A court in Uganda has charged government minister Mary Goretti Kitutu with four counts related to the theft of 14,500 metal roofing sheets that were supposed to be distributed to the poor but ended up in the hands of the minister’s family members and senior government officials.

Venezuela's chief prosecutor has said that his office has requested the police to search 142 locations nationwide and arrest 67 people in an anti-corruption operation that is targeting businessmen and officials at the state-owned petroleum company, PDVSA.

Authorities from 17 countries detained around 120 suspects and conducted over 200 searches as they took down one of the biggest darkweb marketplaces that played a major role in facilitating cybercrime attacks around the world – said a press release by the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA).

A former president of Haiti’s lower house of parliament was sanctioned Wednesday for his extensive involvement in corruption, the Department of the Treasury said.

Of the 90 million containers that find their way through EU ports every year, law enforcement is able to physically inspect only two percent. This, combined with the criminal’s tricks, makes it almost impossible to detect the enormous amount of illicit goods that enter the continent through ports, according to a new Europol report.

The U.S State Department sanctioned on Wednesday four Georgian judges, accusing them of significant corruption, and banning them and their family members from entering the United States.

Dozens of Armenian citizens acted as proxy directors for a network of companies used by Eastern European oligarchs to move millions of dollars, transfer assets from closed banks abroad, and pay for lobbying services in the United States, according to an investigation by Forensic News and Hetq.

The junta in West Africa’s Burkina Faso forced two French journalists from Le Monde and Liberation to leave the country without providing any justification for the decision, said statements by the two outlets.

Mining magnate Beny Steinmetz lost his appeal against a foreign bribery conviction, after Geneva’s judiciary ruled Tuesday that he was responsible for millions of dollars in corrupt payments to obtain one of the world’s biggest iron ore deposits.

Authorities in Brazil, Paraguay and several countries in Europe dismantled a massive drug trafficking ring believed to be responsible for shipping 17 tonnes of cocaine from Paraguay to Europe, where the street value of the drug could have reached several billion U.S. dollars, Europol said.