On March 30, 2026, the United States (U.S.) Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) sent to the Federal Register a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to implement a whistleblower program by creating a framework to offer incentives and protections to encourage individuals to report information on fraud-related violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA), U.S. sanctions programs managed by Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and several other laws vital to protecting the U.S. financial system and national security.

On April 1, 2026, Cambodia extradited Li Xiong, a former leader at a Cambodian financial conglomerate accused of money laundering and being a core member of Chinese-Cambodian businessman Chen Zhiu’s criminal financial network.[1] On April 3, Cambodia’s parliament enacted the first law devoted to targeting scam centers accused of defrauding international victims.

Anssaf Ali Mayo, a Yemeni citizen, parliamentarian, and prominent member of the al-Islah party, brought a lawsuit against Hungarian-Israeli Abraham Golan and Americans Isaac Gilmore and Dale Comstock, all former executives or employees of Spear Operations Group, a private military company incorporated in Delaware.

On March 26, 2026, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a legislative resolution, which approves a new directive establishing a harmonized criminal law framework to prevent and combat corruption across the European Union (EU).[2]

In March 2026, a Brussels court ordered a former Belgian diplomat, Étienne Davignon, to face trial for war crimes for his role in the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba, an anticolonial and socialist activist and the first prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

On March 16, 2026, a federal jury convicted former Syrian prison official Samir Ousman Alsheikh, 73, of one count of conspiracy to commit torture and three counts of torture for his role in the persecution of inmates at Adra Prison in Damascus, Syria. Alsheikh was also convicted of lying to U.S. immigration officials about his past in order to secure a green card in the hopes of eventually becoming a naturalized citizen.

On March 19, 2026, the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a resolution of a transnational corruption investigation into Balt SAS (Balt), a medical device company headquartered in France, concerning an alleged scheme to pay bribes to a physician official who acted in a senior position of a state-owned public hospital in France, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

On March 19, 2026, a United States (U.S.) District Court in Tyler, Texas, granted summary judgment, invalidating and vacating the final rule requiring national reporting on certain persons involved in non-financed residential real estate transactions.

Over the past months, the Commission for the Control of INTERPOL’s Files (CCF), INTERPOL’s appellate body, has published its Annual Activity Report for 2024 and announced changes in its procedures that will affect how attorneys make submissions to the CCF.

INTERPOL declared Operation Synergia III complete on March 13, 2026. The operation, which ran from July 18, 2025, until January 31, 2026, across seventy-two countries, resulted in the removal of 45,000 harmful IP addresses and servers, the detention of ninety-four suspects, and the confiscation of 212 electronic gadgets. The operation aimed to combat specific threats, which included phishing, ransomware, malware distribution, romance scams, and credit card fraud. The operation represents the most recent effort in a continuous series of cyber disruption operations aiming to enhance organizational understanding and strengthen global collaboration.