The European Commission released a proposal on Monday that will “guarantee a high level of protection for whistleblowers” across the EU, a press release said.

An independent investigation found that some current and former members of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) may have been bribed to soften the body’s criticism of the serious human rights violations in Azerbaijan, a report published on Sunday said. 

Australian and Irish police have exposed a major drug trafficking network involving one of Ireland’s most notorious crime groups – the Kinahan cartel. The two-years long operation has led to the arrests of four Irish in Australia and New Zealand, the Sydney Morning Herald reported Sunday.

New findings of the Daphne Project show that contrary to what Maltese Tourism Minister Konrad Mizzi told the European Parliament in February, his offshore firms were planning to do business.

World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told reporters that corruption is widespread and that the Bank has introduced measures to follow every dollar it lends to make sure that its funds are being used for the intended purposes.

A Belgrade court ordered the owner of the Serbian daily ‘Informer’ to pay 80,000 Dinars (US$ 835) to the chief editor of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, OCCRP, for tarnishing his honor in an article from March 2016.

Latin American and European finance ministers met in Washington on Thursday to discuss Venezuela’s international financial standing and alleged corruption, the Washington Post reported. 

The United Kingdom denied a French request for assistance in its investigation into alleged money laundering and tax fraud by Lycamobile, a U.K. telecoms company, reports BuzzFeed News. The British government said in its refusal that Lycamobile is the “biggest corporate donor to the Conservative party.”

After a two-year investigation, 300 heavily armed police officers bursted the doors of more than 100 villas and apartments in the early morning hours and arrested 19 alleged members of one of Lithuania’s most dangerous crime groups.

Italian police announced on Thursday that they arrested 22 close associates of the boss of all bosses of the Sicilian mafia, who has been on the run since 1993 but still kept issuing orders on paper notes, or “pizzini,” some of which were hidden under a rock.