On June 11, 2024, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) imposed sanctions on one of Guyana’s wealthiest families: Nazar Mohamed, his son, Azruddin Mohamed, and their company, Mohamed’s Enterprise, as well as Guyana’s Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Labor: Mae Thomas, alleging public corruption.  OFAC additionally sanctioned Team Mohamed’s Racing Team and Hadi’s world for their connection to (owned or controlled by) the Mohameds.[1]   The Mohameds deny any wrongdoing.

            On June 17, 2024, the heads of anti-corruption agencies in the Commonwealth Caribbean concluded their annual conference in Nassau, The Bahamas.  They unanimously pledged to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) in the fight against corruption. The Commonwealth Secretariat and the Bahamas Public Disclosure Commission as well as the Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies in the Commonwealth Caribbean (CCAICACB), hosted the Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies.

        On June 25, 2024, a Maryland Federal Grand Jury charged Russian national Amin Timovich Stigal with conspiracy to hack into and destroy the Ukrainian Government’s computer systems and data ahead of Russia’s invasion in February 2022. Stigal allegedly attacked computer systems in countries that supported Ukraine, including the United States. Stigal currently remains at large. 

  On July 26, 2024,  Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks, pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act in a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.  The plea results in Assange’s immediate release without conditions and ends the efforts of the U.S., British, and Swedish governments to obtain custody and prosecute him since 2010.

               On June 24, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two top Russian officials: Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu and Valery Vasilyevich Gerasimov, Russia’s former defense minister and Russia’s current chief of the army, respectively.  The ICC accuses both men of targeting Ukraine’s electric infrastructure during the war, a move that inflicted needlessly extensive (proportionate to the military gain) harm on the civilian population, according to the Hague-based court.

              Two major international bodies—the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) — delivered decisions on June 25, 2024, confirming Russia's long-term perpetration of international crimes and human rights violations in Ukraine. The ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber II announced on June 25, that it had issued arrest warrants for former Russian Defense Minister and current Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the Russian General Staff Army General Valery Gerasimov for “the war crime of directing attacks at civilian objects” in Ukraine.

             On July 26, 2024,  Julian Assange, who founded WikiLeaks, pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Espionage Act in a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory in the Pacific Ocean.  The plea results in Assange’s immediate release without conditions and ends the efforts of the U.S., British, and Swedish governments to obtain custody and prosecute him since 2010.

                On May 30, 2024, the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security Services launched an investigation into 2^nd Milk, a non-profit organization founded in 2015 by Jason and Lacey Carney in Springdale, Arkansas, for possible wire fraud as part of a larger ploy to defraud donors. 

                On June 4, 2024, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights ruled in the matter of Dominick Damian vs. United Republic of Tanzania. The African Court, a continental court established by African states to ensure the protection of human and people’s rights in Africa reiterated demands to abolish the death penalty since it violates the African Charter of Human and People’s Rights. Founded in 1998, the Court complements the functions of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

                On June 17, 2024, the United States Department of Justice announced the extradition by the Czech Republic of an Indian national to face a murder-for-hire charge.