OCCRP’s Bulgarian partner Bivol has identified a Bulgarian lawyer as the owner of a bank account allegedly used to launder hundreds of millions of dirty dollars on behalf of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.

Authorities in the Malaysian province of Sabah discovered two high-volume facilities containing thousands of boxes of pangolin meat, the world’s most trafficked mammal, a leading wildlife trafficking NGO said in a press release.

Robert Kocharyan, the former President of Armenia, is facing charges for having allegedly received bribes but his lawyer Aram Orbelyan told OCCRP on Thursday the charges were fake and the defense is suing for libel.

Equatorial Guinea issued an arrest warrant against a French anti-corruption lawyer as an alleged retaliation for his involvement in prosecuting the president’s son, human rights groups claimed Friday.

Italy’s Carabinieri police said Friday they captured a “dangerous” ‘Ndrangheta mafia fugitive, convicted for his role as a major international cocaine broker.

The branch leader of a Russian anti-corruption organization, Dmitry Gribov, was beaten to death in a town outside Moscow on Monday evening.

Estonian parliament again shelved the draft of a law that was to strengthen the rules on money-laundering, saying the bill will be discussed again after election in March, the Estonian Committee on Legal Affairs said on Thursday.

Maria Ressa, the editor of a Filipino news website critical of President Rodrigo Duterte, has been released on bail following charges that attracted international condemnation.

A federal jury in Laredo, Texas found six individuals guilty in connection with a two-year multi-million dollar money laundering scheme, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

A London court last week ordered the son of the former Prime Minister of Moldova to hand over nearly half a million pounds following an investigation conducted by the UK’s National Crime Agency.