On September 25, 2017, U.S. law enforcement officials announced that a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida returned an indictment charging a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent and two Colombian nationals with conspiracy, corruption, and obstruction of justice charges arising from their participation in a bribery scheme that resulted in the dismissal of an indictment filed against Jose Piedrahita Ceballos, one of the Colombian nationals, in exchange for cash and other things of value.

On September 29, 2017, District Judge (MC) Goldspring in the Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London (UK) delivered a judgment ordering the surrender of Michal Konrad Herba to the Italian authorities under the European Arrest Warrant (EAW).

On September 13, 2017, during his State of the Union address, the President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, announced the intention to propose new legislative measures that will boost the cybersecurity resilience within the EU.

On October 3, 2017, the European Parliament (EP) adopted a resolution on the fight against cybercrime.

On September 21, 2017, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 13722, imposing additional sanctions with respect to North Korea.

On September 21, 2017, Telia Company AB, an international telecommunications company based in Stockholm and formerly an issuer of publicly traded securities in the United States, and its Uzbek subsidiary, Coscom LLC, entered into a global foreign bribery settlement.  The settlement provides that it pay a combined total penalty of more than $965 million to settle criminal charges arising out of a scheme to pay bribes in Uzbekistan.

On September 20, 2017, Judge Michael Morris Baylson of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that taxpayer Arthur Bedrosian was not willful in his failure to comply with his Foreign Bank Account Report obligations.

On September 13, 2017, the Superintendency of Banks of Panama announced that it has taken enforcement efforts and imposed fines on three Panamanian banks, including the state-owned national Bank, Multibank, and Banvivienda “for failure to comply with the standards for the prevention of money laundering capital and for violations of the banking regime.”

On September 18, 2017, Panamanian and Mexican officials announced that Panama  has found Roberto Borge, who from 2010 to 2016, was governor of the state of Quintana Roo, extraditable on corruption charges.

On September 8, 2017, Europol and Austria submitted a note to the Standing Committee on Operational Cooperation on Internal Security (COSI) addressing the role of criminal hawala in financing a variety of illegal activities, including illegal immigration, money laundering, and terrorism. The document also offers several recommendations to combat criminal use of informal value transfer services.