The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) would need to double its budget in order to adequately fight organized crime, which is the nation’s top security threat, the agency said in a press release on Tuesday.

The European Commission announced on Friday that it would open an investigation into the largest Swedish telecom company’s latest potential acquisition over monopoly concerns.

A new anti-corruption unit is being established in the Garda, Ireland’s police force, to respond to complaints and investigate internal corruption among members of the force.

Many Venezuelan fleeing their troubled country fall prey to human traffickers as they search for a better life, Transparency International warned in a press release on Monday.

Brazil’s former president Michel Temer surrendered himself to the country’s federal police for the second time on Thursday, after he was arrested and let go in March over his involvement in a massive corruption scandal that implicated top politicians across Latin America.

Danske bank on Friday appointed a new CEO to replace Thomas Borgen, who was charged along with nine other managers over their involvement in one of the biggest money laundering scandals in history, reported Berlingske.

Canadian authorities are failing to catch 99.9 percent of money laundering in the country which means that US$75 billion to $100 billion of dirty money from all over the world are laundered through Canada each year, according to the author of a policy brief released Monday.

Citing irregularities, Turkish officials announced on Monday they would nullify the results of Istanbul’s March 31 mayoral election that saw an opposition politician defeat a ruling party candidate by 13,000 votes.

Three Germans have been charged on Friday by US prosecutors with administering one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces, Wall Street Market, a site with thousands of listings for drugs, contraband, counterfeit goods and illegal narcotics.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Wednesday a divisive bill into law that aims to increase the country’s sovereignty over its Internet and help defend against foreign cyber attacks. Critics, however, claim the law will further limit the country’s media freedom.