Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered the country’s Military Security Agency (VBA) to open an investigation shortly after a video was released this week showing an alleged Russian spy bribing a Serbian identified as a “Serbian high-positioned agent,” Serbian media reported.

Ten people have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling more than £15.5 million (US$20 million) out of the United Kingdom into Dubai, hidden in suitcases over the past three years, British authorities say.

Regulators have begun civil proceedings against Westpac Banking Corporation alleging more than 23 million money laundering rule breaches, Australia’s anti money-laundering and terrorism financing regulator (AUSTRAC) said Wednesday.

The General Court of the European Union on Wednesday gave a reprieve to Austria’s former Meinl Bank (now called Anglo Austrian Bank), allowing it to keep its banking license pending further court action.

Italian military police have broken up an international organized crime group that has ransacked stolen archaeological artefacts worth US$ 7 million from southern Italy sites, Europol announced this week.

A local businessman considered a “person of interest” in the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta two years ago was taken into custody Wednesday, the Times of Malta reported.

Two former Spanish politicians have been found guilty of misusing public funds and barred from running for office for their roles in a decades-long €680 million (US$752 million) fraud known as the ERE case, according to a judgement from the High Court of Justice of Andalusia.

Russian authorities seized more than 100 kilograms of narcotics, over 600 kilograms of chemicals that could be used to manufacture illegal drugs, along with a lot of other drug paraphernalia from drug traffickers, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced Tuesday. 

The US State Department imposed sanctions on Amos Sitswila Wako, the former long-time attorney general of Kenya, accusing him of involvement in “significant corruption,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement Monday.

About half a million workers lost jobs when several Algerian companies investigated for corruption discontinued operation, reports Middle East Monitor.