Azerbaijan authorities have detained five people, including the husband of the director of one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical companies, for trying to smuggle face masks to China as fears about the coronavirus pandemic spike.
Pakistan’s anti-corruption watchdog has launched an investigation into alleged corruption and misuse of funds at a multi-million dollar water supply project outside of Karachi after the project’s costs quadrupled.
The US believes it has enough evidence to prosecute a Swiss bank for its alleged role in a US$2 billion corruption scandal in Mozambique, according to Reuters.
An inventive gang has over the past few years developed a lucrative, illegal business: they rent bulldozers and similar machines from construction companies in Germany and sell them to construction companies in other EU countries.
Citing decades-old graft allegations, Pakistan arrested the owner and editor-in-chief of the country’s largest media group in a move seen by activists as an attempt to silence media critical of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s government.
In a series of nationwide raids, US authorities made more than 600 arrests and issued 350 indictments against suspected members of one of the world’s most violent gangs - the Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación or CJNG.
Slovak police said they have arrested 18 people, including 13 judges, who allegedly obstructed justice in the case of the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancee in 2018.
The UK is planning a £100 million (US$130 million) levy on companies and banks to combat money laundering, according to the country’s 2020 budget proposal that was published on Wednesday.
A Brazilian lawmaker proposed on Tuesday a bill suggesting that politicians convicted of corruption should be punished with amputation of both hands, Reuters reported.