A businessman bribed Russian authorities to drop an investigation into a US$150 million kickback scheme involving the Russian military, US prosecutors claimed on Friday.

European Union (EU) countries need to exchange more information about the lucrative Golden Visa schemes that provide residency or even citizenship to wealthy foreigners including criminals, money launderers and tax evaders, according to a report issued Wednesday.

Bloomberg reported on Wednesday that Deutsche Bank is being investigated as part of the ongoing US Federal Reserve probe of Danske Bank’s alleged facilitation of money laundering operations.

Police in the United Kingdom (UK) arrested a man suspected of exploiting almost a dozen Romanian men for slave labor in the construction industry, the National Crime Agency (NCA) said Tuesday.

The illegal wildlife trade in Hong Kong is booming, according to a new study, and consequently contributing to a global extinction crisis by supplying an increasing demand for wildlife products in Asia, particularly China.

Recent charges against Mehman Huseynov that claimed he attacked a prison guard were dropped on Tuesday, a day after the anti-corruption blogger sent a direct appeal to Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev.

The European Union (EU) is expected to release a report Wednesday urging member states to tighten controls over their Golden Visa programs, warning the schemes can be used by organized crime groups for money laundering, corruption and tax evasion.

Three men in the United Kingdom (UK) who ran a business selling potentially lethal drugs on the dark web were sentenced Jan. 18 to a total of more than four decades in prison, according to the National Crime Agency.

Estonia scrapped proposed legislation last week intended to strengthen anti-money laundering controls in the wake of the Danske Bank scandal, claiming it wasn’t “specific enough” to avoid a potential invasion of citizens’ privacy.

Azerbaijani journalist Khadija Ismayilova ended her five-day hunger strike on Saturday after thousands of protesters rallied to demand the release of political prisoners from Azerbaijan’s prisons.