In just one year Egyptian authorities seized a record LE3.4 billion (US$178 million) from money laundering crimes, government officials said on Tuesday.

A number of top Brazilian prosecutors, including current Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, conspired to prevent former left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers’ Party from winning the 2018 presidential elections, according to an exclusive report published by The Intercept on Sunday evening. 

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whom former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev picked as his successor when he stepped down at the beginning of this year, was sworn in on Wednesday after mass arrests and vote-rigging concerns marked his Sunday election victory.

Former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, widower of late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was arrested on Monday in Islamabad over a fake bank accounts and money laundering case, the country’s anti-graft watchdog National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said.

In what would be an unprecedented legal move, Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel is considering applying federal racketeering laws to prosecute officials within the Catholic Church for their roles in covering up clerical sex abuse, according to an Associated Press investigation published Tuesday morning.  

A former Russian anti-corruption official was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Monday for being corrupt himself and was sent to a maximum security correctional facility, according to The Moscow Times.

The head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo harshly criticized the Kosovo police during Monday’s UN Security Council meeting for the arrest of two UN staffers accused of hooliganism.

Meduza has allowed media free distribution of Ivan Golunov’s investigations that were previously copyrighted in order to spread the work of the journalist, whom authorities have put under house arrest after accusing him of drug dealing.

The reputations of the police chief in charge of the investigation and the doctor who assessed the condition of Ivan Golunov, the journalist who was arrested last week and charged with intent to sell drugs, have come under fire for their opaque histories.

A Delhi doctor was arrested Saturday for his involvement in an international kidney racket plot, according to Indian media.