The Federal High Court in Abuja found on Tuesday the former spokesman of the country’s main opposition party guilty of corruption and money laundering, AFP reported.

Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan appeared in a Yerevan court on Tuesday to face corruption charges which he claims were politically motivated, RFE/RL reported.

Authorities in Stockholm could not confirm claims made by Swedish media that Swedbank's former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen will be questioned about the money-laundering scandal involving accounts at the bank’s Baltic branches.

The United States granted asylum to Guatemala’s former chief prosecutor just days after her country filed an extradition request based on embezzlement, lying and tax fraud charges she claims were raised in retaliation for her anti-corruption efforts.

Bulgaria’s prosecution office said on Monday it will ask Spanish authorities to provide information about an alleged money laundering investigation that might link the country’s long-serving prime minister Boyko Borisov to assets in Spain worth roughly five million euro (US$5.4 million).

Spanish police detained 20 suspected members of an organized crime group that ran an illegal cigarette factory in a bunker hidden four meters below the ground at a horse stable near Malaga. Workers inside were locked up for days and almost suffocated due to lack of air. 

The embezzlement trial of former French presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife Peneloppe that was to start on Monday has been postponed because of a lawyers strike.

A Brazilian court has sent a former shipbuilding firm consultant to jail for 19 years after judges found him guilty of bribing officials of the state-controlled oil company Petrobras in order to obtain construction contracts. 

Switzerland’s Financial Market Authority (FINMA) banned on Thursday one of the largest Swiss multinational private banks from conducting any significant acquisitions after finding it failed to combat money laundering between 2009 and early 2018.

The Dutch Fiscal Intelligence and Investigation Services (FIOD) arrested two men Monday on suspicion of laundering millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, according to a joint statement by the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (J5).