A company registered in a residential row house in a small Dutch town appears to have been part of a recently revealed Russian money laundering scheme that moved billions of dollars to the west, the Dutch daily newspaper Trouw discovered.

Transparency Germany announced Thursday it has filed a criminal complaint against two politicians, one member of Parliament (the Bundestag), and another former MP, for their roles in an alleged bribery case masterminded by the Azerbaijani government known as the Azerbaijani Laundromat.

Ugandan authorities are investigating unexplained imports of 7.4 tonnes of gold worth US$300 million that is suspected of originating with President Maduro’s regime in Venezuela.

Finance Minister Harris Georgiades announced on Friday his intention to step down a week after a special committee blamed him for the collapse of the Cyprus Co-operative Bank (CCB) and accused him of corruption.

Over twenty members of the European Parliament demanded on Thursday sanctions against two bankers whose banks were involved in a money-laundering scheme that has moved billions of dollars from Russia to the west.

A prominent Venezuelan journalist who had been reporting on the country’s political crisis was released from detention by authorities late Tuesday after spending over 24 hours in lockup.

The head of Danske Bank’s Estonian branch said that he “feels responsible” for the scandal that befell the branch in the wake of the 2017 revelations that many of the transactions worth 200 billion euros (US $226 billion) were suspicious, but that he did nothing wrong he told OCCRP’s Estonian partner Postimees.

Francesco Cali, the reputed boss of New York’s Gambino crime family, was fatally shot outside his home on Staten Island on Wednesday night, in the first targeted killing of a mob boss in the city in over 30 years.

Ukraine’s new State Bureau of Investigation will look into allegations that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies accepted bribes in exchange for closing probes into a corruption scheme that saw cronies of the president illegally extract millions from the country’s defense industry.

Dozens of parents, including Hollywood actresses, have been arrested and charged alongside test administrators and elite college sports coaches in multiple states across the US in a multi-million dollar scheme that facilitated admission into elite colleges across the US in return for bribes.