Abdulla Yameen, the autocratic leader of the Maldives whose rule saw the corrupt handouts of 50 of the country’s islands, was defeated on Sunday in a landslide election that elevated opposition lawmaker Ibrahim Mohamed Solih to power after five years of deepening autocracy.
Finnish authorities detained this weekend three money laundering and tax fraud suspects and raided the premises of a Finnish company owned by a foreigner.
A new investigation published Monday by Atlatszo, an OCCRP partner organization in Hungary, has found links between members of the Hungarian elite, including Prime Minister Viktor Orban, and a luxury yacht and private jet, both registered abroad.
Two weeks after conservation officials alleged there’d been an unprecedented slaughter of elephants in Botswana’s national parks, the country’s officials challenged their numbers, saying this year’s elephant killings were at a normal level.
The UK’s National Crime Agency has opened a criminal investigation into a UK-registered company suspected of having been involved in the Danske Bank multi-billion money-laundering scandal, The Financial Times reported.
Fresh from being slapped with four charges of abuse of power and 21 charges of money laundering in relation to the theft of billions of dollars from a Malaysia state fund, Najib Razak, former prime minister of Malaysia, told reporters he wasn’t a thief.
A Pakistani court in Islamabad ordered ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif and two of his family members to be released on bail while they appeal corruption charges related to their ownership of luxury properties in London.
Denmark’s financial regulator has reopened its investigation into Danske Bank which initially closed in May after a mounting outcry into the lender’s own probe into a massive money-laundering scandal, the Financial Times reported.
Brazilian authorities Friday seized over US$16 million worth in cash and luxury watches from Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, the 50-year-old vice president of Equatorial Guinea, O Estado de S. Paulo reported.