A Brooklyn federal judge sentenced on Wednesday a former Brazilian soccer federation president to four years in prison for conspiratorial racketeering, wire fraud and money laundering, the US Department of Justice said.

In the lead up to the 2018 elections, states are planning to spend US$ 380 million from the federal government to secure voting systems and tighten cybersecurity following revelations that Russian hackers targeted electoral systems in 2016, the US Election Assistance Commission said on Tuesday.

Tep Vanny, a celebrated Cambodian land rights activist, was granted a royal pardon and freed from prison Monday night, less than a month after the country’s ruling party bulldozed to victory in an election from which the opposition was banned, VOA reported. 

Following a series of groundbreaking convictions and pleas that reveal fraud in Trump’s campaign, Senator Elizabeth Warren announced a new anti-corruption plan on Tuesday at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. that promises to reduce corporate influence on government.

A Californian who collected millions of dollars from investors to whom he lied that he had billions overseas and needed to borrow money to access his wealth will spend 70 months behind bars and pay over half a million in fines, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.

South Africa on Monday opened a public inquiry into alleged corruption under ex-president Jacob Zuma, six months after he stepped down amid a scandal that encompasses 783 corruption charges and a multi billion-dollar arms deal, the BBC reports.

Six months ago today, Jan Kuciak, a 27 year-old Slovak journalist and his fiancée Martina Kusnir were murdered in their home by one or more professional hitmen. His colleagues believe that the motive could have been one of his investigations.

Widespread fraud in Brazil’s timber industry has allowed businesses to illegally extract millions of dollars of timber from the country’s rainforest over the past several years, according to a paper published in Scientific Advances late last week.

Italian police announced on Saturday that they arrested one of the most wanted criminals, a Calabrian mafia boss, who was hiding from authorities for over three years after having been sentenced to 20 years in prison for drug trafficking.

In the wake of a report earlier this month that opened the lid on massive fraud in US hospice services, US government agencies this week announced a new strike force that would deal with the problem and brought several scammers to justice.