Over twenty members of the European Parliament demanded on Thursday sanctions against two bankers whose banks were involved in a money-laundering scheme that has moved billions of dollars from Russia to the west.

A prominent Venezuelan journalist who had been reporting on the country’s political crisis was released from detention by authorities late Tuesday after spending over 24 hours in lockup.

The head of Danske Bank’s Estonian branch said that he “feels responsible” for the scandal that befell the branch in the wake of the 2017 revelations that many of the transactions worth 200 billion euros (US $226 billion) were suspicious, but that he did nothing wrong he told OCCRP’s Estonian partner Postimees.

Francesco Cali, the reputed boss of New York’s Gambino crime family, was fatally shot outside his home on Staten Island on Wednesday night, in the first targeted killing of a mob boss in the city in over 30 years.

Ukraine’s new State Bureau of Investigation will look into allegations that Ukrainian law enforcement agencies accepted bribes in exchange for closing probes into a corruption scheme that saw cronies of the president illegally extract millions from the country’s defense industry.

Dozens of parents, including Hollywood actresses, have been arrested and charged alongside test administrators and elite college sports coaches in multiple states across the US in a multi-million dollar scheme that facilitated admission into elite colleges across the US in return for bribes.

As money laundering scandals make headlines and public anger mounts about the massive amounts of unexplained cash flowing into European nations and banks, governments will go one of two directions: court the world’s ultra-wealthy, or make life more difficult for them.

The European Commission has moved to include 15 additional countries in its expanded list of non-cooperative tax jurisdictions, which will tighten controls on financial transactions between those nations and the European Union.

Britain’s anti-money laundering regulations are not enforced by accountancy and legal associations due to fear it would lose them members, a watchdog report revealed on Tuesday.

The leader of a multi-billion dollar scheme involving the sale of fraudulent crypto-currency OneCoin, was arrested on Friday at Los Angeles International Airport, according to a US Justice Department press release.