Colombian investigators on Friday ordered the protection of 11 soldiers who testified against former General Mario Montoya and former Colonel Hernan Mejia who are accused of killing civilians after having dressed them as rebel fighters, according to Colombia Reports.

Italy has been looking for him for a quarter of a century and was awaiting his extradition when the Uruguayan Interior Ministry announced on Monday that Milan’s “cocaine king,” Rocco Morabito, had escaped from prison. 

Bosnia’s top judicial official - embroiled in an ongoing corruption scandal surrounding allegations of bribery - has stated that he plans to take legal action against those he claims “defamed” him, local news reported Friday.

The Mexican Government auctioned on Sunday luxurious properties seized from criminal cartels, raising only one third of the expected US$8.8 million as buyers showed limited appetite for gang safe houses and mansions with swimming pools and escape tunnels that belonged to drug traffickers.

Czech flags and signs stating “We don’t want Babis” filled Prague’s Letna Plain park on Sunday as over 250,000 protesters demanded Prime Minister Andrej Babis resign over allegations of fraud.

Authorities in 78 countries detained hundreds of people and seized tampered, intentionally mislabeled, and outright dangerous food worth US$117 million, Interpol announced on Friday.

Iran’s new conservative chief justice, Ebrahim Raisi, has dismissed 60 judges around the country since May in an “intensified” anti-corruption crackdown, his deputy said in a press conference on Wednesday, according to Al-Monitor.

Equatorial Guinea said it wants to rejoin a group that works on curbing corruption in resource-rich countries after it was kicked out in 2010 for repressing civil society and keeping oil, gas and mining revenues secret.

The Chairman of Georgia’s Parliament resigned on Friday after more than 240 people, including 34 journalists, were injured and 305 were arrested as police cracked down on protests that erupted when a Russian lawmaker sat in the wrong chair during a visit to the Parliament.

The UN investigator assigned to review Jamal Khashoggi’s murder in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Turkey held on Wednesday Saudi Arabia responsible for actions she called an ‘international crime’ and is expected to deliver her 100-page report to the UN next week.