A U.K. judge ordered an Airbus subsidiary to pay more than £30 million (US$41 million) after the company pleaded guilty to bribing officials in Saudi Arabia to secure a military contract, the U.K. Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said.

German authorities said on Monday that they have shut down "one of the biggest darknet child pornography platforms in the world" which allowed users to share digital material "of the most serious sexual abuse of young children."

Over 40 non-governmental organizations signed last week the Raising the Bar Statement which asks the European Union to strengthen its approach to tackling illegal logging and deforestation when it proposes new regulations in June, according to an Environmental Investigation Agency press release.

Pope Francis introduced on Thursday a new anti-corruption law that requires all Vatican cardinals and workers in managing positions to disclose whether they have been convicted of financial crimes in the past.

Iraqi authorities have suspended or dismissed several officials after a fire in a Baghdad hospital killed at least 82 people and injured 110 last Saturday. Iraqis, including the President, are blaming corruption, negligence and mismanagement for the tragedy.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged the government of Burkina Faso to conduct a thorough investigation into the killing of two Spanish reporters who were ambushed by jihadists while working on a documentary on anti-poaching.

Afghanistan’s Ministry of Mines has released a statement “rejecting” the findings of an OCCRP investigation published Wednesday, which uncovered how President Ashraf Ghani’s brother, Hashmat, secured a lucrative mining deal through a contractor with ties to the U.S. military.

The father-daughter duo who made millions selling shoplifted items, the dealer passing himself off as a famous MMA fighter, and drug shipments concealed in cupcake machines, sanitary pads and statues of the Holy Mother ─ the week in oddities, from us here at OCCRP.

The alleged mastermind behind the world’s longest running cryptocurrency money laundering operation was arrested in the United States on Wednesday, the Department of Justice announced.  

Wildlife trafficking is rampant on social media outlets where buying anything from elephant tusks to rhino horns, cheetah pelts, pangolin scales or other bits of poached endangered species can be as little as two clicks away, experts told the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources on Wednesday.