In what would be an unprecedented legal move, Michigan’s Attorney General Dana Nessel is considering applying federal racketeering laws to prosecute officials within the Catholic Church for their roles in covering up clerical sex abuse, according to an Associated Press investigation published Tuesday morning.  

A former Russian anti-corruption official was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Monday for being corrupt himself and was sent to a maximum security correctional facility, according to The Moscow Times.

The head of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo harshly criticized the Kosovo police during Monday’s UN Security Council meeting for the arrest of two UN staffers accused of hooliganism.

Meduza has allowed media free distribution of Ivan Golunov’s investigations that were previously copyrighted in order to spread the work of the journalist, whom authorities have put under house arrest after accusing him of drug dealing.

The reputations of the police chief in charge of the investigation and the doctor who assessed the condition of Ivan Golunov, the journalist who was arrested last week and charged with intent to sell drugs, have come under fire for their opaque histories.

A Delhi doctor was arrested Saturday for his involvement in an international kidney racket plot, according to Indian media.

Amid burning tires and police tear gas, anti-corruption protests in Haiti turned violent on Sunday, leaving two people dead and five injured, according to France 24.

Albania’s governing Socialist Party called for the impeachment of President Ilir Meta, a former party member, on Monday because of his decision to call off the country’s upcoming municipal elections and therefore side with the opposition who have organized months-long anti-government protests. 

A Russian investigative journalist who was arrested on Thursday in Moscow was formally charged on Saturday with intent to sell drugs that police claim they found when they searched him and his home.

Malta remains poised at the head of the European Union pack in terms of projected annual rates of economic growth, but this has also opened the country up to the increased proliferation of financial crime that it is currently not able to manage, according to the European Commission and Malta itself.