A former high-level city official who oversaw contract compliance in Atlanta’s government was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison. He had failed to disclose that he also worked for a company that helped businesses seeking government construction contracts, according to a Department of Justice release.

Bulgaria’s Environment Minister announced his resignation on Friday following detention and questioning about his ministry’s alleged mismanagement of water supplies that have left an entire city almost dry. 

Montenegrin police say they found during a raid on Thursday nearly 100 people from Taiwan confined in three villas, where they were forced to commit unspecified cyber fraud that was targeting China and Taiwan.

Bolivia's interim government will open corruption investigations against nearly 600 officials of the previous administration, including against ex-President Evo Morales, AFP reported on Wednesday. 

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) released recordings of phone calls allegedly made by former Prime Minister Najib Razak on Thursday that further implicate him in the 1MDB scandal that saw US$4.5 billion embezzled out of the country’s sovereign wealth fund from 2009 to 2014. 

Nicholas Sarkozy will in October become France’s first former president to be tried for corruption, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court in Tashkent said it put on Wednesday Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, on trial for extortion, embezzlement of budget funds and money laundering abroad.

Carlos Ghosn, the ex-CEO of Nissan and Renault, refused during a press conference on Wednesday to explain how he managed to elude Japanese authorities in his recent Hollywood-style escape to Beirut, Lebanon, but said that he fled political persecution.

A Beijing court sentenced a former top official of the China Welfare Lottery to 11 years in prison for corruption that deprived the state budget of $108 million that could have been spent on social welfare.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that whistleblowers leaking information on tax evaders yielded over US$616 million in lost revenue to the US Treasury office this past fiscal year.