Two former Algerian prime ministers have been detained this week for their involvement in a corruption scandal in a sweeping purge of officials that have served the Bouteflika government.

Moscow police detained about 200 out of the 2,000 people who marched on Wednesday to show support for journalist Ivan Golunov, even though he was released a day earlier.

The Communist Party of China said on Tuesday it placed a top official from the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia under investigation in what seems to be a sequel of the country’s anti-graft campaign.

U.S. Transportation Department Secretary Elaine Chao oversaw the creation of a special liaison to help the state of Kentucky secure federal funds for state projects, prompting Politico to question whether the state received special treatment because Chao’s husband, Mitch McConnell, is a Kentucky senator.

The Russian Minister of the Interior announced on Tuesday that charges against Ivan Golunov were dropped and he was released from custody. He also said that he petitioned the Kremlin for officials involved in the case to be investigated.

Police in Northern Ireland seized weapons, drugs and illicit cigarettes from a pro-unification paramilitary group on Tuesday.

In just one year Egyptian authorities seized a record LE3.4 billion (US$178 million) from money laundering crimes, government officials said on Tuesday.

A number of top Brazilian prosecutors, including current Justice Minister Sérgio Moro, conspired to prevent former left-wing President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his Workers’ Party from winning the 2018 presidential elections, according to an exclusive report published by The Intercept on Sunday evening. 

Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, whom former Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev picked as his successor when he stepped down at the beginning of this year, was sworn in on Wednesday after mass arrests and vote-rigging concerns marked his Sunday election victory.

Former Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari, widower of late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, was arrested on Monday in Islamabad over a fake bank accounts and money laundering case, the country’s anti-graft watchdog National Accountability Bureau (NAB) said.