The Swiss state prosecutor said on Sunday it had opened criminal proceedings against Syrian and Libyan citizens on suspicion of money laundering.

Besides Iran, 10 countries under international arms sanctions succeeded in buying £1.4 b. in weapons from 2000-2010.

Lebanon's state commissioner to the military court Judge Saqr Saqr has charged six Syrian nationals and three Lebanese with smuggling weapons from Lebanon into neighboring Syria.

Security forces seized SR1.7 billion worth of narcotics and arrested 681 men involved in drug smuggling and trafficking during the past four months, an official said yesterday.

Washington on Wednesday named a general in Iran's elite al-Quds force as a key figure in trafficking heroin from Afghanistan.

Iranian police forces have discovered and seized 3 tons of Crystal meth (Methamphetamine) during the current Iranian year (ends on March 19) as Iranian police and judiciary officials intensified measures against chemically produced addictive substances, an Iranian police chief said on Monday.

Security agencies on Sunday announced that they had busted one of the world’s largest money laundering networks which was involved in the smuggling of around 95,000kg of gold and SR10 million (over Dh9 million) in cash.

Lebanese banks are allegedly laundering money for the terrorist group Hezbollah, according to the DOJ.

Security forces have arrested 475 people for being allegedly involved in smuggling and trafficking drugs worth more than SR1.71 billion (approx. € 334 mln) into the Kingdom during the last four months.

Widespread corruption throughout Iraq's government has hampered development, resulting in slow improvement of public services, the International Crisis Group has said in a report