A London court will suspend the corruption trial of three former energy industry executives for at least two weeks amid attempts to quell the spread of coronavirus in the country.

During the particularly severe 2017 drought, Cape Town, South Africa’s largest city, narrowly escaped the dreaded “Day Zero” - the day the city would run out of water. Smaller, mostly poorer communities were not so lucky.

Coronavirus travel restrictions have stalled Sweden’s investigation into an international fraud carried out by a sham Ukrainian investment company, according to Dagens Nyheter.

The Saudi anti-corruption authority said on Sunday that it has detained 298 government employees suspected of bribery, embezzlement, waste of public funds, and misuse of office.

The trial of the suspected killer of journalist Jan Kuciak has been delayed due to the spread of COVID-19, a Slovak court announced on Monday, according to Reuters.

The coronavirus pandemic has given Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu an unexpected boon, delaying his corruption trial by two months. 

Azerbaijan authorities have detained five people, including the husband of the director of one of the country’s largest pharmaceutical companies, for trying to smuggle face masks to China as fears about the coronavirus pandemic spike.

Pakistan’s anti-corruption watchdog has launched an investigation into alleged corruption and misuse of funds at a multi-million dollar water supply project outside of Karachi after the project’s costs quadrupled.

The US believes it has enough evidence to prosecute a Swiss bank for its alleged role in a US$2 billion corruption scandal in Mozambique, according to Reuters.

An inventive gang has over the past few years developed a lucrative, illegal business: they rent bulldozers and similar machines from construction companies in Germany and sell them to construction companies in other EU countries.