The Supreme Court of Colombia sentenced a former prosecutor to five years and four months in prison for bribery after she agreed to testify against several other justice officials, El Tiempo, the country’s main daily newspaper reported on Sunday. 

An Austrian bank caught facilitating money laundering said on Monday that it filed for bankrupcy, ending almost a century in banking for one of Austria’s most famous families.

Slovaks elected an anti-corruption party on Saturday following a two-years-long political turmoil that erupted after the murder of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak which exposed the connections between the ruling Smer party and businessmen involved in fraud and tax evasion.

Money laundering heightened a drug overdose crisis, led to skyrocketing real estate prices and distorted the economy of the Canadian province of British Columbia, officials told a public hearing earlier this week.

A London court cleared on Friday three Barclays’s executives of fraud charges that claimed they funneled US$418 million in secret fees to Qatar in return of rescuing the UK-based bank from a state takeover during the 2008 financial crisis.

Niger’s police have arrested 18 suspects of human trafficking and crimes against children and have rescued 232 of their victims, INTERPOL said in a statement on Wednesday.

The imprisoned daughter of Uzbekistan's late president has offered to return US$686 million to the country's treasury if the court drops the latest case against her.

The 2014 arrest and pre-trial detention of Azerbaijani journalist and OCCRP contributor Khadija Ismayilova was unlawful and politically motivated, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday. 

Spanish authorities have raided the properties of two prominent football agents suspected of organizing fictitious transfers of players through a Cypriot club to launder a large amount of money and evade taxes.

Several Montenegrin citizens have been detained when authorities of the Caribbean island of Aruba intercepted earlier this week a ship carrying tons of cocaine destined for Europe, Montenegro’s Police Directorate told OCCRP on Thursday.