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Two criminal trials opening in Madrid this week have put renewed focus on allegations of kickbacks, illicit party financing, and broader political corruption in Spain.

Three Greek cabinet ministers resigned on Friday as a European Union investigation into alleged farm subsidy fraud widened, in a case that has intensified political pressure on the government and added to unrest in the country’s farming sector.

Ten years after the Panama Papers exposed the offshore financial system exploited by tax cheats and criminals around the world, prosecutions and transparency reforms tied to the landmark investigation are still unfolding.

The Trump administration on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s interim president, Delcy Rodríguez, removing a key barrier that had prevented Americans from doing business with her and potentially clearing the way for fresh U.S. investment in the country. 

Drift Protocol, the largest decentralized perpetual futures exchange on the Solana blockchain, was exploited for about $286 million in a hack that blockchain analytics firm Elliptic said bore multiple indicators of a possible North Korean link.

Rwanda has threatened to withdraw its troops from northern Mozambique, where they have spent the past five years containing Islamic State-linked militants, after the U.S. imposed sanctions on Kigali over its alleged support for the M23 insurgency in neighboring Congo.

Chinese authorities have arrested the former chairman of Cambodia’s Huione Group, a financial conglomerate identified as a central player in a global money-laundering network, in the latest escalation of Beijing’s campaign against transnational organized crime in Southeast Asia, The New York Times said.  Li Xiong, a Chinese national and former chairman of Huione Group, was […]

Malta is mounting an unusually public fight against a European Union push to centralize crypto supervision, arguing the move would strip the island-nation of oversight over major digital-asset firms it helped attract and regulate.

Tehran has intensified cyber attacks against Israel and the United States in response to the Iran war, using operations designed to spread fear, gather intelligence, and support military targeting.

A Malaysian court on Tuesday ordered jailed former Prime Minister Najib Razak to pay $1.3 billion to SRC International, a former unit of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB, after finding him liable for losses incurred by the company.