana-mayor-arrested-in-eur1m-corruption-fraud-scandal

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Hackers steal $1.5bn from Bybit crypto exchange in ‘biggest digital heist ever’

Read here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/feb/23/crypto-exchange-seeks-bybit-ethereum-stolen-digital-wallet

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Outcomes FATF Plenary, 19-21 February 2025

Read here: https://www.fatf-gafi.org/content/fatf-gafi/en/publications/Fatfgeneral/outcomes-fatf-plenary-february-2025.html

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Tory politician chair’s ex-firm admitted benefiting from bribery

Read here: https://theferret.scot/scottish-conservatives-chair-russian-bribes/

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Abramovich revelations put heat on HMRC over offshore tax losses

Read here: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-02-06/abramovich-revelations-put-heat-on-hmrc-over-offshore-tax-losses/

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FinCEN Announces $37,000,000 Civil Money Penalty Against Brink’s Global Services USA, Inc. for Violations of the Bank Secrecy Act

Read here: https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-announces-37000000-civil-money-penalty-against-brinks-global-services-usa Link to civil money penalty: https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/enforcement_action/2025-02-06/FinCEN-Brinks-FINALv508.pdf

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UK MPs push for probe into Russian billionaire’s possible $1B tax dodge

Read here: https://www.icij.org/investigations/cyprus-confidential/uk-mps-push-for-probe-into-russian-billionaires-possible-1b-tax-dodge/

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Germany: EPPO arrests suspect and carries out searches and seizures in €5.8 million VAT fraud involving luxury cars

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/germany-eppo-arrests-suspect-and-carries-out-searches-and-seizures-eu58-million-vat

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Europol hosts its second Industry and Research Days

Read here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/media-press/newsroom/news/europol-hosts-its-second-industry-and-research-days

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United States Seizes Venezuelan Aircraft Involved in Violations of U.S. Export Control and Sanctions Laws

Read here: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-venezuelan-aircraft-involved-violations-us-export-control-and-sanctions

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Croatia: Two persons arrested on suspicion of subsidy fraud and document forgery

Read here: https://www.eppo.europa.eu/en/media/news/croatia-two-persons-arrested-suspicion-subsidy-fraud-and-document-forgery

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UK: Next steps to APP scams reimbursement claims management system

Read here: https://psr.org.uk/news-and-updates/thought-pieces/thought-pieces/next-steps-to-app-scams-reimbursement-claims-management-system/

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Criminal Groups Are Ramping Up Explosives in Mexico

Read here: https://insightcrime.org/news/criminal-groups-mexico-improvised-explosive-devices/

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Organised crime group jailed for pocketing millions in unpaid taxes

Read here: https://www.kent.police.uk/news/kent/latest/policing-news/organised-crime-group-jailed-for-pocketing-millions-in-unpaid-taxes/

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Philippine Vice-President Sara Duterte Impeached Over Assassination Plot, Corruption

Read here: https://www.occrp.org/en/news/philippine-vice-president-sara-duterte-impeached-over-assassination-plot-corruption

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