The legislature of India’s state of Maharashtra started an investigation on Monday into 1,300 public water conservation projects after 20 people were killed when walls collapsed in Mumbai and Prune.

A Bosnian businessman who revealed an ongoing corruption scandal shaking the country’s judiciary was questioned on Friday at the state Prosecutor’s Office as a suspect, local media reported. 

The Council of Europe’s legal advisors criticized last week Romania’s 2018 judicial reform saying it does not contribute to the fight against high-level corruption but may even be an obstacle.

South Africa’s Road Traffic Management Unit (RTMC) revealed last week that almost 100 license officials have been arrested over the past year for accepting bribes in exchange for driver’s licenses and other scams.

The Council of Europe passed a resolution last week denouncing Malta’s inaction in probing the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, who reported on corruption, nepotism, and money laundering, and exposed the shady dealings of numerous prominent Maltese officials and their associates.  

Russian journalist Ivan Golunov, who was recently freed from prison after a public outcry over false drug allegations, published a new investigation on Monday that delves into the corruption and organized-crime laden expansion of a 26 billion ruble (US$412.5 million) funeral business empire, revealing links between businessmen and high-ranking Russian officials.

As Kyrgyzstan's Parliament voted to strip former president Almazbek Atambayev’s immunity, he was busy barricading himself in his house, threatening to shoot at police if they came to take him away.

Known for the banking secrecy that has given the country its reputation as a “dirty money hub,” Switzerland now plans to tighten its anti-money laundering regulations and bring them in line with international standards.

To most people seahorses are cute, almost magical sea creatures but many in China prefer to see them in their soup or tea.

A major Japanese talent agency announced on Monday that it has suspended 11 of its comedians after it emerged the stars had attended a party hosted by an organized crime group.