On October 3, 2023, the United States Department of Justice announced the unsealing of eight indictments in the U.S. District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida, charging China-based companies and their employees with crimes concerning fentanyl and methamphetamine production, distribution of synthetic opioids and sales resulting from precursor chemicals, as well as associated money laundering.

Slowly foreign governments are joining the effort to curb illegal firearms trafficking from the United States. On October 4, 2023, the Dominican Republic requested the U.S. to curb smuggling of firearms to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

On September 27, 2023, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)  announced the issuance of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to extend the deadline for certain reporting companies to file their initial beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports. 

On October 2, 2023, the United Nations Security Council authorized deployment of a Multinational Security Support Mission, which Kenya will lead in close cooperation with the skeletal Government of Haiti, for an initial period of 12 months, with a review after nine.

On September 29, 2023, former Swiss banker Rolf Schnellmann was arraigned in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of York before Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang after Italy extradited him.

On October 3, 2023, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) released an alarming report warning that there is an overwhelming risk that human rights atrocities will continue in Ethiopia, and it is vital that independent investigations into the country’s dire human rights situation persist.

On September 29, 2023, the United States Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission announced that Albemarle Corporation (Albemarle) a publicly-traded specialty chemicals manufacturing company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, has agreed to enter into a Non-Prosecution Agreement and Pay more than $218 million to settle investigations into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) arising from Albemarle’s engagement in corrupt activities to pay bribes to government officials in multiple foreign countries. 

On September 20, United States law enforcement authorities obtained custody of Greg Lawson, 63, of Ringgold, Louisiana.  Lawson was convicted in May 1991 but shortly before the verdict was announced, Lawson disappeared.  The FBI had searched for him and suspected he had fled to Mexico.

On September 18, 2023, Justin Trudeau, speaking in the House of Commons, said Canadian authorities are pursuing “credible allegations” of connections between agents of the Indian government to the killing of a Sikh leader in Canada. 

On September 21, 2023, U.S. District Judge Joan Ericksen sentenced Mark Gyetvay to 86 months in prison after a jury in March found him guilty of crimes arising out of hiding millions of dollars in undisclosed Swiss bank accounts and submitting a false filing with the IRS.