The appellate court in Almaty upheld on Thursday charges against a Kazakh activist who during a marathon race filmed people holding a banner that read “You cannot run away from the truth,” which authorities interpreted as participating in an unauthorized rally.
The European Union launched on Thursday a €2.2 million (US $2.5 million) initiative to fight corruption and organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
United Australia Party leader Clive Palmer has contributed AUS$70 million (US$48.2 million) to his party’s campaign, which ends on election day this Saturday, most of which he earned thanks to tax cuts he helped pass, media reported on Thursday.
The EU’s threats to withdraw Romania’s voting rights, funding, and to block it from entering the visa-free Schengen area over the country’s addressal of corruption is “wrong” and “dangerous,” Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă said on Wednesday.
European police authorities said on Tuesday they had busted a criminal network that sold fake olive oil in Germany and Italy.
South African officials this week will hear testimony about how a major bank managed to strip millions of dollars off of a loan that was supposed to go to building railways and ports for the people of South Africa, local media reported.
The Bulgarian Parliament overwhelmingly accepted on Wednesday the resignation of Agriculture Minister Rumen Porozhanov, the latest government official to step down amidst a number of real estate scandals rocking the country.
Georgian activists asked the Parliament to sack a top judicial official after media revealed he was fraudulently elected and had ties to a clan alleged to control the country’s judiciary.
The Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh on Sunday promised assistance to Cambodian police after a video surfaced in which a Chinese gangster declares he will seize control of a major Cambodian city while 20 other men, shirtless and tattooed, cheer him on.
A Canadian manufacturing giant allegedly paid millions of dollars of bribes to win a contract in Azerbaijan--and then obstructed a World Bank investigation into its wrongdoing, according to internal World Bank documents obtained by the Globe and Mail last week.