With most shops, cafes and restaurants closed for over a month, many Italians were left without income but according to media, poor people in the south of the country are getting their food supplies from an alternative source—the mafia.
For the past two weeks, anti-corruption protesters have occupied government offices of South Darfur’s El Radoom region, demanding the dismissal of local executives over corruption in the mining industry.
A former public official in Kyrgyzstan has accused his former boss of ordering the ‘dead or alive’ capture of a Prague-based journalist who helped expose rampant corruption at the country’s customs service.
After smoking them out from their hideouts in the country’s Ogun region, Nigerian Police arrested 150 people suspected of being members of deadly cult groups and involved in armed robberies.
Brazil’s state of Rio de Janeiro has widened a “volunteer work programme” for which inmates receive reduced sentences and which human rights groups claim is illegal, the Thomson Reuters Foundation reported last week.
An armed group has pulled off a daring heist at a gold mine in Mexico amid warnings that the coronavirus pandemic has made the sector vulnerable to organised crime.
A controversial businessman known as ‘Serbian Al Capone’ and considered the region’s top narco-boss died in a Belgrade hospital on Sunday after suffering from respiratory complications caused by COVID-19, Serbian investigative outlet KRIK reported.
Cambodian police arrested a journalist for quoting the country’s prime minister who spoke about the economic consequences of COVID-19 and authorities revoked the license of the journalist’s news site.
US prosecutors say that a former Venezuelan attorney general is implicated in the laundering of bribes contractors paid to the state-owned oil company PDVSA through banks in Florida, according to Miami Herald.
The Ukrainian government has set aside 5,000 coronavirus testing kits imported from China for exclusive use by members of parliament and other senior public officials, according to documents obtained on Thursday by OCCRP member center Slidstvo.