A federal judge ordered on Thursday the release of 27 people, saying they were illegally arrested and evidence against them was fabricated. Police believed the individuals were members of a drug cartel.
A Pakistani court granted bail to jailed former PM Nawaz Sharif on medical grounds Friday, his lawyer told media.
Sharif, 69, was ousted from his post in July 2017 for lying about his wealth after the Panama Papers leaks, which showed he and his family had undeclared businesses in Saudi Arabia and luxurious apartments in London.
UK services and institutions played a significant role in some of the biggest corruption scandals as they allowed 325 billion pounds (US$412 billion) of suspect transactions to flow through the country’s financial system, Transparency International UK revealed in its latest research.
The man who was until last week in charge of Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s infamous war on drugs is now being accused of having resold the confiscated drugs along with a dozen colleagues, the BBC reported this week.
Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong appeared in a Seoul court Friday on bribery charges, after the Supreme Court overturned his 2017 acquittal.
With mass anti-corruption protests gripping Lebanon for over a week, the country’s president urged on Thursday citizens to back economic reforms proposed by the prime minister as the "first step" toward saving the country from economic collapse, the Associated Press reported.
A Ukrainian official who was recently named one of the country’s top prosecutors secretly acted as a key go-between in Rudy Giuliani’s backchannel campaign to dig up information in the country that could damage U.S. President Donald J. Trump’s political rivals.
Authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina have seized about 300 kilograms of cannabis worth about two million euros (US$2.227 millions), and are looking for two people who are linked to the drugs, the State Prosecution Office said.
Dutch police say they are hunting for five alleged members of a Scottish gang they believe are connected to the death of popular crime blogger Martin Kok in 2016.
Serbian police arrested last week an Instagram star and her friend after officers found a significant amount of weapons and ammunition in their apartments in Novi Sad.