As Israel’s new unity government stands on the precipice of being confirmed as the ruling coalition in the Knesset, things are looking dire for Benjamin Netanyahu, who for the first time in 12 years, stands to lose the powers of the premiership, just as his long-running corruption trial is picking up pace. 

Nearly two weeks after U.S. authorities arrested Vanessa Rondeau, a Canadian national who ran a boutique oddities shop in Montreal, and charged her with smuggling and trafficking of illegal wildlife, her shop’s Facebook site still displays disputed items like black bear and polar bear skulls.

A former manager at the Swedish branch of Bombardier Transportation, a major engineering company, has been indicted on Wednesday on charges of aggravated bribery in what is one of Sweden’s biggest ever corruption scandals.

After a cyberattack linked to Russian hacker group REvil forced the world’s largest meat supplier JBS to shut down all of its systems, including plants in North America and Australia, the Brazil-based company has returned to full global operations. An expert said on Tuesday that  attacked companies won’t tell whether they paid ransom.  

A ‘significantly high number’ of cryptocurrency firms have failed to comply with the U.K.’s trading standards and are struggling to meet anti-money laundering rules, Britain’s financial regulator said last week. 

Florian Tudor, the alleged leader of an organized criminal group that stole over a billion dollars by compromising ATMs in tourist destinations across Mexico, was transferred to a maximum security prison on Saturday, Mexican media reported.

France’s National Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has launched a preliminary investigation into the personal wealth of Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor, Riad Salame, following two complaints filed last month with the judicial institution that deals exclusively with financial affairs.

Czech authorities announced last week possible charges against Prime Minister Andrej Babiš for fraud involving EU tax subsidies, but they later reportedly passed the case to the new European Public Prosecutor's Office, launched last week to handle financial crimes against the EU.

The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS) said on Monday he “deeply regrets” El Salvador’s decision to pull out of an anti-corruption commission, but accused the country of "asphyxiating" the body and "completely curtailing its investigative possibilities."

A Georgian court ordered on Saturday the evacuation of children from a Church-run boarding school for orphans after the local archbishop refused to let authorities enter the school and look into allegations of violence and sexual abuse of children.