UK authorities have put a Chinese man behind bars for renting out hundreds of properties to gangs to be used in prostitution, drug trafficking and human smuggling.

Malaysia’s state prosecutor told media on Friday that he still plans to bring Goldman Sachs executives to court over their role in the country’s biggest corruption affair ever, even though the Wall Street bank is reportedly close to reaching a settlement with the US.

The phrase food crime usually entails mixing watermelon and lentils or decorating a glass of milk with hot dogs. But an organized crime group in Spain may have given it a new meaning when it poisoned 27 people with illegally poached clams.

Italy’s police said Friday that 334 mafia-linked suspects were detained in an early Thursday morning operation that was conducted simultaneously in four countries. Among the suspects are prominent politicians, lawyers, accountants and a police chief.

Eight months after she was appointed as Mexico’s first ever Chief Anticorruption Prosecutor, Luz Mijangos Borja has opened 680 investigations, an “impressive” early track record considering the challenges she faced, said a US-based blog covering the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

A few days after a former SNC-Lavalin executive was found guilty of paying kickbacks and bribing Libyan officials, the Canadian engineering giant said it will pay US$213 million to settle the two corruption cases.

The Pakistan government said it wants to remove a judge who headed the panel that sentenced former President and army General Pervez Musharraf to death, because the ruling also ordered his body to be left hanging on a square if he dies before execution.

Since the beginning of this year, Angola’s fight against corruption has seen more than five billion US dollars in assets recovered both locally and internationally, the country’s state news agency ANGOP reported on Tuesday. 

Brazilian investigators raided on Wednesday a number of properties connected to President Jair Bolsonaro’s son Flávio, a senator, who is suspected of having overseen a corruption racket during his tenure as a Rio congressman, according to local reports. 

The University of Southern California said on Friday it was informed by the organization that regulates US athletic programs about allegations pertaining to corruption and bribery within its basketball program.