Malaysian police searched the home of former Prime Minister Najib Razak Wednesday evening in connection with a financial scandal alleged to involve over US$4 billion, Reuters reported Thursday.

Sicilian authorities that have been fighting the Cosa Nostra for decades are facing a new type of organized crime: a Nigerian sex and drug trafficking gang called Black Axe, NPR reported Wednesday.

Refugees in Sudan say people working with the UN agency responsible for resettlement take bribes to hasten the resettlement process of asylum seekers, IRIN reported Tuesday.

A Hong Kong-based company is advertising a new, even cheaper immigration program than the one suspended last year, promising Hungarian residency permits to those who invest US$92,000 in real estate and pay almost $60,000 in fees, OCCRP partner Direkt36 reported on Wednesday.

Slovak police had invited investigative journalist Pavla Holcova on Tuesday to what she thought would be a friendly conversation to help their investigation into the murder of her friend and colleague, Jan Kuciak.

A review panel in the 1MDB corruption case claims Malaysia’s former attorney general blocked an investigation of an alleged transfer of US$10.6 million into an account of the previous prime minister, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Organized crime and the rise in gang activity “affects more UK citizens, more often, than any other security threat,” according to a report released on Monday by the UK’s National Crime Agency.

Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep is set to star in Steven Soderbergh’s thriller based on the Panama Papers leak, the Hollywood Reporter said on Monday.

An Albanian court decided that the former minister of interior will have to remain under house arrest and face trial on charges of drug trafficking and corruption, Reuters reported Saturday.

The corruption trial of Shell, Eni, and Nigerian former-oil minister Dan Etete begins Monday in Milan, where prosecutors will try to prove that the oil giants paid a US$1.1 billion bribe to get an oil exploration permit that costs $210 million, according to Deutsche Welle.