Hu Binchen, director of International Cooperation Bureau, and Liu Zhongyi, director of Criminal Investigation Bureau, appointed assistant ministers at China’s Ministry of Public Security.

Both suspects have ‘confessed to the crime’ of killing two-year-old Danka Ilic who went missing on March 26, Search for the Ilic’s body was still under way.

Five-month police operation revealed numerous instances of safety threats and lapses that hackers could exploit.

‘Significant damage’ inflicted through fraudulent loans, misappropriated repayments and the siphoning of bank funds to other accounts, court says.

Grace Road Church has been accused of being a cult and its leaders charged with abuse, but its companies have also had a major impact on Fiji’s economy.

Arrest brings back memories of gunfights on the streets between police and armed gangs in 1980s-90s.

Top members of the “Grace Road Cult” from South Korea will be deported from Fiji following years of allegations of the movement’s involvement in bizarre and violent rituals.

Iraq said it was working to extradite people involved in the theft from countries including the UAE, Turkey, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and also called on the US and UK ‘to hand over fugitive suspects’.

From Shwe Kokko to KK Park, a slew of brutal criminal enterprises now dot the Moei River at the Thai border, where unsuspecting victims from around the globe are trafficked, tortured and forced to defraud strangers online.

‘It’s just unacceptable’, said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, adding Australia ‘will disagree’ with China ‘where we must. And we do disagree over human rights issues’. Of the eight suspects wanted under the national security law, two are based in Australia.

Sources say dozens of Hong Kong residents wanted by police for alleged national security offences had fled city; majority in North America, Britain or Australia.

Defendants await sentencing in case involving a suspected Beijing-backed operation aimed at repatriating a wanted Chinese fugitive living in New Jersey.

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Many scam hubs have now moved from Cambodia beyond the reach of the law into parts of Myanmar and Laos.

Malaysia’s Law Minister Azalina Othman Said confirmed the anti-corruption body has been cooperating with foreign agencies to speed up the process of bringing Low back to Malaysia.

Iran’s judiciary said Shahrooz Sokhanvari, a man known as ‘Alex’, was the leader of an ‘escort and trafficking network of Iranian women and girls’ to countries in the region.

Body of murder suspect, alongside suicide note, found by Japanese authorities in Yamanashi Prefecture, Hong Kong police reveal.

The force’s Anti-Deception Coordination Centre handled 113 incoming stop-payment requests from Interpol under international joint cooperation mechanism.

Australian businessman called authorities when he noticed two unauthorised transfers to bank accounts in Hong Kong and Malaysia.

Motivated also by conduct of Russia and Iran, most comprehensive American legislation on issue to date could expand legal definition of foreign agent.

Antonio Strangio is wanted in Italy on charges of trafficking 160kg of cannabis. He was arrested after arriving in Bali from Kuala Lumpur while transiting the resort island on his way home to Australia.

Bogus apps impersonated banks, media players and others to steal data from victims’ smartphones.

The men punched a security guard and smashed displays at Harry Winston’s shop in the Omotesando Hills complex in Shibuya Ward on November 20, leaving Japan two days after the crime.

Passport controls, smear campaigns and abuse of Interpol cited as tactics Beijing has employed, annual congressional report reveals.

Global police agency Interpol is preparing for virtual worlds opening the possibility for cybercrime on a larger scale.

The 23-year-old, who spent most of the past year in Thailand, was stopped on arrival because she was subject of an Interpol notice.

Goi Zhen Feng, 23, died in Thailand after falling victim to Chinese gangs preying on vulnerable young people.

Woman arrested is believed to be the mother of the two children whose remains were found in suitcases last month in New Zealand.

Secretary for Security Chris Tang says city already has ‘over 50 different offences’ laid out in various ordinances to handle cases of human trafficking.