Police in Ukraine have detained five people suspected of killing Belarusian investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet in a car bomb attack in July 2016, Reuters reported.

The new CEO of a Swedish bank plagued by money-laundering scandals told Estonian national TV that the bank had a poor management and that he plans to make changes on the top level.

Italian and French police have broken up a gang responsible for smuggling more than 1,000 illegal migrants into Europe over the past year.

A former senior Australian bureaucrat, who a month ago tried to kill himself after he was charged with corruption, is set to plead guilty, his lawyer told Australia’s ABC news on Friday.  

Authorities seized 6.5 million Canadian dollars (US$4.9 million) worth of methamphetamine in a 16-month operation called Project Declass, according to a Tuesday press release by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Because his health deteriorated while in detention for corruption, the High Court in Islamabad released Thursday former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on bail, his lawyer said.

A dozen of hotel chains across the US have been accused by victims of profiting from sex trafficking by ignoring obvious signs of exploatation in their rooms, CNN reported on Wednesday.

A rising number of organized crime groups are turning their attention to Europe’s lucrative drug trafficking market, Europol said on Wednesday. By now, one-third of the 5,000 gangs operating in the European Union is involved in the production, trafficking, distributing and selling of drugs.

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov will preside over the country’s anti-graft body,  the Commission for Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CIAF), the Bulgarian Parliament decided on Wednesday.

Mexico’s former security minister has been arrested in the United States on charges of cocaine trafficking and accepting millions in bribes to help the Sinaloa cartel traffic drugs.