Police in Toronto charged 60 people and seized over CAD$45 million (US$34 million) worth of drugs during two investigations into organized crime and the illicit drug trade.

Bullet-filled bodies of nine people were found early Thursday morning hanging on a bridge decorated with avocado murals in Uruapan, Mexico, photos posted to Twitter showed. Next to the bodies, a white banner hung with a message threatening residents if they helped certain individuals they would end up like the victims on the bridge.

The Vatican released Pope Francis’s renewed statutes for the governance of the Vatican Bank on Saturday, which will bring in an external auditor for the first time and introduce new ethical guidelines for members of the bank's staff. 

Malaysian prosecutors filed on Friday criminal charges against 17 current and former directors of one of the largest banking enterprises in the world - New York City-based Goldman Sachs - for their alleged involvement in the multi-billion Malaysian development fund theft scandal.

 South African prosecutors have over the past year sentenced 350 people, of which 210 government officials convicted of graft involving more than R5 Million (US$324,415.19), the South African reported on Saturday.

Russian investigative reporters say they revealed a bank racketeering scheme that saw officials of Russia’s top intelligence agency requesting a cut from the cash flow in return for not closing it down or driving banks into bankruptcy.

The Azerbaijani Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday tax evasion charges against investigative journalist Khadija Ismayilova in what critics called a vindictive act of President Ilham Aliyev, a violation of the country’s law, and a breach of its international obligations.

Interpol and West African border authorities rescued over 100 possible human trafficking victims, confiscated six bars of gold valued at US$12,000 and seized several varieties of illegal drugs, including cocaine and methamphetamines, Interpol said on Tuesday.

Romania's anti-corruption unit (DNA) said on Thursday that it has launched an investigation into bribery allegations against the CEO of the country’s Oracle branch who is suspected of having given IT companies discounts on products in exchange for bribes.

Undercover agents caught the lawyer of a Tajik bank trying to remove three apartments from the bank’s mortgage list in exchange for bribes, authorities said on Wednesday.