An international organised crime-watchdog has warned that Iranian weapons and ammunition supplied to Houthi insurgents in Yemen may be making their way onto East Africa’s black market.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev stripped on Monday the country’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, Eldar Hasanov, of his post after authorities arrested the former diplomat last week in Baku, accusing him of embezzlement of budget funds.

Spanish National Police arrested 12 people suspected of organizing a sham marriage network that facilitated illegal immigration into the European Union, Europol said in a statement on Wednesday.

Some 50 million masks the U.K. purchased as part of a US$326 million contract will not be used by the NHS due to fears of defects, a non-profit organization said. 

A Federal Court in Boston sent on Wednesday a Canadian citizen behind bars for artificially inflating stocks owned by him and his co-conspirators with the intention to generate US$15 million in fraudulent proceeds.

A 62-year-old Cuban who once tried to buy a Russian submarine to help Colombian suppliers smuggle drugs to the U.S. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a large amount of high-grade marijuana to Florida, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday.

Authorities detained 56 members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party (PML-N) who on Tuesday clashed with police in front of the government anti-corruption office in Lahore where the daughter of the party founder, Nawaz Sharif, was summoned in a graft case.

The president of Mexico has accused his predecessors of allowing the country to become a “narco-state”, as cartel violence continues to rage and allegations of corruption mount against high-profile former officials.

German authorities raided on Tuesday the business and the residence of an individual suspected of money laundering as part of an investigation involving the “Troika Laundromat,” a multi-billion dollar scheme uncovered by OCCRP last year.

Police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina turned against some of their colleagues on Wednesday, detaining 17 traffic policemen suspected of abusing their posts and taking bribes to pardon irresponsible drivers.