Uruguay’s reputation for stability on a continent wracked with political and social unrest has made its law enforcement authorities too complacent to prevent the country from becoming a drug trafficking hub in recent years, German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported Tuesday.
Police in Mexico and Argentina have repurposed luxury cars seized from criminals, even though officers have been accused of corruption and affiliating with organized crime groups, InSight Crime reported on Monday.
Riot police used teargas and water cannons to try to disperse protesters who took to the streets on Tuesday to demand President Juan Orlando Hernandez’s resignation after the US accused him of turning Honduras into a narco-state, the BBC reported.
The Kazakh National Security Committee has put off a requirement that citizens install a tool on devices on their electronics designed to protect against cyberattacks in the face of suspicion that the devices actually allow surveillance by government and outsiders.
The United Nations is investigating allegations that members of its staff stationed in Yemen were involved in corruption, nepotism, and have allowed a senior Houthi rebel access to a UN vehicle, an Associated Press investigation revealed Monday.
Police arrested three suspects of corruption after having infiltrated the ranks of city employees and having caught the suspects operating a bribery scheme that doled out gifts for political favors, the Times of Israel reported Wednesday.
For the third weekend in a row Moscow authorities have gone after protesters agitating for free city elections, arresting demonstrators at a higher rate than earlier, even though the crowd was smaller.
A week after he was detained, Tanzanian investigative journalist Erick Kabendera appeared in a Dar es Salaam court on Monday and was charged with organized crime, tax evasion and money laundering, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
Algerian courts ordered the arrest of three former ministers from President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s administration on Monday and Tuesday, the latest in a series of corruption charges against the previous President’s allies.
Russian authorities have begun investigating the Foundation for the Fight Against Corruption of jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny, on suspicion of laundering one billion rubles (US$15.3 million), the Investigative Committee of Russia said in a statement.