Hundreds of prisoners have escaped from four open prisons in south-east Brazil after they were told they will no longer be able to leave the facility and nobody can visit them due to the coronavirus outbreak, the Secretariat of Public Security of Sao Paulo announced on Tuesday.
An Azerbaijani journalist was released on Tuesday after having served two of the six years he was sentenced to by a Baku court despite criticism from human rights organizations which claimed the charges were baseless.
Due to the spread of the coronavirus, a Hawaiian judge postponed on Monday the sentencing of a former high-ranking Honolulu prosecutor and her husband, a retired police chief in Hawaii's biggest corruption investigation, the Associated Press (AP) reported.
King Felipe VI said he will renounce his inheritance in response to the largest corruption scandal implicating the Spanish royal family since the county’s transition to democracy at the end of the 1970’s. But some say the announcement is meaningless as the law won’t let him do that.
A London court will suspend the corruption trial of three former energy industry executives for at least two weeks amid attempts to quell the spread of coronavirus in the country.
During the particularly severe 2017 drought, Cape Town, South Africa’s largest city, narrowly escaped the dreaded “Day Zero” - the day the city would run out of water. Smaller, mostly poorer communities were not so lucky.
Coronavirus travel restrictions have stalled Sweden’s investigation into an international fraud carried out by a sham Ukrainian investment company, according to Dagens Nyheter.
The Saudi anti-corruption authority said on Sunday that it has detained 298 government employees suspected of bribery, embezzlement, waste of public funds, and misuse of office.
The trial of the suspected killer of journalist Jan Kuciak has been delayed due to the spread of COVID-19, a Slovak court announced on Monday, according to Reuters.
The coronavirus pandemic has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu an unexpected boon, delaying his corruption trial by two months.