Italian police said on Wednesday it detained 35 people and seized assets worth 30 million euros in a crackdown on a newly-discovered powerful ‘Ndrangheta clan near the southeastern coastal town of Crotone.

A UN report released this week details the various systems of bribery that are commonplace in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), facilitating work, travel, and even personal freedom.

British authorities have banned the sale of properties linked to a public official “believed to be involved in serious crime,” the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced Wednesday. 

The mayor of a Bulgarian municipality was arrested on Tuesday due to his alleged role in a corruption scheme involving a number of property sales that cost the community US$4.6 million.

Hundreds of Bosnians protested on Wednesday against corruption in the judiciary and called for resignations of top judicial officials whom they blame for the lack of rule of law in the country.

Russia’s federal Investigative Committee began preparing a criminal case against a Siberian official who tackled a journalist to the floor over the weekend after being confronted with questions about corruption.

Mexico’s Finance Ministry announced on Monday that it had frozen the bank accounts of Emilio Lozoya Austin, the former head of the state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex), due to allegations of corruption.

Nigeria’s commission on corruption (ICPC) established 1,500 anti-corruption clubs in schools throughout the country to celebrate International Children’s Day, ICPC announced on Monday.

Former security advisor to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani claimed in an interview with Khurshid TV last week, that some in the administration traded coveted government positions for sexual favors.

After years of corruption allegations, Liviu Dragnea, the leader of Romania’s the Social Democratic, was sentenced and jailed for three and a half years on Monday - only a day after Romanians voted for a ban on pardons for corrupt officials.