Ukraine’s top court has issued an arrest warrant in absentia against Kyrylo Shevchenko, the former head of Ukrgazbank, who is suspected of leading a corruption ring that embezzled more than US$5.5 million from the bank.
President Pedro Castillo of Peru attempted to dissolve his country’s legislature on Thursday, but within hours Peruvian lawmakers removed him from office and he was jailed by police.
New data published by UNESCO highlights what it calls an increased abuse of the judicial system to attack journalists and undermine freedom of expression around the world.
On Friday, hundreds of supporters of jailed Georgian former president Mikheil Saakashvili rallied in front of the Tbilisi City Court as it held its first hearing on a motion regarding the postponement of his sentence for health reasons.
The United Kingdom government says it has saved more than 400 million pounds (US$487 million) for the public purse by utilizing data-matching software as it cracks down on benefits and tax fraud.
Police in the southeastern African country of Malawi have arrested three suspects in last week’s brutal murder of Talandira Chirwa, a three-year-old girl with albinism, who was stabbed in the neck while sleeping in bed with her grandmother by a man who broke into the house in the middle of the night, local media reported.
A Brazilian tug boat transporting more than four tonnes of cocaine bound for European markets was intercepted off the coast of Sierra Leone by the French Navy on Nov. 30.
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Argentina’s former president and current vice president, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison and banned for life from holding public office, after a court found her guilty of awarding public works contracts to a friend.
The Russian paramilitary group Wagner supplies international markets with diamonds sourced from the Central African Republic’s conflict areas, said a new report by the French initiative All Eyes on Wagner in collaboration with Dossier Center, a Kremlin-focused anti-corruption group, and the investigative network European Investigative Collaborations.
The Swiss-based automation and electrification company ABB agreed to pay $315 million to settle a multinational bribery investigation involving a high ranking official at Eskom, a South African state-owned energy company, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said Friday.