Nicaragua granted citizenship to former Salvadoran President Salvador Sánchez Cerén, who is wanted back home for money laundering and corruption.

A U.S. court found on Monday a former chief financial officer guilty of forging the books of a Wisconsin shipping company in order to conceal its financial problems. This eventually caused a loss of more than US$245 million in shareholder value.  

Organized criminal groups may be looking to exploit furloughed border workers who could provide information about the border to them in exchange for money, the UK’s National Crime Agency warned in an alert last week. 

Michelle Remlaoui, 28, was taking a shower when one of the largest non-nuclear explosions the world has ever seen wiped out half of Beirut a year ago. The ceiling above her collapsed and the glass around her shattered, leaving cuts all over her body.

In a long awaited move, the U.S-based arts and craft store Hobby Lobby forfeited a rare cuneiform tablet to authorities who plan to return it to Iraq along with some 17,000 other suspected smuggled and looted artifacts in what will be the largest restitution of illegally acquired cultural property in history. 

Spanish authorities have busted a counterfeiting ring that was producing knock off clothing in a quantity valued at nearly US$19 million, Spain’s Guardia Civil announced on Thursday. 

Polish authorities arrested 16 people suspected of being members of an organized crime group that produced illicit tobacco, intended to be sold in the United Kingdom and Germany, Europol said on Monday.

France indicted a former justice minister with corruption, accusing her of accepting a substantial amount of money from the former CEO of the Renault-Nissan alliance Carlos Ghosn as lawyer’s fees, but prosecutors suspect the sum could be an illegal form of lobbying.

Swiss authorities dropped on Tuesday a decade-long graft investigation linked to the death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who uncovered the multi-million scandal and then died in a Moscow prison in 2009. 

A French court on Wednesday upheld the decision to charge Equatorial Guinea’s Vice-President, Teodorin Nguema Obiang Mangue, for embezzlement and money laundering, paving the way for an estimated US$177 million in stolen assets to be returned to the poverty-stricken West African country.