On November 17, the exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, was handed a death sentence after being convicted of crimes against humanity. In a trial conducted in absentia, a panel of three judges reviewed the case at the International Crimes Tribunal (‘ICT’ or ‘the Court’), the national domestic war crimes court in Bangladesh.

In November 2025, Spanish authorities arrested Wilmer Chavarria in Malaga, Spain, in coordination with Ecuadorian law enforcement.

 On November 12, 2025, Austrian prosecutors indicted two former Syrian officials with serious crimes. The charges concern their roles in suppressing the Arab Spring uprising from 2011 to 2013 against Bashar al-Assad in Raqqa.

On October 8, the High Court of Australia issued a ruling entitled CD v. Commonwealth of Australia that validated legislation rapidly adopted by the Parliament to remove evidentiary obstacles to the prosecution of drug dealers and other alleged criminals who had been caught in a massive international “sting” using the so-called “AN0M” technology, known in Australia as Operation Ironside. 

On November 2, the Netherlands’ Prime Minister Dick Schoof announced during talks with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi in Cairo that the Dutch government would return a Pharaoh-era sculpture to Egypt, determined to have been illegally looted.

On November 10, 2025, Thailand’s Appeals Court ordered the extradition of She Zhijiang, a Chinese-Cambodian businessman accused of running one of Asia’s largest illegal online gambling and cybercrime networks. The decision affirms an earlier ruling by the nation’s Criminal Court and requires Zhijiang’s deportation to China within ninety days.

In a multi-national joint operation, Spanish authorities dismantled one of the “branches” of Mexico’s Cartel Jalisco New Generation (Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación) (CJNG) operating in their territory.

On November 4, 2025, United States (U.S.) law enforcement announced that French authorities extradited Yana Leonova, 33, a Belarusian national living in Russia, on an indictment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, charging her with smuggling, money laundering, and fraud.

On September 29, the Wenzhou Intermediate People’s Court sentenced eleven members of a family-run crime syndicate to death without reprieve on charges including cyberscamming, gambling, and human trafficking. This trial is part of a larger effort by the Chinese government to address the massive cyberscamming operations, usually run by cross-border syndicates, which are currently plaguing the region.

On November 14, four United States (U.S.) nationals and a Ukrainian identity broker pleaded guilty to participating in remote information technology (IT) work and virtual currency heist schemes on behalf of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea).