Human Trafficking

Jeffrey Epstein received $25 million in late 2015 for consulting work tied to a U.S. Justice Department tax-evasion settlement with Swiss private bank Edmond de Rothschild Group.

Brazil has added Chinese automaker BYD to a government registry of employers linked to slavery-like labor conditions after an investigation into the treatment of Chinese workers hired to help build the company’s factory in Bahia state.

Britain’s new Fair Work Agency will target abuse of labor market rules in construction and social care, two sectors heavily dependent on migrant workers, as the government expands enforcement powers to pursue fraud and workplace exploitation.

Cambodia’s parliament on Friday passed the country’s first law specifically aimed at combating online scam centers, setting prison terms and fines for fraud, money laundering, data theft, and recruitment tied to the illicit industry as scrutiny intensifies over the country’s role in global cyber scams.

A U.S. judge on Thursday granted preliminary approval to Bank of America’s $72.5 million settlement with women who accused the bank of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse.

UBS AG processed an $8-million transfer for Ghislaine Maxwell in late 2019 that ultimately helped fund the cash purchase of the New Hampshire estate where she later went into hiding before her 2020 arrest.

Britain has expanded its crackdown on Southeast Asia’s scam economy by sanctioning Xinbi, a Chinese-language crypto marketplace that officials say helped service scam centers, along with Legend Innovation Co., the operator of Cambodia’s “#8 Park” compound, and six individuals allegedly tied to the network.

French financial prosecutors searched the Paris offices of private bank Edmond de Rothschild last week as part of an investigation into suspected bribery involving former employee and diplomat Fabrice Aidan, in a case linked to documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Serious and organized crime became more diverse and more harmful in 2025, with drugs, organized immigration crime, and illicit finance all worsening, according to a new report by the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA). 

Bank of America has agreed in principle to settle a proposed class action lawsuit brought by Jeffrey Epstein’s victims ,who accused the lender of aiding the late financier’s sex-trafficking operation.