More than 300 Nigerian boys and men, some as young as five, have been rescued during a raid on an Islamic school in which some of them were found in chains, beaten and sexually abused, CNN reported.
A Japanese electric company admitted on Friday that two dozen of its employees had received some 320 million yen (US$2.97 million) in cash and goods from a former deputy mayor of Takahama, a city hosting the company’s nuclear plant, Japanese The Mainichi daily reported.
An Azerbaijani lawmaker resigned on Monday after a video surfaced last week that showed him trying to repay a US$300,000 personal loan he took from a woman by offering her a government-owned house instead.
A former Mexican Attorney General was convicted of protecting and facilitating a cartel’s drug trafficking activities and has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to a Thursday press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York.
A US Coast Guard crew captured a 40-foot (12-meter) long submarine on Tuesday that was carrying nearly 5.5 tons of cocaine worth US$ 164 million.
Mexico’s president backed the head of the national electricity company, despite charges that he concealed some of his business dealings and made substantial, illicit profits, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
Telecom equipment producer Ericsson AB expects to pay a record US$1 billion to settle a US corruption probe concerning its conduct in six countries, the company statement said on Wednesday.
Pakistani authorities arrested last week the former head of Karachi’s parks and horticulture, who is suspected of having embezzled Rs 1 billion (US$6.4 million) through fake companies he had established to repair 71 non-existent parks over the past two decades.
Thousands of Indonesians, many of them students, battled police during protests against a law that some say will weaken the nation’s anti-corruption body, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.