Portuguese authorities tore down Europe's second largest counterfeit currency networks, arresting five individuals Monday on charges of counterfeiting and criminal association.

Applicants for land deeds in Bangladesh must pay substantial bribes, according to a report released Monday by Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB).

Eritrea tops the list of the most censored countries in the world, where sophisticated digital censorship and surveillance have been added to “more traditional methods to silence media,” the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said in a special report.

An investigative story on Ukraine’s oligarchs that OCCRP published in partnership with the Ukrainian outlet Slidstvo was shortlisted for a new media award - “Plumes libres pour la démocratie” - recently established by the Paris-based weekly Courrier International.

Omar al-Bashir once enjoyed sole access to a room containing millions of euros, his office manager told the court during the corruption trial against Sudan’s former leader, Reuters reported on Saturday.

Authorities in Bosnia arrested on Thursday three former Sberbank employees who are suspected of money laundering and have allegedly deprived the bank of more than one million Konvertible Marks.

Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht SA agreed to pay US$50 million to NGO and charities as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that its subsidiary bribed public officials in two projects financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the IDB Group, which is the leading source of development finance for Latin America and the Caribbean, said in a statement on Wednesday.

Reporting is getting more and more dangerous each year, with a total of 1,350 journalists killed worldwide since 1992, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).

The son of Lithuania’s first president’s widow was sentenced on Friday for tax fraud in a criminal case launched after OCCRP’s Lithuanian partners exposed his property in Florida and illegal possession of some 400 thousand dollars.

Organized crime is to be blamed for the Amazon deforestation and that’s a transnational problem, Brazilian Attorney General said on Monday at the start of a two-day meeting with Eurojust.