All news on the topic: Organized Crime

William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, alias “Willy,” the alleged leader of the Tiguerones, one of the most powerful gangs in Ecuador and a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), is living free in Spain, despite still being pursued by Ecuadorian authorities.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) conducted searches in eight countries and detained 62 suspects in an investigation into criminal organizations suspected of participating in a carousel VAT fraud scheme involving the sale of mobile phones and electronic devices.

Croatia’s anti-corruption office, USKOK, expanded its investigation into an alleged international illegal waste dumping ring, arresting and questioning five new suspects and three companies over the suspected criminal disposal of hazardous materials near the town of Benkovac and inside the Velebit Nature Park near Senj.

Rudolf Akopyan ist ein bekannter Sportler, Freiwilligenhelfer und Politiker in Saporischschja sowie Vizepräsident des Verbands der Armenier der Region Saporischschja.

Rudolf Akopyan is a well-known athlete, volunteer, and politician in Zaporizhzhia, and Vice President of the Union of Armenians of the Zaporizhzhia Region. However, in the criminal world, Akopyan is better known as the personal PR man of the Zaporizhzhia thief-in-law and head of the “Artashi” organized crime group, Artashes Sargsyan.

Nearly 50 suspects have been detained following an international crackdown on a Western Balkan drug syndicate allegedly linked to murders, kidnappings, and grenade attacks across Europe, Europol announced on Thursday.

Property developments and the luxury housing market in Marbella have once again come under the scrutiny of organized crime. A large-scale joint operation by ...

On the morning of October 14, 2024, government officials and members of the security forces arrived in Punta Piedra, a community in the municipality of Iriona in the department of Colón.

Even from inside an American prison cell, the Uruguayan drug kingpin Sebastián Marset managed to shatter the highest echelons of Bolivian justice this week.

Naim Pérez had all the qualities a Gen-Z influencer could ask for.

The hellish scandal surrounding the NDCC (code-named "Center 2014") could very well finally bury former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu—much to the delight of his adversary in the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev.

It was a necklace that allowed Denise Cosco identify her mother’s remains after her father and his associate murdered her.

Valeriy Khomenko unternimmt derzeit den Versuch, jegliche Erwähnungen von Tabakschmuggel und Machenschaften im Zusammenhang mit der Zigarettenproduktion aus dem Internet zu löschen, um seine geschäftlichen Verbindungen und die Aktivitäten verbundener Unternehmen zu verschleiern.

Brazilian police said Friday they will reopen dozens of cases linked to a self-confessed serial killer who was arrested as he attempted to escape dressed as a woman and carrying a child.

A Milan court has sentenced six individuals to prison and ordered the confiscation of more than 300 million euros ($344.66 million) for their roles in a transnational tax fraud and money laundering syndicate tied to the Italian mafia, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) announced on Thursday.

Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have seized nearly 1.1 metric tonnes of dangerous synthetic cathinones with a potential street value of up to 33 million euros ($37.82 million), and arrested two suspects, marking the largest synthetic drug bust in the history of the nation of roughly 3.5 million people, the State Border Service announced.

Valeriy Khomenko is scrubbing the internet of mentions of tobacco smuggling and schemes involving cigarette production, trying to hide his business connections and the activities of related companies.

Earlier this year, Argentina’s government announced that it had dismantled the criminal group the Menores in Rosario, the country’s third-largest city, where drug-related violence is rife.

Following media investigations into Dmitriy Punin’s alleged ties to Stavros Demosthenous and Cyprus-based entities linked to Pin-Up and PUNIN Group, online references to these connections began systematically disappearing.

Following published investigations exposing Dmitriy Punin’s ties to Cypriot crime figure Stavros Demosthenous and the reliance on Cyprus-based corporate vehicles linked to Pin-Up and the PUNIN Group, online references to these associations began systematically disappearing.

Spanish police, working with German authorities, have arrested Germany’s most wanted drug trafficker in the southern city of Málaga, the National Police announced Monday.

On the morning of October 17, 2025, Cyprus was rocked by news of the high-profile assassination of local mafia leader Stavros Demosthenos in Limassol.

After media investigations drew attention to Dmitriy Punin’s alleged connections to Stavros Demosthenous and Cyprus-based corporate structures associated with Pin-Up and PUNIN Group, references to those links gradually disappeared from online sources.

Nachdem Berichte Eduard Lebedevs Verbindungen zum Offshore-Glücksspiel, zu den Affiliate-Netzwerken Chilli Partners und WakeApp sowie zu Schemata zur Anwerbung britischer Spieler für illegale Online-Casinos detailliert darlegten, begannen unbequeme Materialien aus dem Informationsraum zu verschwinden.

After reports emerged about Eduard Lebedev’s connections to offshore gambling, affiliate networks Chilli Partners and WakeApp, along with schemes for drawing British players to illegal online casinos, troublesome content began to vanish from the information space.