ISHOWCRIME / CRIME STORIES The global crime archive. Source-linked crime reports and case updates. Search by topic, region or country.
RegionWorldwide Asia Europe Africa North America South America Oceania Antarctica Country / territoryAll places Afghanistan Åland Islands Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antarctica Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia & Herzegovina Botswana Bouvet Island Brazil British Indian Ocean Territory British Virgin Islands Brunei Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Caribbean Netherlands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Colombia Comoros Congo - Brazzaville Congo - Kinshasa Cook Islands Costa Rica Côte d’Ivoire Croatia Cuba Curaçao Cyprus Czechia Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Eswatini Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Faroe Islands Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia French Southern Territories Gabon Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard & McDonald Islands Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Libya Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macao Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Myanmar (Burma) Namibia Nauru Nepal Netherlands New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norfolk Island North Korea North Macedonia Northern Mariana Islands Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Palestine Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Pitcairn Islands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Réunion Romania Russia Rwanda Samoa San Marino São Tomé & Príncipe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Sint Maarten Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South Africa South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands South Korea South Sudan Spain Sri Lanka St. Barthélemy St. Helena St. Kitts & Nevis St. Lucia St. Martin St. Pierre & Miquelon St. Vincent & Grenadines Sudan Suriname Svalbard & Jan Mayen Sweden Switzerland Syria Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Timor-Leste Togo Tokelau Tonga Trinidad & Tobago Tunisia Türkiye Turkmenistan Turks & Caicos Islands Tuvalu U.S. Outlying Islands U.S. Virgin Islands Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City Venezuela Vietnam Wallis & Futuna Western Sahara Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe Case stageAll stages Investigation Arrest Charged Convicted Sentenced Policy Explainer
14 published stories · Fiction labelled; factual reports source-linked
AI ILLUSTRATION Case Files Explainer 2 min read
Historical case file · July 2017. The AlphaBay and Hansa operations show how the closure of one criminal marketplace can send activity elsewhere—and why investigators worked across borders.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Cybercrime Explainer 2 min read
A copy of the data is valuable. Knowing it survived the attack—and can be restored safely—is what makes it useful.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Fraud Explainer 2 min read
Business email fraud exploits familiar routines. The important check is whether the payment request can be verified outside the message itself.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Public Safety Explainer 2 min read
Phishing turns a message into a request for trust. A separate route to the real organisation can help you assess it without following the sender’s instructions.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Organised Crime Langley RCMP reports charges following Project E_PURSUANCE. Allegations include extortion and related violence; no convictions are reported.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Fraud Police allege a company lost NZ$2 million through misuse of internal systems. The September report describes charges, not a court verdict.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Fraud A Virginia federal case shows how redirected business payments became a fraud scheme. The Justice Department reports sentences after guilty pleas.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Violent Crime The CPS reports prison sentences after guilty pleas in the kidnap and blackmail of a watch dealer. Another defendant awaited sentencing.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Cybercrime Investigators allege impersonation of US agencies and losses above $7.21 million. The case remains an investigation, not a conviction.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Organised Crime Europol’s 2 October update concerns suspects arrested in Spain, Morocco and France during August and September.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Courts The Hawks report an eight-year sentence, with two years suspended, in a case involving losses of about R3.66 million.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
AI ILLUSTRATION Fraud A September CPS update reports four years and five months in prison after guilty pleas involving insurance fraud and interference with justice.
ishowcrime desk 04 Oct
Load more articles 2 more
AI ILLUSTRATIONCase Files
AI ILLUSTRATIONCybercrime
AI ILLUSTRATIONFraud
AI ILLUSTRATIONOrganised Crime