Vietnamese customs has seized over nine tonnes of ivory found in a container shipment from the Republic of Congo, thought to be the largest ivory seizure in recorded history.

Members of the European Parliament passed on Thursday a resolution condemning the eroding rule of law across the bloc, and calling for continued investigation of the murders of two journalists affiliated with OCCRP in the past two years.

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh would have not been able to rule from 1994 to 2016 without US and UK banks who had helped his corrupt and oppressive regime, Transparency International, TI, said Wednesday.

Popular Ukrainian comedian and presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy who tops the polls ahead the March 31 election failed to include his 15-room villa in Italy in his property declaration which all those running for official posts have to submit with accuracy, Slidstvo reported on Thursday.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) detained Tuesday a former minister on charges of embezzlement, the second minister to face prosecution in the past two years, the country’s Investigative Committee, known as Sledkom, said in a press release.

The former head of Interpol, whose disappearance in China last year prompted international concern, is to be prosecuted on charges of bribery, China’s Communist Party announced on Wednesday.

Birgitte Bonnesen was relieved of her duties as the CEO and president of Swedbank on Thursday amidst a money laundering scandal primarily related to the bank’s branches in the Baltic states.

Iraq has issued a warrant for the arrest of Nawfal Hammadi al-Sultan, the provincial governor of Nineveh, a week after a sinking ferry killed over 100 people and sparked a wave of popular anger over waste of funds and fraud in the city in Northern Iraq.

Well over US$3.6 billion (1.3 trillion naira) was stolen from public coffers between 2011 and 2015, a sum that could have secured the future of the next generation, the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Nigeria’s anti-graft body, said on Monday.

European Parliament on Tuesday adopted drastic new measures to tackle financial crime, including setting up an anti-money laundering watchdog and a financial police force, as well as the complete phasing out of the Golden Visas program.