Poland's anti-graft agency dismantled an organized crime group suspected of money laundering, tax evasion and tax fraud, the country’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) said on Wednesday.

Bulgarian authorities put on Tuesday a current and a former member of Bulgaria’s Gambling Commission under house arrest after prosecutors accused them of being part of an organized crime group that is being headed by a private lottery owner believed to be the country’s richest man.

An anti-graft crusader and the chief minister of India’s Delhi region, Arvind Kejriwal, secured a victory on Wednesday that will keep his Aam Aadmi Party, AAP, in power in the regional assembly. His party has maintained a significant majority there since 2015. 

A murdered Malaysian prosecutor and an Indonesian anti-graft investigator who survived an acid attack became on Tuesday the first two winners of a new prize Malaysia established to honor anti-corruption fighters who had been killed or persecuted.

Georgian opposition parties suspended on Tuesday negotiations with the ruling party about the country’s election system after the Supreme Court sentenced an opposition leader to 38 months in jail for embezzling nearly US$14 million while serving as the mayor of Tbilisi.

Sweden’s SEB bank replaced on Friday the head of its Baltics division who was in charge when media revealed last year that billions of euros were funneled through the Baltic branches by “low transparency” customers.

A Conservative minister lobbied Bahraini royal family members to secure a US$5 billion contract with Petrofac, an oilfield services provider that was being investigated by UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for alleged bribery, corruption and money laundering, the Guardian reported on Monday.

A Novaya Gazeta investigative reporter who three years ago exposed the Chechen gay purge said she and a human rights lawyer were attacked last week by an angry mob in the Chechen capital of Grozny.

The head of drug enforcement for the Philippine National Police told Reuters on Friday that the country’s draconian approach to curbing illicit drugs has been ineffective and that drug supply remains “rampant”.   

A group of determined activists are occupying customs offices, carrying out their own border controls and are monitoring banks in a continued effort to provoke change in Lebanon even after last year’s months-long massive anti-corruption protests died down, local newspaper L’Orient le jour reported on Thursday.