Israeli courts have convicted the wife of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of misusing public funds to pay for US$100,000 worth of private meals.

It will be harder for terrorists in the EU to build home-made bombs and authorities will now be able to check the bank accounts of suspected organized crime figures, the European Commission announced on Friday.   

Bulgarian authorities appear to be striking back at journalists whose investigations led to the “ApartmentGate” scandal that saw several members of the Bulgarian government resign, including its justice minister and the head of its anti-corruption commission.

The Sudanse prosecutor’s office charged Former President Omar al-Bashir with corruption on Thursday, a month after he was charged over his involvement in the death of protesters who plagued his administration before his overthrow.

The Guatemalan electoral court forced a mayoral candidate to give up his reelection campaign because of cocaine trafficking allegations, according to Reuters.

Switzerland improved its anti-corruption measures over the past few years but still has to work on the political independence of judges, the Council of Europe Group of States against Corruption (GRECO) said on Thursday.

Margaret Hunter, the wife of US Congressman Duncan D. Hunter, changed her plea on Thursday from not guilty to guilty of misusing quarter of a million dollars of campaign funds to pay for lavish vacations, extravagant parties, and other personal expenses.

A brief Parliamentary exchange between Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the leader of the New Democratic Party, Jagmeet Singh, on Tuesday provides a glimpse into the politicization of the country’s money laundering crisis, whose depth and scale, while a longtime “open secret”, was only more recently made public.

Mexican journalist Norma Sarabia Garduza, who reported on organized crime in the country’s southeast Tabasco State, was murdered Tuesday evening in front of her home in the city of Huimanguillo, the State Attorney confirmed. Norma Sarabia is the sixth journalist killed in Mexico this year.

A new report published Tuesday by Europol and the European Union Intellectual Property Office delves into the changing trends in the world of counterfeit goods that are increasingly run by organized crime groups.