South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered Jacob Zuma, the country’s former president, to turn himself in to authorities by Monday after sentencing him to 15 months in prison for contempt of court.

A virtual private network (VPN) service that “provided a safe haven for cybercriminals to attack their victims” has been shut down following a global operation spanning nine countries, Europol said in a statement Wednesday.

Spanish and Portuguese authorities struck against an organized criminal group smuggling millions of dollars worth of illegal tobacco products, Europol announced in a statement Friday. 

In Russia,  local news reports that a sophisticated black market for fake vaccine cards is thriving in secret Telegram forums even as COVID-19 runs rampant through the country.

President Volodymyr Zelensky is picking up speed on his mission to dethrone Ukraine’s oligarchs, the small group of very rich and influential people with an outsized influence on the country’s government.

A high-level member of the hacker group known as FIN7 was sentenced June 24 to seven years in prison and ordered to pay US$2.5 million in restitution.

Corruption in Myanmar’s jade industry extends all the way to the top of the country’s military, including the family of the country's Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing, UK-based NGO Global Witness claimed in its latest report on Tuesday.

Secret meetings or messages between politicians and lobbyists would be banned in Australia’s New South Wales (NSW) as part of a series of reform recommendations being pushed by the state’s anti-corruption commission.

Georgia’s General Prosecutor’s Office has questioned the veracity of tapes which appear to show Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Bera Ivanishvili, the son of the ruling “Georgian Dream” party’s founder and former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili, plotting revenge on a local school boy who had posted negative comments on Bera’s facebook page. 

Peruvian presidential election candidate Keiko Fujimori, who is on trial for corruption and money laundering, still remains out of state custody after surviving a prosecutor’s failed attempted to return her to jail.