A Lebanese activist and Hezbollah critic was found dead in his car on Thursday morning with five gunshot wounds in his body, according to local media. 

A court in Stockholm has upheld acquittal for Lars Nyberg, former president of telecoms group Telia, and two associates in a case involving multi-million dollar payments made to Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the former president of Uzbekistan.

As the pandemic continues to rage, international authorities are gaining traction in their pursuit of corona-related criminality, with French and British police both recently dismantling forgery rings selling fake negative test certificates, and Chinese and Mexican authorities apprehending fraudsters selling fake vaccines.

An explosive Al Jazeera investigation revealed this week the strong links between Bangladesh’s Prime Minister and a criminal family led by the head of the army who is using his post and the country’s security forces to extract bribes in return for state contracts and job positions.

NGO Human Rights Watch on Wednesday called for an international investigation into the port explosion that devastated the Lebanese capital of Beirut last August, saying that the existing domestic probe has so far failed to deliver justice for the families of 204 people killed in the blast.

A Moscow court sentenced Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to two years and eight months in jail for violating the terms of his probation while riot police arrested hundreds of protesters who hit the streets in support of Kremlin’s loudest critic. Analysts say that Navalny is the most popular political opponent in the country but that this may not be enough to prompt changes in Russia. 

Holyrood, the Scottish Parliament, has voted against asking national authorities to pursue an Unexplained Wealth Order against Donald Trump, which would have required the former president of the United States to account for how he purchased two golf courses in Aberdeen and Turnberry.

Bulgarian authorities detained nine suspected members of a gang that advertised the quality of its cash and documents forging skills by showing off a fake Bulgarian passport in the name of Hollywood star Sylvester Stalone “with most of the security features perfectly falsified,”Europol said on Monday. 

The recent seizure of 8.8 metric tons of elephant ivory, pangolin scales and rare wildlife bones at a Nigerian port revived previous claims made by conservationists that the country is playing a key role in illegal wildlife trafficking to Asia. 

An investigation of over 100 whistleblower reports revealed widespread allegations of theft of  COVID-19 unemployment benefits and corruption in South Africa, according to a report released on Monday by Corruption Watch.