Russian media published on Friday a video showing bags of cash and claimed it was shot as Russian Government officials seized 12 billion rubles (US$185 million) from the apartment of former FSB official Colonel Kirill Cherkalin.
After the United States sanctioned a Mexican judge and a former governor for allegedly taking bribes from drug cartels, Mexican President Andres Manuel López Obrador announced on Tuesday that he will go after other judges who have made similar deals.
A secretly-filmed video showing Austria’s Vice Chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, discussing corrupt deals has thrown the government into turmoil and forced the far-right politician to resign on Saturday.
Madagascar’s Anti-Corruption Agency (BIANCO) gave federal prosecutors the names of 79 Members of the National Assembly that it assessed were involved in a corruption scandal last year, AFP reported on Friday.
A Ukrainian oligarch who allegedly masterminded the theft of US$5.5 billion from one of the country’s largest commercial lenders has returned to the country on Thursday after years spent in exile in Switzerland and Israel.
The appellate court in Almaty upheld on Thursday charges against a Kazakh activist who during a marathon race filmed people holding a banner that read “You cannot run away from the truth,” which authorities interpreted as participating in an unauthorized rally.
The European Union launched on Thursday a €2.2 million (US $2.5 million) initiative to fight corruption and organized crime in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
United Australia Party leader Clive Palmer has contributed AUS$70 million (US$48.2 million) to his party’s campaign, which ends on election day this Saturday, most of which he earned thanks to tax cuts he helped pass, media reported on Thursday.
The EU’s threats to withdraw Romania’s voting rights, funding, and to block it from entering the visa-free Schengen area over the country’s addressal of corruption is “wrong” and “dangerous,” Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă said on Wednesday.