Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko proposed new legislation to punish illegal enrichment just two days after Parliament launched an impeachment process against him for graft. 

Israeli authorities announced on Thursday they will indict Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery, fraud and breach of trust charges but Netanyahu labeled the move an opposition scheme intended to force him out of the running in the upcoming election.

Ukrainian lawmakers have launched the process to impeach President Petro Poroshenko following an eruptive media report linking him to a corruption scandal involving the President’s friends who have allegedly stolen from the country’s defense industry.

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych may have funneled 3.7 million euros (US$4.2 million) of bribe money through the Lithuanian branch of a Swedish bank, concealing it as royalty for a book he claimed he wrote about himself, according to Swedish TV station SVT.

A financial police force to investigate tax evasion and financial crime, an anti-money laundering watchdog and the phase out of the notorious Golden Visa scheme are now on the cards after a European Union (EU) Parliament committee adopted a report on financial crimes, tax evasion and tax avoidance on Wednesday.

In The Hunger Games’ dystopian nation of Panem, a small act of rebellion triggered a revolution against a tyrannical regime, launching Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, to be an unwitting hero of the resistance.

Brazil needs to enact wide-ranging reforms in its political and judicial systems and “move beyond purely punitive initiatives” to combat corruption, Transparency International Brasil said over the weekend.

Former Australian Taxation Office (ATO) employee turned whistleblower, Richard Boyle, has been charged with 66 offenses and could face up to 161 years in prison for exposing unethical practices in one of the country’s most powerful government agencies.

A former Brazilian politician charged in the Lava Jato investigation has admitted to accepting millions of dollars in bribes while governor of Rio de Janiero, in what could be the first sign of his cooperation with officials.

Cambodia has been placed on the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) anti-money laundering and terrorism financing watch-list, the inter-governmental body announced on Friday.