A Colombian and three U.S. citizens are among the 21 people arrested in a joint Spanish-U.S. operation targeting a drug trafficking and money laundering outfit

International gangs are cornering the market for pirated DVDs

Johnson & Johnson will pay $78 million to settle U.S. and UK charges that it paid bribes and kickbacks to win business overseas, the first big drug company to settle since the Obama administration began its scrutiny of the industry more than a year ago

Turkey continues to serve as a transit point for large amounts of heroin being smuggled into Western Europe, the US government has said in a report on narcotics control

Almost 200 suspects have already been arrested in a large-scale international child pornography ring centred in the Netherlands

A top Afghan drug lord jailed in the United States since 2008 was for years on the US payroll as an informant for the CIA and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), The New York Times said Saturday

Russia and the United States have uncovered a cocaine trade scheme involving a high-profile Russian impresario eager to set up business in Moscow's expensive night clubs, Russia's top drugs control officer said Monday

There is clear and convincing evidence that large sums are being siphoned from the multi-billion dollar revenues from the global cigarette smuggling trade into the pockets of terrorist networks and international organised crime

Fourteen alleged members of the Gambino crime family have been indicted on charges including murder, racketeering, prostitution of minors and trying to locate and intimidate a sequestered jury, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Manhattan, New York, said Tuesday

Authorities said they had arrested the brother of Italy’s most wanted mafioso on Monday, along with 18 others accused of helping Sicilian boss Matteo Messina Denaro avoid capture