Canada’s financial watchdog found that many real-estate companies are violating money laundering rules as they are neither checking the identities of their clients, nor are they reporting large cash deals to the government.
The European Parliament accused the prime minister of the Czech Republic of hate speech on Friday after he called EU lawmakers who led a corruption investigation against him “insane.”
The Ukrainian Parliament approved a new government after President Volodymyr Zelensky who came to power on an anti-corruption campaign fired the old ministers, saying they performed poorly and that the country needs “new brains.”
Experts have warned that Brazil’s decision to remove checks on timber exports will drastically exacerbate illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
A legal expert said that Pakistan’s chances to make the U.K. send back a former Pakistani prime minister who was convicted for corruption but allowed to visit London are slim and that the request was most likely made to appease his supporters.
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Tuesday that Russian authorities have blocked all of his bank accounts as well as those belonging to his family, including the one his 11-year-old son used to save money to buy a laptop and the ones his retired parents received their pensions on.
German police arrested six suspected members of a gang that made significant profits from trafficking people from Vietnam to Germany and making them work in nail parlors and sweatshops to pay off their debts.
Prosecutors in the US have charged two Chinese nationals for allegedly laundering money stolen during a cyberattack on a virtual currency exchange by North Korean hackers.
The South African real estate regulator is launching a probe into allegations that an agency violated financial regulatory laws when it sold properties worth US$3.2 million to the family of a former Mozambican president.
The Swedish government is demanding a decisive international response to online scams in the wake of a media investigation into a fraudulent Ukrainian investment company that stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from vulnerable would-be investors.