INTERPOL

An international crackdown by INTERPOL on organised criminal networks involved in migrant smuggling and human trafficking across the Mediterranean Sea and the West African Atlantic route has resulted in the arrest of 262 suspects in 16 countries and the identification of 41 criminal groups.

Public announcements following INTERPOL’s Operation Serengeti III highlighted 1,462 arrests and over $105 million in seized assets across 21 participating nations.

The International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL) has announced the arrest of 95 suspects in a sweeping international crackdown on the production, distribution and commercialisation of child sexual abuse material, exposing the disturbing scale at which messaging applications and cryptocurrencies are being exploited to facilitate abuse across borders.

An international crackdown on organised environmental crime across nine countries in Latin America and the Caribbean has resulted in the arrest of 233 suspects and the recovery of more than 1,000 live animals, as authorities intensified efforts to dismantle networks profiting from the destruction of forests and trafficking of wildlife.

The warning came as representatives from 110 INTERPOL member countries met in Panama City, Panama, for the 2026 Plenary Meeting of the Global Congress on Chemical Security and Emerging Threats.

The suspect (whose name and photograph have been shielded from the public), had fled Sweden and was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice.

According to INTERPOL, the operation ran from November 2025 to June 2026, bringing together law enforcement agencies from six continents to identify high-value criminal targets, trace illicit financial flows, seize criminal assets and support arrests and prosecutions.

A continent-wide INTERPOL study shows only 8 percent of law enforcement cyber analysts in Africa have advanced skills required to track AI-driven attacks. Cybercriminals deployed artificial intelligence in 55 percent of all documented cybercrime cases across 36 African...

 INTERPOL's African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2026 says artificial intelligence now powers 55 per cent of reported cybercrimes across Africa, making attacks faster, more sophisticated, and harder to detect.  Cybercrime losses across the continent have surged from $192 million...

July 9 (THEWILL) — The International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) has announced the arrest of more than 5,800 suspects and the recovery of over $293 million during a coordinated anti-fraud operation conducted across 97 countries. Interpol disclosed on Thursday that...