France’s National Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has launched a preliminary investigation into the personal wealth of Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor, Riad Salame, following two complaints filed last month with the judicial institution that deals exclusively with financial affairs.

Czech authorities announced last week possible charges against Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for fraud involving EU tax subsidies, but they later reportedly passed the case to the new European Public Prosecutor's Office, launched last week to handle financial crimes against the EU.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) said on Monday he “deeply regrets” El Salvador’s decision to pull out of an anti-corruption commission, but accused the country of "asphyxiating" the body and "completely curtailing its investigative possibilities."

A Georgian court ordered on Saturday the evacuation of children from a Church-run boarding school for orphans after the local archbishop refused to let authorities enter the school and look into allegations of violence and sexual abuse of children.

U.S. President Joe Biden is putting global anti-corruption efforts at the center of U.S. foreign policy, according to a new National Security Study Memorandum released Thursday.

U.S. prosecutors have charged six people for conspiring to launder US$3.5 million in proceeds derived from romance scams, a profitable fraud scheme on the rise that defrauded hundreds of millions of dollars from American victims last year.

Latvian state police confiscated last week real estate worth nearly US$280,000 believed to have been criminally acquired through a large international money laundering scheme that was revealed by late Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, according to a press release.

A U.S. court sentenced on Thursday a whistleblower and former Treasury Department employee to six months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for giving a reporter confidential information about suspicious money transfers worth more than $2 trillion that were flagged by banks.

A combination of corporate greed and government failures in relation to the expanding palm oil plantations in Western Indonesia harmed surrounding communities and caused  mass environmental destruction, a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found on Thursday.

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) opened on Wednesday a probe into allegations that Environment Minister Ricardo Salles obstructed environmental inspections involving the largest seizure of illegally chopped wood in the history of Brazil.