A federal jury has convicted Afghan national Mohammad Sharifullah for his role in a nine-year conspiracy to provide material support and resources to ISIS-K, a designated foreign terrorist organisation. The conviction centres on Sharifullah’s involvement in multiple ISIS-K operations, including the 26 August 2021 Abbey Gate bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. The attack killed 13 US military service members and approximately 160 civilians during the evacua

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has sentenced Queens pharmacy owner Taesung “Terry” Kim to 63 months in prison for conspiring to launder proceeds from a $24.4 million pharmacy fraud scheme. The case is a significant health care fraud enforcement action involving medically unnecessary prescriptions, kickbacks, bribes and the laundering of proceeds through trading companies. According to court documents, Kim co-owned several retail pharmacies in Brooklyn and Queens, New York

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has filed a civil forfeiture complaint seeking to seize a Beverly Hills mansion allegedly purchased and renovated with around $30 million in proceeds from a defence procurement fraud, foreign bribery and money laundering scheme. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California on 22 April 2026, alleges that a Virginia-based defence contractor and others obtained more than $700 million from the US Departmen

A United States cybersecurity professional has pleaded guilty to participating in a ransomware conspiracy, in a case that underscores the growing threat of insider risk within the cyber incident response ecosystem. The Department of Justice confirmed that Angelo Martino, a former ransomware negotiator, conspired with BlackCat ALPHV operators to both facilitate and execute attacks against U.S. organisations in 2023. According to court filings, Martino exploited his position at

The US Department of Justice has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, in a high-profile case that places donor transparency, charitable governance and financial crime controls under scrutiny. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama on 21 April 2026. According to the DOJ, the SPLC allegedly used more t

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has secured a guilty plea from a Mexican national tied to a multimillion-dollar black-market peso exchange scheme, marking another significant enforcement action against cartel financing networks. Announced on 8 April 2026, the case centres on Gabriel Arturo Castillo, 52, of Monterrey, Nuevo León, who admitted his role in a two-year trade-based money laundering conspiracy designed to move drug proceeds from the US to Mexico without physicall

An Arkansas man’s guilty plea to insider trading reinforces the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) continued focus on market abuse arising from informal personal relationships and misuse of confidential corporate information. The case illustrates how non-traditional information channels, including friendships with senior executives, remain a key enforcement priority for regulators and prosecutors. Douglas Dalton admitted securities fraud after trading on material nonpublic in

The US Department of Justice has moved to remove any ambiguity around where companies should report potential criminal breaches of national security laws, making clear that voluntary self-disclosures should be sent directly to the National Security Division. The update, published on 30 March 2026, links national security enforcement more tightly to the Department-wide Corporate Enforcement Policy introduced earlier this month and gives businesses a clearer route to seek coope

An Italian arms dealer has pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiring to illegally export American-made ammunition that was ultimately reexported to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine. The case highlights the continuing enforcement focus on third-country diversion routes, front companies and falsified end-use arrangements used to move controlled goods into Russia despite export restrictions. The defendant, Manfred Gruber, admitted conspiring to commit export con

A recent Department of Justice (DOJ) case underscores the continued vulnerability of the financial system to relatively low-value but high-risk sanctions evasion schemes. On 24 March 2026, Uruguayan national Irazmar Carbajal De Jesus pleaded guilty to conspiring to operate an unlicensed money transmitting business to move funds linked to a sanctioned Venezuelan official into the United States. The facts are straightforward but instructive. Carbajal agreed to transfer approxi

The US Department of Justice has secured an 81 month prison sentence against Russian national Aleksei Volkov for his role in a cybercrime operation that enabled ransomware groups to extort tens of millions of dollars from corporate victims. The case is significant because it targets not only the operators of ransomware campaigns, but also the specialist actors who help make those attacks possible in the first place. According to the Department of Justice, Volkov acted as an i

Former Nodus International Bank chief executive Tomás Niembro Concha has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, in a case that combines insider bank abuse with Venezuela sanctions evasion. The plea, announced on 20 March 2026, centres on conduct that prosecutors say helped drain at least $24.9 million from the Puerto Rican bank and contributed to its collapse in 2023. The case is significant