On July 28, 2026, the United States (U.S.) Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Brian Nelson Booker, a former resident of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, appeared in federal court on tax and false statement charges after Belarus expelled him. In July 2021, a federal grand jury returned a second superseding indictment charging Booker with failing to file Reports of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (FBARs), filing false documents with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and making false statements.

On July 16, 2026, United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota announced that Somalia had transferred Abdikerm Abdelahi Eidleh, 42, of Burnsville, Minnesota to the United States.  An indictment in September 2022 charged Eidleh and other defendants in the Feeding Our Future scheme.  The indictment has 31 charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, federal programs bribery, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering. 

On July 23, 2026, Trial Chamber IV of the International Criminal Court (ICC) terminated the proceedings against Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and thereby vacated the arrest warrant against him.

On 24 July 2026, at a special session at United Nations headquarters in New York, the governing body of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to remove prosecutor Karim Khan from his position with immediate effect. The decision was made by simple majority during a closed-door vote among the 125-member Assembly of States Parties (ASP) to dismiss Mr. Khan, who Member States had elected to serve a nine-year term as the court’s prosecutor in 2021. Of the 125 member states of the court, 82 voted in favor of Khan’s removal in an ICC meeting in New York while 13 voted against and 15 countries abstained.

The youth-safety debate has entered a new phase of international enforcement. What began as a public conversation about screen time, parental supervision, and adolescent well-being is now a transnational legal contest over platform design, age assurance, consumer deception, data governance, and institutional accountability.

On July 7, 2026, the Mexican government announced it was launching an investigation into the capture and extradition of drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada in 2024.   The inquiry comes after local media outlet Pie de Nota suggested the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was involved in the drug lord’s capture.   The report included a statement that it attributed to the FBI that its special agents had “carried out the arrest and transfer of one of the United States governments top targets”.   The FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

On July 16, 2026, a German court convicted a former banker for the Macquarie Group, an Australian based entity, of tax evasion involving cum ex-dividend transactions.  The Bonn Regional court sentenced him to one year and eight months of parole.

On July 13, 2026, Europol released its annual “European Union Terrorism Situation and Trend Report (EU TE-SAT)”, which Europol has produced since 2007.This flagship report – the only one of its kind in Europe - describes the major developments and trends in the terrorism landscape in the EU in 2025, based on qualitative and quantitative information provided by EU Member States and other Europol partners.

Since its inception in 2023, Sudan’s civil war between armed government forces and various paramilitary groups has led to widespread destruction across the North African country, allegations of war crimes and genocide, and a massive refugee crisis. However, recent developments from various judicial groups and international institutions seek to mitigate the war’s horrific violence and hold leaders and militia members accountable for their crimes. 

               The International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) recently cracked down on global financial fraud with the conclusion of Operation First Light 2026 (15 January - 30 April ), which focused on combatting social engineering scams and associated money laundering techniques.^[2]  Social engineering refers to techniques that exploit a person’s trust to obtain money or information.^[3]  These techniques include but are not limited to email compromise, sextortion, and romance, impersonation or investment scams.^[4]