The U.S. Treasury Department on Monday announced that it has re-imposed economic sanctions on an Israeli billionaire, accused of “extensive” public corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo, after the Trump administration lifted them in its final days in office.

Of the US$245 billion lost around the globe each year to corporate tax abuse, over two-thirds are extracted by jurisdictions that are members of the main organization responsible for writing the global standards, the Tax Justice Network revealed on Tuesday upon release of its 2021 Corporate Tax Haven Index. 

The European Banking Authority, EBA, said it has become the most recent victim of a cyber-attack, which Microsoft said last week was orchestrated by Chinese spies.

A Tunisian court sentenced the brother-in-law of ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali to 10 years in prison for corruption, but he is unlikely to serve his sentence back home as France is refusing to extradite him, citing the potential of ill-treatment in Tunisian jails. 

Experts say that Nigeria’s willingness to pay ransoms, something the government denies, is making school kidnappings ever more attractive to organized criminals, who have abducted more than 600 students since December last year.

The U.S. State Department banned one of Ukraine’s most powerful oligarchs, Ihor Kolomoisky, from entering the United States because of his involvement in “significant corruption,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement on Friday.

A judge ordered one of Equatorial Guinea’s most influential lawyers, NJ Ayuk, to apologize and retract a series of defamatory statements he made against Delfin Mochache Massoko, a journalist who partnered with OCCRP on an investigation that exposed how millions of dollars were allegedly siphoned in bribes by the country's oil minister. 

Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao has abused the power and the resources of her office to help promote her father’s new book, speed up the process of a work visa, and run personal errands, a report released by the Department of Transportation said.

The multimillion-dollar trade in Oriental magpie-robins appears to be intensifying in Malaysia, with thousands of wild birds trapped and trafficked for Indonesians seeking caged pets, according to a report published Friday.

Colombia is considering centralizing the purchase of gold to combat illegal mining, violence, and environmental damage and prevent the mineral from entering the black market.