Federal prosecutors in New York charged on Tuesday Turkey’s second-largest state-bank with money laundering and violating US sanctions against Iran.

Netflix’s upcoming film “The Laundromat” makes a fictionalized, star-studded comedy out of the 2016 Panama Papers scandal, turning Meryl Streep into a bereaved widow bent on exposing the illicit world of global tax evasion, and Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas into the cackling, flashily-dressed duo at the head of Mossack Fonseca & Co, the firm that was at the center of the Panama Papers investigation and that was once the fourth largest provider of offshore financial services. 

After having served as South Korean justice minister for only 35 days, Cho Kuk resigned on Monday in the face of an investigation into his wife’s alleged financial and academic-related misconduct, the Yonhap News Agency reports.

Organized crime groups are poised to take advantage of a possible no-deal Brexit that would leave the UK’s borders vulnerable to fraud, smuggling and criminal activity, a government watchdog is warning.

Slovakian police detained 45 suspects and seized nearly 13 million cigarettes, 22 tons of tobacco and three illegal tobacco factories in what authorities called the largest illegal cigarette manufacturing bust in Central Europe, the country’s financial authority reported on Wednesday.

Thirteen officers were killed on Monday when 30 people ambushed their convoy that was traveling towards the west Mexican municipality of Aguililla to carry out a court order, authorities said.

After the High Court rejected his application for a permanent stay of prosecution related to a US$2.5 billion deal with a French arms manufacturer, judges postponed on Tuesday the former South African president Jacob Zuma’s corruption trial until February next year, the South African Government News Agency announced. 

Papua New Guinea police issued an arrest warrant on Friday against the country’s ex-Prime Minister Peter O’Neill, accusing him of corruption, but said he refuses to leave the Crowne Plaza Hotel and cooperate with authorities.

A UK court will allow the case of Ukraine's PrivatBank to proceed, opening the door for the bank to recover nearly US$ 3 billion in frozen assets, which it says were stolen by its previous owners.

The pope’s chief bodyguard has resigned after an internal memo was leaked to the media, which identified five employees of the city-state who are facing investigation in the latest financial scandal gripping the Catholic Church.