Because his health deteriorated while in detention for corruption, the High Court in Islamabad released Thursday former Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on bail, his lawyer said.

A dozen of hotel chains across the US have been accused by victims of profiting from sex trafficking by ignoring obvious signs of exploatation in their rooms, CNN reported on Wednesday.

A rising number of organized crime groups are turning their attention to Europe’s lucrative drug trafficking market, Europol said on Wednesday. By now, one-third of the 5,000 gangs operating in the European Union is involved in the production, trafficking, distributing and selling of drugs.

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor General Sotir Tsatsarov will preside over the country’s anti-graft body,  the Commission for Illegal Assets Forfeiture (CIAF), the Bulgarian Parliament decided on Wednesday.

Mexico’s former security minister has been arrested in the United States on charges of cocaine trafficking and accepting millions in bribes to help the Sinaloa cartel traffic drugs.

An Algerian court has handed down verdicts in a major corruption case, sentencing two former prime ministers to years prisons and heavy fines, Qatar-based outlet Al Jazeera reported Tuesday.

On International Human Rights Day Tuesday, the United States Treasury announced sanctions against Marian Kočner, a controversial businessman facing trial in Slovakia later this month for his alleged leading role in the murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiance Martina Kušnírová. 

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on several people and legal entities in Europe, Asia and Latin America under the Magnitsky Act, including Mayor of Ventspils in Latvia, according to Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, testifying this week in a Kuala Lumpur courtroom, said he had the right to use funds prosecutors allege were siphoned from his country’s strategic development fund to buy presents for his wife and for a former leader of Qatar.

Two anti-corruption groups hailed the start of a money laundering trial featuring the uncle of Syria’s dictator as a first step in combating corruption in France.