Basler Kantonalbank, a bank headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with the United States that includes the bank paying US$ 60,4 million in penalties, the US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.

A federal court in Brooklyn sentenced on Wednesday a former Paraguayan soccer official to nine years in prison for racketeering and corruption offenses that were part of the FIFA corruption scheme.

Antonio La Torre, a Scotland-based restaurateur known for his seafood risotto and for being the older brother of a notorious Naples-based mobster, was jailed in Italy over a plot to kill two public prosecutors, reported British media on Monday.

Seven defendants representing a US ambulance company agreed to settle with the government for US$21 million over allegations that they bribed local government officials to secure their business, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Despite promises made by UK authorities to stop criminals from using the country to launder their money, BuzzFeed News revealed a network of more than 100 shell companies allegedly linked to money laundering, bribery and Donald Trump’s convicted former campaign manager, Paul Manafort.

That the European Union’s anti-fraud office had found evidence of “serious irregularities” and “conflict of interest” in the way government contracts for the modernization of streetlights throughout Hungary were awarded was known in January this year.

A Tajikistan court freed on Wednesday journalist and comedian Khayrullo Mirsaidov after he served nine months of the 12-year jail term that was handed down to him for embezzlement and providing false evidence about government corruption. He denies the charges.

Migrants are paying organized crime groups 200 Moroccan dirhams (US$ 21.15) to help them jump over the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish North African cities of Ceuta and Melilla, according to a confidential report by the Spanish Civil Guard and obtained by El Pais on Thursday.

The former managing director and vice chairman of Swiss Bank pleaded guilty on Wednesday for his role in the laundering of over one billion dollars that were embezzled from Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, the US Department of Justice said.

The Serbian Center for Investigative Journalism, CINS, will be considering its legal options regarding accusations made by the President of the Serb-controlled half of Bosnia who accused the organization and its editor-in-chief of “destroying regional political structures with money from international organizations.”