Pakistani authorities are investigating former President Pervez Musharraf who is suspected of having abused his post and of owning assets he can’t afford.

A Maltese opposition Member of Parliament and lawyer for the family of Daphne Caruana Galizia on Monday accused a police sergeant of tipping off the three men arrested for her murder allowing them to dispose of evidence.

The United Kingdom announced that it plans to close a 100 year loophole to stop the flow of dirty money through the country, British media reported on Sunday.

Corruption, human rights abuses, or environmental harm mar many of the companies who the United Nations retirement fund, worth US$64 billion, has invested in, according to an investigation by the Guardian.

One third of all murders in the world occur in Latin America and the Caribbeans - home to eight percent of the world’s population.

The situation concerning freedom of media is “alarming” as only a fraction of the world’s population enjoys a free press, an EU official warned on Wednesday. Experts want new laws to protect investigative journalists.

Pilatus Bank closed down its UK branch after investigative journalists revealed that dozens of companies owned by Azerbaijan’s ruling elite had moved millions of euros through the bank.

Lithuania’s minister of agriculture was forced to step down on Wednesday after journalists disclosed his family was cultivating other people’s land without permission and that it was even getting EU subsidies for it.

French authorities are investigating media billionaire Vincent Bollore who is suspected of having helped install politicians in two African countries in exchange for lucrative business contracts, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The man allegedly behind the largest and most feared Colombian drug cartel pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn’s federal courthouse on Tuesday, the New York Daily News reported.