Indonesian prison conditions are commonly known to be harsh, violent, and overcrowded but for the right price, powerful inmates can buy accommodations that look more like hotel suites than jail cells.

Jordanians are calling for inquiries after rumors emerged that politicians were involved in a multi-million dollar illegal cigarette production ring, Al-Jazeera reported Monday.

The UK is upgrading its national security by adopting a recently implemented European Union fifth anti-money laundering directive, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced in a statement on Tuesday.

Two Chinese flight attendants were fined and ordered to leave the United States on Monday for attempting to smuggle dozens of protected box and spotted turtles in carry-on bags from Los Angeles to China, local news reported.

US prosecutors are pressing a former Goldman Sachs executive for information about the bank’s complicity in the siphoning of billions from Malaysian investment fund 1MDB, Bloomberg reported last week, quoting an unnamed source.

The anti-corruption unit at Britain’s biggest police force is under investigation for interfering in investigations, racial discrimination, and failure to probe allegations of wrongdoing, Jonathan Green, a director of the police watchdog conducting the investigation, told the Sunday Times on Sunday.

An ex minister in former president Robert Mugabe’s government was convicted of corruption and sentenced to four years in prison on Friday, Reuters reported.

Italian anti-mafia officers arrested on Tuesday over 30 suspected mobsters thanks to their wives who had decided their children deserve the chance to lead a crime-free life.

A man who scammed more than 600,000 Americans out of a total of US$200 million over the last decade was sentenced last month to 10 years in prison and a $49 million fine, the FBI announced Thursday.

An Italian national with ties to Canadian chapters of the ‘Ndrangheta mafia has been found guilty of corruption and sentenced to 30 years in prison in Italy, The Toronto Star reported Wednesday.