Haitian President Jovenel Moise removed Monday two top government officials in a purge of people linked to a corruption scandal that sparked violent mass protests last week, Channel News Asia reported.
Sales of illegal weapons have doubled in Ukraine in the past year, according to the national police, many of them smuggled from the east of the country where a war against Russia-backed separatists still simmers.
India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested its own special director for allegedly receiving bribes in exchange for leniency for a businessman whom he probed in a massive corruption case involving India’s largest meat exporter, the Shillong Times reported on Sunday.
The United Nations’ fight against illegal drugs over the past 10 years has failed and even led to more drug use and violence, the International Drug Policy Consortium said in a report released on Sunday.
About a dozen former politicians and businessmen were sentenced Monday to nearly 53 years in prison for organized crime, tax evasion, money laundering and destroying business records. Bosnia’s State Court gave the group’s leader, a former minister, 12 years behind bars.
Lu Wei, once the gatekeeper of the internet for the entire population of China, pleaded guilty on Friday to abuse of power and accepting what amounted to US$4.6 million in bribes over the span of his 15-year career.
Thousands of minors have been exploited throughout the European Union and busting criminal networks trafficking children is one of the block’s top priorities, Europol said in a report released on Thursday, the EU Anti-Trafficking Day.
European financial elite lifted 55 billion euros, about US$63 billion, out of state coffers by receiving tax reimbursements for tax that had never been paid, a new crossborder investigation exposed Thursday.
At least two people were killed and dozens were injured as anti-corruption protesters numbering in the thousands surged through the streets of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince this week, the Associated Press reported.
Chinese demand for luxury timber is driving logging in the Solomon Islands at an unsustainable rate, and may see them stripped of forest by 2036, according to a new report by Global Witness.