Nicholas Sarkozy will in October become France’s first former president to be tried for corruption, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

Uzbekistan’s Supreme Court in Tashkent said it put on Wednesday Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, on trial for extortion, embezzlement of budget funds and money laundering abroad.

Carlos Ghosn, the ex-CEO of Nissan and Renault, refused during a press conference on Wednesday to explain how he managed to elude Japanese authorities in his recent Hollywood-style escape to Beirut, Lebanon, but said that he fled political persecution.

A Beijing court sentenced a former top official of the China Welfare Lottery to 11 years in prison for corruption that deprived the state budget of $108 million that could have been spent on social welfare.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) said that whistleblowers leaking information on tax evaders yielded over US$616 million in lost revenue to the US Treasury office this past fiscal year.

Switzerland’s Federal Police Office (Fedpol) deported two Italian citizens suspected of involvement in organized crime in 2019, marking the first time individuals have been forcibly expelled from the country on national security grounds because of their alleged ties to the mafia, according to German-language newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Pope Francis urged Christians on Tuesday to stay close to the Holy Spirit because the worldly spirit leaves them unable to separate good from bad and makes them prone to corruption - something the pontiff described as “worse than sin.”

The International Weightlifting Federation, IWF, denied on Monday allegations made by German broadcaster ARD a day earlier that some medal-winning athletes had bribed officials to conceal doping or hired doppelgangers who would be tested in their place.

Russian state lender VTB has sued a Mozambican government company over an unpaid loan that is part of a US$ 2 billion multinational fraud scandal known as “tuna bonds,” which plunged the Mozambique into deep financial crisis, Reuters reported Monday.

Egyptian authorities said on Saturday that they have arrested the head of the country’s tax agency and that he is suspected of having taken bribes from accountants.