A London court cleared on Friday three Barclays’s executives of fraud charges that claimed they funneled US$418 million in secret fees to Qatar in return of rescuing the UK-based bank from a state takeover during the 2008 financial crisis.
Niger’s police have arrested 18 suspects of human trafficking and crimes against children and have rescued 232 of their victims, INTERPOL said in a statement on Wednesday.
The imprisoned daughter of Uzbekistan's late president has offered to return US$686 million to the country's treasury if the court drops the latest case against her.
The 2014 arrest and pre-trial detention of Azerbaijani journalist and OCCRP contributor Khadija Ismayilova was unlawful and politically motivated, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday.
Spanish authorities have raided the properties of two prominent football agents suspected of organizing fictitious transfers of players through a Cypriot club to launder a large amount of money and evade taxes.
Several Montenegrin citizens have been detained when authorities of the Caribbean island of Aruba intercepted earlier this week a ship carrying tons of cocaine destined for Europe, Montenegro’s Police Directorate told OCCRP on Thursday.
The Federal High Court in Abuja found on Tuesday the former spokesman of the country’s main opposition party guilty of corruption and money laundering, AFP reported.
Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan appeared in a Yerevan court on Tuesday to face corruption charges which he claims were politically motivated, RFE/RL reported.
Authorities in Stockholm could not confirm claims made by Swedish media that Swedbank's former CEO Birgitte Bonnesen will be questioned about the money-laundering scandal involving accounts at the bank’s Baltic branches.
The United States granted asylum to Guatemala’s former chief prosecutor just days after her country filed an extradition request based on embezzlement, lying and tax fraud charges she claims were raised in retaliation for her anti-corruption efforts.