Italian police arrested on Thursday 23 people suspected of having links to the Cosa Nostra, including a gambling entrepreneur believed to have partnered with the Sicilian mafia to expand his business empire.

Neither the first nor the last public official to provoke the ire of Ukrainians with an expensive vacation, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko was reported to have paid at least US$ 65,000 for a Seychelles trip, according an article in Wednesday’s Kyiv Post.

Suspected Bosnian crime boss, Naser Kelmendi, was sentenced to six years in prison in Kosovo for drug trafficking, but was acquitted of murder, organized crime, and other drug related charges, Reuters reported Wednesday.

U.S. federal lawyers have issued grand jury subpoenas to request evidence for their wide ranging probe into global sports corruption with people expected to appear in court as early as this week, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

By Cecilia Anesi

Italian authorities detained a member of the Camorra crime syndicate who landed in Rome on Wednesday after having been expelled from Mexico where he lived for more than a decade under a false name.

Head of a Philippine anti-graft agency, Conchita Carpio Morales, who is investigating President Rodrigo Duterte for corruption, has defied his order to suspend the Deputy Ombudsman for allegedly sharing confidential and misleading information about his wealth, Rappler reported Thursday.

 The Tax Justice Network released their Financial Secrecy Index on Tuesday, ranking Switzerland and the United States as the top two countries most attractive for tax evaders and money launderers. This is the second time in a row that the US has risen on the index, marking a fall in terms of transparency.

Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb announced on Tuesday the end of a three-month corruption probe which yielded US$100 billion in recuperated capital and resulted in 56 royal family members being jailed, the Guardian reported.

Almost 800 Bulgarian owners of expensive real estate or luxury cars will be investigated under suspicion of money laundering, prosecutors announced on Monday. 

 Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has dismissed a petition from opposition leaders that called on the island nation’s Supreme Court to temporarily remove him from office and investigate allegations of corruption against him, Al Jazeera reported on Monday.