A Tanzanian Magistrate’s Court sentenced on Tuesday Chinese businesswoman Yang Feng Glan, nicknamed “Ivory Queen,” to 15 years in prison for running a large-scale smuggling operation which delivered ivory from the tusks of more than 350 elephants, worth US $6.4 million, to Asia.
A Maldives court ordered the detention of former President Yameen Abdul Gayoom on Monday for the duration of his money laundering trial, following reports he is attempting to bribe witnesses.
A Stockholm district court acquitted the former chief executive and two senior managers of telecommunications giant Telia Company of bribery charges stemming from the company’s expansion into Uzbekistan.
Russia’s State Duma is considering a new law which would make it easier to prosecute the heads of organized crime networks who often avoid direct involvement in crimes, creating a charge of “holding a high position in a criminal hierarchy.”
OCCRP’s Bulgarian partner Bivol has identified a Bulgarian lawyer as the owner of a bank account allegedly used to launder hundreds of millions of dirty dollars on behalf of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.
Authorities in the Malaysian province of Sabah discovered two high-volume facilities containing thousands of boxes of pangolin meat, the world’s most trafficked mammal, a leading wildlife trafficking NGO said in a press release.
Robert Kocharyan, the former President of Armenia, is facing charges for having allegedly received bribes but his lawyer Aram Orbelyan told OCCRP on Thursday the charges were fake and the defense is suing for libel.
Equatorial Guinea issued an arrest warrant against a French anti-corruption lawyer as an alleged retaliation for his involvement in prosecuting the president’s son, human rights groups claimed Friday.
Italy’s Carabinieri police said Friday they captured a “dangerous” ‘Ndrangheta mafia fugitive, convicted for his role as a major international cocaine broker.
The branch leader of a Russian anti-corruption organization, Dmitry Gribov, was beaten to death in a town outside Moscow on Monday evening.