Mexico’s president backed the head of the national electricity company, despite charges that he concealed some of his business dealings and made substantial, illicit profits, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

Telecom equipment producer Ericsson AB expects to pay a record US$1 billion to settle a US corruption probe concerning its conduct in six countries, the company statement said on Wednesday.

Pakistani authorities arrested last week the former head of Karachi’s parks and horticulture, who is suspected of having embezzled Rs 1 billion (US$6.4 million) through fake companies he had established to repair 71 non-existent parks over the past two decades.

Thousands of Indonesians, many of them students, battled police during protests against a law that some say will weaken the nation’s anti-corruption body, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.

Australian authorities arrested six players of an online video game who allegedly lost the matches on purpose, betting against themselves and bringing in up to AUD 30,000 (US$20,200), ABC reported Monday.

Aivar Rehe, the head of Danske Bank’s Estonian branch, was found dead on Wednesday after he went missing Monday evening from his home in Tallinn, the national ERR TV reported citing Estonia’s Police.

A Russian hacker pleaded guilty before the US District Court in Manhattan on Monday, admitting “one of the largest thefts of customer data from a US financial institution in history,” Geoffrey S. Berman, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced.

France's largest pharmaceutical company went on trial Monday on suspicion that their weight-loss drug has caused up to 2,000 deaths and lifelong consequences for many other patients, the Guardian reported.

French and Bulgarian law enforcement busted last week a labor trafficking and money laundering group, that had lured over 160 Bulgarians to France with promises of good earnings but then made them work for just food, according to a Tuesday press release from Europol.

Georgian authorities arrested last week several members of a child-trafficking crime group, accusing them of illegal production and distribution of child sexual exploitation material.