The lawyer for a Zimbabwe cabinet minister who is being investigated for corruption involving a real estate deal with a relative told OCCRP on Friday that his client simply inherited the mess.

After South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced he would be holding the Police Minister responsible for the lack of rape kits in some police stations while the number of sexual crimes in the country was on the rise, the Minister blamed on Thursday corruption for the problem.

Four members of a family have turned over more than a dozen properties across the United Kingdom and Spain worth US$10.3 million after British authorities accused them of buying them with dirty money.

Corrupt officials around the World have mastered the art of hiding bribe money, but a Moscow transport security officer has come up with a new, pretty unhealthy method on Wednesday when he stuffed his mouth with banknotes and tried to swallow them as he saw police approaching his office.

The New York Times revealed on Sunday that billions in EU farm subsidies designed to help keep the rural areas of the Continent alive end up in the pockets of well connected members of the Central and Eastern European elite.

A Peruvian judge has ordered 14 lawyers to be detained as an investigation is conducted involving alleged favoritism in the awarding of public-works contracts with a value of at least US$250m to Brazilian construction company Odebrecht, according to Al Jazeera.

An Ohio drug trafficker has pleaded guilty to laundering more than US$19 million of narcotics profit on the dark web over the course of two years.

A subsidiary of a major Polish oil company that operates in Lithuania received hundreds of millions of dollars in discounts for freight transportation along with other special treatment from Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’s government, according to an investigative report by 15min.lt.  

Moscow authorities launched a criminal investigation on Thursday, after 29 school children with food poisoning symptoms have been hospitalized, the Moscow Interregional Investigative Directorate said in a statement.

Croatian police rescued nine illegal migrants from a screwed-down wooden crate Tuesday after stopping a van with Polish license plates near the country’s eastern borders with Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, police said in a statement.