A shell company seen as a tool for bribing Ukraine’s runaway president Viktor Yanukovych appears to have made payments to a firm that transferred money to Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, reporters of a Swedish broadcaster found after digging through leaked bank data.

A multi-million dollar scheme to bribe top African officials in order to boost a Chinese energy company has landed Patrick Ho, a former Hong Kong government official who US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman on Monday called “brazen,” to three years in jail.

A Palestinian journalist who had been sentenced to six months in prison in 2017 over an investigative report she authored about corruption in Gaza was acquitted on all charges in an appeal decision on Monday, Al Jazeera reported.

Former Brazilian President Michel Temer was released from jail on Monday as a judge ruled he poses no risk to the ongoing Lava Jato investigation while free.

Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Energy Krasimir Parvanov became the third top official to resign on Tuesday, after OCCRP partners revealed that a slew of Bulgarian politicians snagged luxurious real estate in Sofia, the nation’s capital, for just a quarter of market price.

Chinese anti-corruption authorities in the northwest Qinghai province have launched a three-month campaign to crack down on “Himalayan Viagra,” a fungus that is more valuable than gold and is used to bribe officials, the country’s anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), said in an online statement.

Thousands marched the streets of Kiev on Saturday demanding action on revelations made by journalists which implicate figures close to President Petro Poroshenko in a corruption scheme involving the state owned defense supplier Ukroboronprom.

Swedbank’s report into money laundering allegations has been criticised by investors and government ministers as an inadequate response to its alleged dirty money problem.

Brazil arrested ex-president Michael Temer for bribery connected to the Lava Jato, or “Car Wash” operation on Thursday, in a massive scandal dubbed “the largest foreign bribery case in history,” by the US Department of Justice.

Telecommunications or telecom fraud is a fast-growing field of criminal activity and a low-risk alternative to traditional methods of financial crime, costing today’s world some US$32.7 billion (€29 billion) annually, according to a joint report published Thursday by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre and Trend Micro, a Taiwanese cyber security and defense company.