Austria’s Supreme Court upheld on Tuesday a decision to extradite Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the United States, where he will face trial for bribery and suspected ties to organized crime. 

Days after escaping extradition back to China in a hearing at the Swedish Supreme Court, a former Chinese official was arrested again and is now facing extradition to the United States, the Business Times reported on Tuesday. 

An organization promoting democracy and free markets in the Americas published a brand new index on Monday calculating the ability for Latin American countries to combat corruption, differentiating itself from other indexes that calculate “levels” of corruption around the world.

Using over a dozen credit cards in the name of her imprisoned husband, her bodyguard and her driver, Zamira Hajiyeva, blew across Europe nearly 20 million dollars of money she and her husband embezzled from the Azerbaijani national bank, media reported on Monday.  

Colombian investigators on Friday ordered the protection of 11 soldiers who testified against former General Mario Montoya and former Colonel Hernan Mejia who are accused of killing civilians after having dressed them as rebel fighters, according to Colombia Reports.

Italy has been looking for him for a quarter of a century and was awaiting his extradition when the Uruguayan Interior Ministry announced on Monday that Milan’s “cocaine king,” Rocco Morabito, had escaped from prison. 

Bosnia’s top judicial official - embroiled in an ongoing corruption scandal surrounding allegations of bribery - has stated that he plans to take legal action against those he claims “defamed” him, local news reported Friday.

The Mexican Government auctioned on Sunday luxurious properties seized from criminal cartels, raising only one third of the expected US$8.8 million as buyers showed limited appetite for gang safe houses and mansions with swimming pools and escape tunnels that belonged to drug traffickers.

Czech flags and signs stating “We don’t want Babis” filled Prague’s Letna Plain park on Sunday as over 250,000 protesters demanded Prime Minister Andrej Babis resign over allegations of fraud.

Authorities in 78 countries detained hundreds of people and seized tampered, intentionally mislabeled, and outright dangerous food worth US$117 million, Interpol announced on Friday.