Guatemalan police have arrested two U.S. citizens who were accused of jeopardizing the nation's natural and cultural heritage by trying to take a total of 166 Mayan artifacts out of the country.

Of the last three presidents of El Salvador, the administration of Nayib Bukele has seen the highest average rate of disappearances of people, said a report released by the University Observatory of Human Rights last week.

Peru’s Congress voted on Wednesday to accept charges filed by the country’s top prosecutor against President Pedro Castillo who is accused of leading a criminal organization after evidence of influence-peddling and acts of collusion were found.

The U.S. sanctioned on Wednesday six senior employees of the Iranian state-run media corporation for broadcasting hundreds of coerced confessions of Iranian, dual national, and foreign inmates in Iran.

Turkish Authorities arrested this week more than 200 people suspected of financial and smuggling related crimes, Turkey’s interior ministry said in a statement.

Former Special Adviser to the Congolese President Vidiye Tshimanga appeared in court in Kinshasa on Monday facing charges of passive corruption, insults to the head of the state and influence peddling. He resigned on September 16 after a tape released and analyzed by OCCRP showed him negotiating a corrupt mining deal.

The G20 leaders who convened in Bali earlier this week agreed on a number of points including condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, addressing food insecurity and adopting measures to mitigate the climate crisis but not on how to fight kleptocracy and transnational corruption, Transparency International’ told OCCRP on Wednesday.

Iraq’s Federal Commission of Integrity (Nazaha) announced Wednesday the formation of a supreme commission mandated to investigate major and important corruption cases that senior officials have described as a serious threat to the state.

The Swiss government set forth a motion Monday to amend the Banking Act, which currently prevents the press from investigating and reporting on matters related to the finance sector, following revelations that criminals and the corrupt can launder their ill-gotten gains through the country’s banks with minimal fear of exposure.

The United States’ 5th Fleet seized a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman that was smuggling a considerable amount of explosive material from Iran to war-torn Yemen, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs said Tuesday in a statement.