Acting police minister Firoz Cachalia says law enforcement authorities do not yet have all the answers when it comes to tackling the growing scourge of extortion, largely because victims are often too ...

The Deputy Inspector-General of Police in charge of the Force Intelligence Department, DIG Zachariah Fera-Achinyan, has described extortion, human rights abuses and other forms of misconduct by police ...

A growing wave of extortion cases across British Columbia is raising concerns in Kelowna after police confirmed two reported incidents in the city so far this year. Kelowna RCMP say investigators are ...

Insurance experts have urged organizations to reduce their exposure to extortion-only attacks and better manage the consequences when they occur, after revealing a surge in this category of threats.

A Supreme Court judge has been asked to overturn a suppression order masking the identity of a high-profile Queensland man named in an extortion case. Lawyers for four media outlets including the ABC ...

Members of the Mexican army and federal police at a crime scene after an organised crime shooting in Villa Juárez, Navolato, Sinaloa state. Photograph: Fernando Brito/AFP/Getty Images With corrupt ...

More than a dozen men in Peel Region have been arrested for allegedly extorting local businesses, but Punjabi community leaders in Brampton worry that the threats are not going to stop. Avi Dhaliwal ...

The India-based gang behind Canada’s extortion crisis sent a letter to a B.C. police station last year boasting that it had 1,000 foot soldiers willing to carry out shootings, a police officer ...

Seventeen male suspects, many of whom came to Canada from India on student visas and temporary work permits, have been criminally charged following a sweeping investigation into violent extortion ...

A woman in London was asked to pay up if she wanted a video of her removed from social media. Reading time 2 minutes There’s a growing number of reasons to be skeptical about camera-equipped smart ...

Federal authorities in New York have arrested and charged a lobbyist — one who had worked on behalf of an ex-nursing home operator pardoned recently by President Donald Trump — with attempting to ...

Michael Jackson's estate has scored a win in court as representatives take legal action against a former Jackson family friend whom they've accused of extortion. In a March 4 ruling filed in Los ...