Pakistan’s anti-graft agency approved last week an investigation into two former prime ministers, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Nawaz Sharif, over allegations of violating the rules when awarding a liquidnatural gas contract.
The District Court in Atlanta said on Monday it sentenced a US-born former high school football player who joined a Mexican drug cartel to 49 years in prison for cocaine trafficking and money laundering.
Authorities in five countries arrested 74 suspects in an operation aimed at disrupting email fraud schemes that intercept and hijack wire transfers from businesses and individuals, the FBI announced Monday.
US authorities indicted a number of Russian and Syrian nationals on Tuesday for alleged money laundering and circumvention of US economic sanctions against Syria and Crimea through the use of front companies and falsified documents, the Justice Department announced.
Authorities arrested former first lady of El Salvador, Vanda Pignato, on Tuesday for alleged participation in a US$351 million embezzlement scheme run by her husband, former President Mauricio Funes, according to the Associated Press.
A little more than a week after Ukraine opened a corruption park in Kiev’s botanical gardens, the country’s president, Petro Poroshenko, signed a bill on Monday on the creation of an anti-corruption court, Radio Free Europe said.
The United States extradited the former president of Panama on Monday to face allegations of illegal wiretapping and embezzlement in his home country, according to the Justice Department.
A video circulating in local media showed a man approaching and shooting a candidate for Mexico’s Chamber of Deputies after an electoral debate.
A French anti-corruption group called for an inquiry into the campaign accounts of President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, alleging he received illegal discounts during his 2017 presidential bid.
The second most powerful African football official resigned on Saturday – a week before the FIFA World Cup in Russia – after undercover reporters filmed him and over one hundred African football officials taking bribes.