Macedonia’s former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski fled to Hungary after a Skopje court ordered police to arrest him because he failed to surrender on Friday and serve his two-year prison sentence for corruption.
The European Commission urged governments on Monday not to misuse the EU data protection regulation to silence investigative journalists.
Prosecutors in Macedonia launched an investigation into the business empire of Jordan Kamcev, one of the wealthiest people in Macedonia, and his relation to the former secret police chief of ex-prime minister Nikola Gruevski, the country’s Special Prosecution announced Friday.
The former top prosecutor of Shanghai who was sentenced last month to life imprisonment for a US$10 million bribery scheme has implicated some 100 officials linked to his corruption case, an anonymous source told the South China Morning Post this week.
Iran sentenced two people to death and about a dozen to lengthy prison sentences for corruption, the Mizan News Agency reported on Sunday.
The president of the Mumbai Congress said a local forests minister has links to international poaching mafia and targeted him for the killing of a tiger that officials say took the lives of 13 people, India Today reported Saturday.
The Romanian Data Protection Authority (ANSPDCP) Thursday ordered investigative outlet RISE Project to reveal its sources for reporting on an alleged European Union (EU) fund fraud that may involve an eminent Romanian politician.
Tanzanian authorities released two Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reporters detained during a trip to the country to research the state of press freedom, the organization announced Thursday.
Internal memos circulated among federal officials in Canada reveal that the government continues to doubt the infiltration of organized crime networks into the legal cannabis industry despite investigations that have found shady money in legal marijuana enterprises, local media reported.
Authorities in South Africa arrested on Monday a Danish woman suspected of stealing US$17 million from Danish government funds from the National Board of Health, Danish prosecutors said.