A Vietnamese court is expected to set precedent on Tuesday by determining who will bear financial responsibility in a record-setting fraud trial, Reuters reported Monday.

Nigeria’s government has been increasingly siphoning money from a US$670 million military slush fund in the run-up to the elections, leaving the country open to more political instability, Transparency International reported Monday.

Mexican government officials said they detained the wife of the country’s biggest drug baron for laundering funds of her husband’s cartel, Reuters reported Sunday.

Kenyan authorities arrested a number of government officials suspected of stealing nearly $US100 million of public funds, prosecutors said Sunday.

Malaysian police seized US$ 28.6 million in cash and more than 400 luxury handbags from several apartments on Friday as part of an anti-graft investigation of former prime minister Najib Razak, Reuters reported.

More than 100 Thai police stormed Buddhist temples Thursday, arresting several prominent monks on robbery and embezzlement charges, Reuters reported.

Federal authorities arrested dozens of gang members Wednesday for selling drugs and extorting prisoners in Californian jails.

In an unprecedented move, murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia's laptops and hard disks were handed over to German Federal Criminal Police (BKA) last month.

Multinationals, politicians, corporate moguls, and European consuls all used offshore companies and bank accounts to hide money and avoid taxes in West Africa, according to an investigation by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists released Tuesday.

A Myanmar judge will decide soon whether evidence police claim to have obtained from the mobile phones of two detained Reuters reporters will be admissible in court, Reuters reported Monday.