Turkish Authorities arrested this week more than 200 people suspected of financial and smuggling related crimes, Turkey’s interior ministry said in a statement.

Former Special Adviser to the Congolese President Vidiye Tshimanga appeared in court in Kinshasa on Monday facing charges of passive corruption, insults to the head of the state and influence peddling. He resigned on September 16 after a tape released and analyzed by OCCRP showed him negotiating a corrupt mining deal.

The G20 leaders who convened in Bali earlier this week agreed on a number of points including condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, addressing food insecurity and adopting measures to mitigate the climate crisis but not on how to fight kleptocracy and transnational corruption, Transparency International’ told OCCRP on Wednesday.

Iraq’s Federal Commission of Integrity (Nazaha) announced Wednesday the formation of a supreme commission mandated to investigate major and important corruption cases that senior officials have described as a serious threat to the state.

The Swiss government set forth a motion Monday to amend the Banking Act, which currently prevents the press from investigating and reporting on matters related to the finance sector, following revelations that criminals and the corrupt can launder their ill-gotten gains through the country’s banks with minimal fear of exposure.

The United States’ 5th Fleet seized a fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman that was smuggling a considerable amount of explosive material from Iran to war-torn Yemen, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command Public Affairs said Tuesday in a statement.

Ghana’s President on Monday dismissed the controversial Harvard Business School-educated Junior Finance Minister after he was implicated in trying to collect bribes from supposed investors.

The European Union on Monday imposed sanctions on eight more Russian nationals, consisting of high ranking agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and chemical weapon experts, over their alleged involvement in the poisoning of opposition figure Alexei Navalny.

The United States sanctioned Monday a Russian microelectronics company that has facilitated the Kremlin’s military research and development (R&D) sector as Moscow  continues its illegal war against Ukraine.

Two new spyware strains are targeting Uyghurs in China and elsewhere by masquerading as Android apps, designed to track the user’s location and harvest their information, researchers at cybersecurity firm Lookout discovered in a recent threat analysis.