Spanish and Bulgarian police arrested 13 people and seized 30,000 artifacts, including forged coins and ancient Greek ceramics, in a joint operation that targeted a cultural goods trafficking gang, Europol said on Monday.

A Philadelphia police officer pleaded guilty Thursday to selling drugs with corrupt members of a Baltimore police task force in what is considered to be one the worst U.S. police corruption scandals in recent decades, the Associated Press reported. 

The US Justice Department has filed criminal charges against a flashy Malaysian financier and a former Goldman Sachs banker for laundering billions syphoned from Malaysian investment development fund 1MDB. A second former banker for the New York-based firm has pleaded guilty for his involvement in the major fraud scandal.

Prosecutors in Bulgaria said on Friday they detained 20 people this week for issuing fake documents that made a number of foreigners eligible for Bulgarian citizenship and therefore access to the EU.

Days before the trial against drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman begins, a new analysis shows the crime group he used to lead, the Sinaloa cartel, still dominates Mexican crime.

An independent investigation named at least 20 South African senior police officials as suspects in a massive fraud and collusion case involving allegedly illegal contracts worth millions of dollars awarded to a private forensic software company over the past five years, the Daily Maverick reported.

Police arrested on Wednesday a Solomon Islands lawmaker and charged him with corruption for allegedly misusing a shipping grant worth more than US$374,000 to purchase motor powered canoes for his political supporters, Radio New Zealand reported. 

Hours after he was transferred to a new prison, infamous Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger, 89, was found on Tuesday beaten to death in his cell, the Boston Globe reported.

Italian authorities arrested 14 alleged members of a Camorra clan for trafficking crack, cocaine and hashish along the coast near Naples. Three days earlier, Corriere del Mezzogiorno reported that camorristi put a bounty on a drug-sniffing police dog.

Indonesia’s anti-corruption agency summoned on Tuesday the deputy chairman of the Chinese-Indonesian conglomerate Lippo Group as a witness in a bribery case related to a $US21 billion construction project, Reuters reported.