The disgraced former head of soccer in Guam, who was banned from the sport after he admitted taking bribes in exchange for his support in FIFA elections, tried to influence the election of his successor, The New York Times reported.

U.S. prosecutors in Houston unsealed part of an indictment on Monday, revealing corruption allegations against five former Venezuelan officials in connection with what appears to be a major bribery scheme at Venezuela’s state-run oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), the Department of Justice said.

Exiled former Peruvian president Alejandro Toledo has been accused of taking millions of dollars in bribes through Scottish shell companies linked to one of the country’s biggest law firms, The Herald claimed on Monday.

The President of Kyrgyzstan called on the country’s corrupted, dysfunctional judicial and national security agencies to launch a merciless fight against graft, saying the problem is already threatening national security, the Times of Central Asia reported on Sunday.

EU spending in Hungary has been flagged by a European parliamentary watchdog days after the European Anti-Fraud’s Office (OLAF) report on problematic public contracts linked to a company owned by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s son-in-law was made public by 24.hr.

Prosecutors in Munich closed out the German branch of a multinational probe into corruption at Airbus, ordering the company to pay a settlement of around US$ 99 million, Deutsche Welle reported Friday.

The EU's migration chief has branded Greek prosecutors “perjurers” after he was named in a major corruption investigation into whether top politicians were paid bribes in exchange for fixing the price of various medicines.

The US subsidiary of Rabobank pleaded guilty to obstructing an investigation into money laundering by Mexican drug cartels and has agreed to pay a US$369 million fine, the Justice Department announced on Wednesday.

Latvia became the sixth country in the world and the final of the three Baltic countries to pass a version of the Magnitsky law on Thursday. Its parliament voted to impose travel restrictions to 49 Russian citizens who were involved with to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky or other human rights abuses.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte donned a hard hat on Tuesday as he watched bulldozers flatten dozens of smuggled luxury vehicles in an symbolic attempt to galvanise the fight against corruption.