A Federal Court in Boston sent on Wednesday a Canadian citizen behind bars for artificially inflating stocks owned by him and his co-conspirators with the intention to generate US$15 million in fraudulent proceeds.

A 62-year-old Cuban who once tried to buy a Russian submarine to help Colombian suppliers smuggle drugs to the U.S. pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute a large amount of high-grade marijuana to Florida, the U.S. Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday.

Authorities detained 56 members of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz party (PML-N) who on Tuesday clashed with police in front of the government anti-corruption office in Lahore where the daughter of the party founder, Nawaz Sharif, was summoned in a graft case.

The president of Mexico has accused his predecessors of allowing the country to become a “narco-state”, as cartel violence continues to rage and allegations of corruption mount against high-profile former officials.

German authorities raided on Tuesday the business and the residence of an individual suspected of money laundering as part of an investigation involving the “Troika Laundromat,” a multi-billion dollar scheme uncovered by OCCRP last year.

Police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina turned against some of their colleagues on Wednesday, detaining 17 traffic policemen suspected of abusing their posts and taking bribes to pardon irresponsible drivers.

Authorities in Belarus have in the past 72 hours detained more than 20 journalists as part of a violent response to civil unrest over the controversial result of the recent presidential election.

Mass protests continued for the third night in a row against Alexander Lukashenko’s landslide victory that gave him his sixth presidential mandate in what thousands of his opponents consider a rigged election.

Montenegrin authorities said they busted a cigarette smuggling ring after having detained two suspected members of the group and having filed a criminal complaint against another person believed to have been puling the strings.

As wider issues of government corruption and negligence have been vocalized by protesters on the streets of Beirut in response to last week’s explosion, the Lebanese Prime Minister announced on Monday evening that he and his cabinet would be stepping down.