Technology can be a powerful tool in the fight against corruption, the United Nations and the government of Denmark said this week at the International Anti-Corruption Conference in Copenhagen.

Supported by Europol, French and Italian police arrested 23 individuals and dismantled two criminal networks suspected of producing and distributing counterfeit banknotes that caused US$5.1 million in damages, a Europol press release said on Tuesday. 

The Slovakian government covered up EU fund misappropriation schemes exposed by murdered journalist Jan Kuciak, President Andrej Kiska said in an open letter on Monday.

A bomb was discovered on Monday in the mailbox of the New York home of philanthropist George Soros, reported the New York Times. No one was injured.

Transparency International (TI) honored murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and Spanish whistleblower Ana Garrido Ramos with the 2018 Anti-Corruption Award at a ceremony held on Monday in Denmark.

Albanian State Police police said Monday they arrested 27 suspects, seized weapons, charged three officers and confiscated drugs in a major crackdown against heroin trafficking.

Haitian President Jovenel Moise removed Monday two top government officials in a purge of people linked to a corruption scandal that sparked violent mass protests last week, Channel News Asia reported. 

Sales of illegal weapons have doubled in Ukraine in the past year, according to the national police, many of them smuggled from the east of the country where a war against Russia-backed separatists still simmers.

India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested its own special director for allegedly receiving bribes in exchange for leniency for a businessman whom he probed in a massive corruption case involving India’s largest meat exporter, the Shillong Times reported on Sunday.

The United Nations’ fight against illegal drugs over the past 10 years has failed and even led to more drug use and violence, the International Drug Policy Consortium said in a report released on Sunday.