Margaret Hunter, the wife of US Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, changed her plea on Thursday from not guilty to guilty of misusing quarter of a million dollars of campaign funds to pay for lavish vacations, extravagant parties, and other personal expenses.

A brief Parliamentary exchange between Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the leader of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, on Tuesday provides a glimpse into the politicization of the country’s money laundering crisis, whose depth and scale, while a longtime “open secret”, was only more recently made public.

Mexican journalist Norma Sarabia Garduza, who reported on organized crime in the country’s southeast Tabasco State, was murdered Tuesday evening in front of her home in the city of Huimanguillo, the State Attorney confirmed. Norma Sarabia is the sixth journalist killed in Mexico this year.

A new report published Tuesday by Europol and the European Union Intellectual Property Office delves into the changing trends in the world of counterfeit goods that are increasingly run by organized crime groups.

Two former Algerian prime ministers have been detained this week for their involvement in a corruption scandal in a sweeping purge of officials that have served the Bouteflika government.

Moscow police detained about 200 out of the 2,000 people who marched on Wednesday to show support for journalist Ivan Golunov, even though he was released a day earlier.

The Communist Party of China said on Tuesday it placed a top official from the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia under investigation in what seems to be a sequel of the country’s anti-graft campaign.

U.S. Transportation Department Secretary Elaine Chao oversaw the creation of a special liaison to help the state of Kentucky secure federal funds for state projects, prompting Politico to question whether the state received special treatment because Chao’s husband, Mitch McConnell, is a Kentucky senator.

The Russian Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday that charges against Ivan Golunov were dropped and he was released from custody. He also said that he petitioned the Kremlin for officials involved in the case to be investigated.

Police in Northern Ireland seized weapons, drugs and illicit cigarettes from a pro-unification paramilitary group on Tuesday.