On October 18, 2022, Lafarge S.A. (Lafarge), a global building materials manufacturer headquartered in France, and Lafarge Cement Syria, S.A. (LCS), a Lafarge subsidiary headquartered in Syria, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information  charging it with conspiring to furnish material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), both U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations.[1]  Following the guilty pleas, United States District Judge William F. Kuntz, II sentenced the defendants to terms of probation and to pay financial penalties, including criminal fines of $90.78 million and forfeiture of $687 million, totaling $777.78 million.[2]

On October 20, 2022, after Mexico extradited him, Jaime Gonzalez Duran, a Mexican national, had his initial appearance in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to face international drug charges.

On October 20, 2022, Anne Sacoolas, a United States citizen who fled Britain in 2019 after her car struck and killed a 19-year-old British motorcyclist in England, pled guilty to causing the death of the victim Harry Dunn by careless driving.[1]

On October 18, 2022, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine has released and submitted its report to the UN General Assembly.[1]

On October 24, 2022, the United States Department of Justice announced three separate cases brought in the U.S. Attorneys’ Offices for the Eastern District of New York and the District of new Jersey against 13 individuals, including members of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) security and intelligence apparatus and their agents, for alleged efforts to unlawfully exert influence in the U.S. for the benefit of the government of the PRC.[1]

Both the Council of Europe and the European Parliament^[1] continue involvement in the Russian aggression against Ukraine.

On September 9, Roxanne Chantereau, co-founder of the JACK Primate Rehabilitation Center in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo found that three chimpanzees had been gone missing.  Later that day via WhatsApp, she would receive a video showing the three missing infant primates in a filthy hovel and a ransom demand of six figures.  Congo’s National Intelligence Agency has begun an investigation into the matter and “consider the robbing of these babies as a security threat for the country.”

On October 6, 2022, the IRS announced that IRS Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Mexico City has found 79 criminal fugitives in Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras as part of a new initiative. [1]

On October 12, 2022, U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the civil action brought by the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) against Stephen A. Wynn, whereby the DOJ sought an injunction forcing him to register as such under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

On October 6, 2022, Tax Inspectors Without Borders (TIWB), a joint OECD/UNDP initiative, issued an annual report, showing it has expanded its services to furnish practical hands-on assistance on criminal tax investigation, the effective use of automatic exchange of information data, digitalization of tax administrations, and tax and the environment.  The annual report states the initiative has brought a total of $1.7 billion in additional tax assessed across Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean.