On June 7 and 8, 2021, the Council of the European Union Justice and Home Affairs held its 3799^th meeting and made progress on a number of international enforcement and criminal justice harmonization areas, including the e-CODEX system,  the Fundamental Rights Agency, combatting illegal content online, protection of vulnerable adults, e-Evidence negotiations, and the European Public Prosecutor’s Office.[1]

On June 11, 2021, Jessica Johanna Oseguera Gonzalez, 34, of Guadalajara, Mexico, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for willfully participating in financial dealings with Mexican companies that the U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) had identified as specially designated narcotics traffickers.[1]

On June 10, 2021, a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia returned a superseding indictment  charging Low Take Jho, 39, also known as Jho Low, and Prakazel “Pras,” 48, with elaborating an unregistered shadow campaign starting in or about 2017 to influence the then President Trump  and the Department of Justice both to end the investigation of Jho Low and others in connection with the international strategic and development company known as 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and to return a Chinese dissent to China. Meanwhile, Malaysia has brought sued three banks to recover assets worth more than $23 billion the government says are connected to the fund.

On May 28, 2021, Belizean authorities detained Jasmine Hartin, a 32-year-old Canadian woman. They charged her in the San Pedro Magistrate’s Court in connection with the death of Henry Jemmott, a local police superintendent. The Director of Public Prosecutions Cheryl Lynn Vidal directed that Hartin be charged with negligent manslaughter in Jemmott’s death in Ambergris Caye when he was off-duty.[1] The case is a high-visible one in Belize because Hartin is the partner/husband of Andrew Ashcroft, son of Michael Ashcroft, the Conservative party donor. Lord Ashcroft is a former Tory party deputy chairman.  He is formerly a member of the House of Lords, a billionaire, and very influential due to his investments in Belize. [2]On June 9, the Supreme Court granted Hartin bail.

On May 27, 2021, the U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to appoint a Commission of Inquiry on the latest Israel-Palestine conflict.

On May 25, 2021, the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York unsealed an indictment against two Austrian nationals, one of which was arrested in the United Kingdom, on criminal charges related to the alleged participation in a conspiracy to launder hundreds of millions of dollars through the U.S. financial system as part of a scheme to pay bribes and defraud the Brazilian government.[1]

On June 3, 2021, the Biden Administration released a memorandum establishing combating corruption as a core United States national security interest, thereby stimulating several international anti-corruption initiatives.

On May 18 and 19, 2021, the Ministers of Justice and Attorneys General of the member states of the Organization of American States (OAS) participated in the Eleventh Meeting of Ministers of Justice, or Other Ministers, or Attorneys General of the Americas (REMJA – XI).  Ecuador hosted the virtual meeting.  The Ecuadorian Attorney General, Dr. Diana Salazar, hosted the meeting.

On May 27, 2021, the United States Attorney in Miami announced the arrest in Florida and Georgia of the former Minister of Interior, his chief of staff, and three U.S. citizens on criminal charges related to their alleged roles in bribery and money laundering conspiracy.[1]

On May 25, 2021, an Italian court ordered that four Egyptian security officials must stand trial on October 14 over the kidnap, torture, and murder of an Italian student whose body was found in Cairo after he disappeared in January 2016.  The body of Giulio Regini, a postgraduate student at the University of Cambridge, was so badly disfigured when it was found that his mother could scarcely identify him.[1]