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U.S. Seizes Web Domain Used in $28 Million Bank Account Takeover Fraud |
On December 22, 2025, the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the seizure of a web domain and database that criminals employed to carry out a scheme targeting and defrauding... |
Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-29 |
United States |
Cybercrime, Financial Enforcement |
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U.S. Acts against Caribbean CBI and EU Threatens Action |
The United States (U.S.) is acting against Caribbean Citizenship by Investment (CBI), and the European Union is threatening action.
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Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-29 |
Caribbean, European Union, United States |
European Commission, Regulation |
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Austrian Appellate Court Denies U.S. Extradition Request for Ukrainian |
On December 9, an Austrian appellate court denied the extradition request for Ukrainian tycoon Dmytro Firtash on bribery charges. The United States (U.S.) government requested his extradition... |
Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-18 |
Austria, Ukraine |
Extradition |
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Southeast Asian Money Laundering Networks and Their Extensive Global Reach |
On December 4th, 2025, Cambodian authorities targeted Huione Group, a notorious money laundering front for global hacker networks and cyber criminals. Huione Group provides refuge for global... |
Dimitris Konstantopoulos |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-18 |
Cambodia, China |
Counterfeiting, Cybercrime, Money Laundering |
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U.S. Removes Sanctions against Brazilian Justice and His Family |
On December 12, 2025, the U.S. Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control announced the removal of Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes and his family for the role of... |
Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-18 |
Brazil |
Sanctions |
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Individualization of Criminal Involvement Under INTERPOL’s Rules |
In order for INTERPOL to approve a government’s request for the publication of a Red Notice, such request must include “sufficient judicial data,” which under Article 83(2)(b)(i)... |
Yuriy Nemets |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-18 |
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INTERPOL |
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U.S. Court of Appeals Upholds Legality of the Corporate Transparency Act |
On December 16, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued an opinion that the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is within the authority of Congress to regulate... |
Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-18 |
United States |
Financial Supervision |
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26 Jurisdictions Agree to Implement International Transparency Framework on Real Estate for Tax Purposes |
On December 4, 2025, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) announced that twenty-six countries and jurisdictions intend to implement the new international... |
Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-12 |
World |
OECD, Tax Enforcement |
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ICC Prosecutor Opens Investigation into Crimes in El-Fasher |
On November 3, 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced investigations into crimes allegedly committed in Darfur since the outbreak of... |
Michael Plachta |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-12 |
Sudan |
Crimes against Humanity, International Criminal Court, Investigation, War Crimes |
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U.S. Transfers 14 Mexican Nationals with Drug or Firearm Convictions to Mexico |
On December 9, 2025, the United States Department of Justice’s (DOJ) announced that the Office of International Affairs (OIA), with help from the DOJ’s Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP),... |
Bruce Zagaris |
42 |
1 |
2025-12-12 |
Mexico, United States |
Transfer of Prisoners, Treaties |
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Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal Sentences Former PM to Death for Crimes Against Humanity |
On November 17, the exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, was handed a death sentence after being convicted of crimes against humanity. In a trial conducted in absentia, a... |
Chloe Fontenelle |
41 |
12 |
2025-12-05 |
Bangladesh, India |
Capital Punishment, Crimes against Humanity, Extradition, International Courts |
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U.S. Requests Extradition of Prominent Guyanese for Tax Evasion & Gold Smuggling |
On October 31, 2025, the Guyana Criminal Investigations Department (CID) and Special Branch of the Guyana Police Force arrested prominent Guyanese businessmen Azruddin Mohamed and his father, Nazar... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
12 |
2025-12-05 |
Guyana, United States |
Extradition, Tax Enforcement |
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European Parliament Amends the Europol Regulation to Effectively Combat Migrant Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings |
On November 25, 2025, the European Parliament adopted its legislative resolution on the Council position at first reading with a view to the adoption of a regulation of the European Parliament and... |
Michael Plachta |
41 |
12 |
2025-12-05 |
European Union |
Europol, Human Trafficking |
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Ex-Philippine Mayor Given Life Sentence for Human Trafficking |
On November 20, 2025, Alice Leal Guo, the first-ever female mayor of Bamban — a Philippine city a little over 100 miles north of Manila — was sentenced to life in... |
Austin Wahl |
41 |
12 |
2025-12-05 |
China, Philippines |
Corruption, Human Trafficking, Sentencing |
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Stolen Egyptian Artifact Returned by the Dutch Government |
On November 2, the Netherlands’ Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced during talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo that the Dutch government would return a Pharaoh-era... |
Lucy Carroll |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-26 |
Egypt, Netherlands |
Art and Cultural Property, Cross-Border Communication, Cultural Property |
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The High Court of Australia Paves the Way for the Use of “AN0M” Evidence – and Validates Global “Outsourcing” |
On October 8, the High Court of Australia issued a ruling entitled CD v. Commonwealth of Australia that validated legislation rapidly adopted by the Parliament to remove evidentiary... |
Frederick T. Davis |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-26 |
Australia |
Evidence Sharing, International Law, Trial |
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Austria Indicts Two Former Syrian Officials for Crimes Against Humanity |
On November 12, 2025, Austrian prosecutors indicted two former Syrian officials with serious crimes. The charges concern their roles in suppressing the Arab Spring uprising from 2011 to 2013... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-26 |
Austria, Syria |
Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes |
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The Arrest of Fugitive Ecuadorian Drug Lord in Spain Reveals Extent of Corruption and Organized Crime in the Small Andean Country |
In November 2025, Spanish authorities arrested Wilmer Chavarria in Malaga, Spain, in coordination with Ecuadorian law enforcement.
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Dimitris Konstantopoulos |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-26 |
Ecuador, Spain |
Drugs & Trafficking, International Cooperation, Law Enforcement |
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Amidst Transnational Cyberscamming Crackdown, Chinese Court Sentences Eleven Crime Syndicate Members to Death |
On September 29, the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced eleven members of a family-run crime syndicate to death without reprieve on charges including cyberscamming, gambling, and... |
Chloe Fontenelle |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-21 |
China, Myanmar |
Capital Punishment, Cybercrime, Human Trafficking, Organized Crime, Sentencing |
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France Extradites Belarusian National to the U.S. for Export Control Violations |
On November 4, 2025, United States (U.S.) law enforcement announced that French authorities extradited Yana Leonova, 33, a Belarusian national living in Russia, on an indictment in the U.S.... |
Bruce Zagaris |
41 |
12 |
2025-11-21 |
France, Russia, United States |
Export Enforcement, Extradition |
