Russian oil companies routinely evaded regulatory measures and instead illegally dumped toxic waste from oil drilling in “sludge barns,” which can cause untold environmental pollution in arctic waterways, according to an investigation by Radio Free Europe’s Russian Service (RFE/RL).
Panama’s anti-corruption prosecutor said on Wednesday she wants to see 50 people, including two former presidents, stand trial for their role in a bribing scheme involving the Brazilian conglomerate Odebrecht.
Acting on an extradition request made by Romania, Mexican authorities arrested on Thursday Florian Tudor, the alleged leader of an organized criminal group that stole more than a billion dollars by compromising ATMs in tourist destinations across Mexico.
U.S. prosecutors charged two former executives from the defunct Meinl Bank with money laundering related to an international bribery scheme involving the Brazillian construction company Odebrecht.
Bolivia arrested its former interior minister earlier this week over an alleged bribery and money laundering scheme that enabled a U.S.-based company to secure a government contract, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.
Three unidentified men broke on Tuesday into the apartment of a prominent Pakistani journalist who has been criticising the government and the country’s powerful military, tied him up and beat him with a pistol in what appears to be the latest attack against journalists in the South Asian country.
The sea washed packages of cocaine worth nearly US$113 million off the coast of East Sussex, surprising passers-by who alerted the police.
Nine European Union member states have failed to meet the January 2020 deadline to introduce centralized registers that make beneficial ownership (BO) information publicly available, while some of those that now have such registers, made them either difficult or expensive to use, or have restricted available data.
Cybercrime is on the rise and opportunities for web-based corruption have increased in the last year due to the pandemic, Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) warned in a new report released on Tuesday.
A former Ecuadorian official who was arrested in April for corruption, killed himself in his jail cell in the capital of Quito where he was waiting for his trial, a government minister said.