A U.S. judge sentenced the former CEO of Gulf Keystone, an oil company whose backroom deals with Iraqi-Kurdish politicians nearly led to its downfall, to five years in prison for tax evasion, the U.S. Department of Justice revealed last week.

In 2020, Pakistani officials blocked a massive shipment of illegally trapped falcons, including endangered species, from being trafficked out of the country to markets in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

The federal court in the Southern District of Mississippi sentenced  a pharmacist to five years in prison for a multimillion-dollar healthcare fraud scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) reported on Wednesday.

Bulgarian police took down an online investment scam and money laundering network on Wednesday, alleging a single member personally defrauded German and Greek investors of more than €10 million (US$11,142,350).

According to this year's Corruption Perception Index (CPI), Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) tied Albania in the Balkan region, ranking 110th out of 180 countries, Transparency International reported on Tuesday.

Spain’s National Police Tuesday dismantled a division of a transnational crime group that sells fake Covid-19 passports throughout the European Union (EU), some of which were listed in the country’s National Vaccination Registry.

In a major blow to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s anti-corruption drive, the global corruption watchdog Transparency International has ranked Pakistan as 140th of 180 countries on the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2021.

The U.S. and Nigeria signed an agreement last week to stem the flow of illegally trafficked cultural material out of the West African state.

An eight-week-long global operation codenamed Golden Strike resulted in arrests and seizures across Asia and Africa, INTERPOL reported Monday.

A Mexican journalist who investigated corruption around the country and had been fearful for her life since 2019 was shot and killed outside her home in Tijuana on Sunday.