Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko told CBC on Monday that his country does not need an independent anti-corruption court as corruption will be dealt with by all courts in the country.

Italian police arrested on Tuesday the mayor of a city near Milan, accusing him of corruption, which authorities revealed during a wide-ranging investigation into the ‘Ndrangheta’s ramifications in Northern Italy.

Two Lithuanian parties have been officially accused last week of participating in a large corruption plot, orchestrated by one of the most influential business groups in the country.

Azerbaijani investigative reporter Khadija Ismayilova is among this year’s recipients of the Right Livelihood Award - also referred to as the “Alternative Nobel Prize” - which honors daring endeavors in human rights, public health and good governance.

Nordic telecommunications firm Telia Company will pay the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Dutch and Swedish regulators US$ 965 million to resolve bribery allegations previously investigated by OCCRP in 2015.

A US court sentenced on Wednesday a retired officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to five years and two months in prison for laundering money obtained from the illegal import of hundreds of narwhal tusks from Canada. 

The Philippine President said Wednesday he ordered police to kill his eldest son if allegations are true that he is part of a Chinese transnational drug syndicate.

Serbia’s Defense Minister, Aleksandar Vulin, told the country’s anti-corruption agency that his wife’s aunt from Canada lent the couple US$ 245,000 to buy their Belgrade apartment, but submitted unconvincing evidence for his claim, Crime and Corruption Reporting Network (KRIK) reported Monday.

Aerospace giant Airbus has begun an internal investigation into possible corruption following a series of dubious financial transactions uncovered by the Guardian that resulted in a multi-million dollar unexplained payment, the Guardian reported Monday.

Tajikistan’s Supreme Court jailed at least nine former top anti-corruption officials in the largest and most high-profile corruption case this impoverished 8.7 million Central Asian nation has ever seen.