US authorities arrested on Wednesday two close associates of President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and indicted them with funneling foreign money to US politicians and trying to influence the country’s relations with Ukraine.

Authorities in 16 European countries have arrested hundreds of suspects and seized drugs worth more than US$90 million in a Europol-coordinated crackdown.

The US has sanctioned three brothers of the infamous Gupta family and one of their associates, accusing them of bribery and overpayments on government contracts to fund political contributions and influence the actions of the South African government.

Colombia’s Supreme Court says it will continue investigating a former president over allegations he tried to bribe a paramilitary group and then intimidate witnesses.

UK authorities arrested 13 members of an international organized crime group accused of importing 50 tonnes of drugs worth billions of pounds  from the Netherlands over a period of 18 months, the National Crime Agency announced Wednesday.

A whistleblower complaint filed with regulators states that Ethiopian Airlines went into the maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet just a day after it crashed this year, among other corrupt activities, reports the Associated Press.

Russia’s Ministry of Justice declared on Wednesday opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s Foundation for the Fight Against Corruption (FBK) - a “foreign agent,” which forces the anti-graft group to from now on disclose its donors and objectives.

Guatemala’s Constitutional Court on Monday ordered an injunction to stop an allegedly politically-motivated investigation into the UN-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG), Al Jazeera reported.  

Nigerian anti-corruption officials discussed on Tuesday how to effectively combat graft in the country’s ports, which annually lose up to 2.5 trillion naira (US$6.89 billion) to “negative operational elements,” according to the August Ports User Survey Report from the Convention on Business Integrity.

The European Court of Human Rights rejected on Tuesday Italy’s request for a referral and declared its June judgement that the country must change its laws on life imprisonment and milden its harsh prison regime for those who refuse to cooperate with the authorities final.