South African activists protested outside the German consulate in Cape Town on Thursday in an attempt to hold a German-based company accountable for incompatible locomotives acquired in a deal they claim was dubious and involved bribes.

Football, free ports, and “golden visas” are among the seven new supranational risk areas for money laundering and financial terrorism, according to the European Commission in its latest series of reports on Europe’s anti-money laundering capabilities published Wednesday. 

Police in Hong Kong arrested six people on Monday suspected of having participated in a mob attack against people on the subway the night before.

The United Kingdom generated an additional US$42 billion over the past fiscal year by cracking down on corruption and tax evasion, the country’s tax authority announced last week.

Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans erupted in cheers of joy in the wee hours of the morning Thursday as embattled Puerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation after having resisted public pressure for weeks.

An ex-Credit Suisse banker admitted last week he took kickbacks in a scheme that saw state-owned companies in Mozambique take US$2 billion in loans which helped drive the country into default on its debt, Reuters reported on Friday.

Hours after Serbian investigative outlet KRIK revealed that the brother of the country’s Finance Minister was using a car owned by two businessmen who regularly receive lucrative government contracts, a pro-regime tabloid accused a KRIK reporter of harassing the brother’s girlfriend and her baby.

The Tajik anti-corruption agency announced that corruption charges were filed against Saidjamol Mirakov, the deputy head of the Rudaki District’s Energy Network, after he supposedly misappropriated over US$16,000.

Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte called on the government to reimpose the death penalty for drug traffickers and to root out systematic corruption during Monday’s State of the Nation Address.

For nearly fifteen years, the banner on the front page of one of Gambia’s daily newspapers, The Point, has asked the same question each morning: Who killed Deyda Hydara? 

An answer was finally delivered at a Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission session on Monday, when an officer from the Gambia Armed Forces admitted to having belonged to the killing squad that murdered one of Gambia’s most respected journalists on the orders of former president Yahya Jammeh.