Migration to Europe is easier if you’re rich, according to a report released Wednesday by Transparency International and Global Witness. The report highlights the accessibility to European countries through Golden Visa schemes that mostly benefit the powerful and even the corrupt.

An associate with close ties to the Indian-South African Gupta family is set to testify at the family’s naturalization hearing, but first, he has a few demands - a return business class airline ticket for himself from New Delhi, which the South African Parliament estimates will cost a whopping US$12,100, the Sunday Times reported.

The US Treasury targeted two companies and 21 individuals, including four alleged crime leaders, tied to Japan’s largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, Asia Times reported Monday.

Guatemala’s Former Vice President Roxana Baldetti was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her part in a fraud that saw millions of dollars embezzled from the state budget to “decontaminate” a lake with a fake “cleanup solution,” the BBC reported on Wednesday.

A US federal court ordered two men to disgorge over US$50 million after it found them guilty of tax fraud for selling “inoperable” solar equipment to tens of customers who then cashed in on lucrative tax deductions.

The European Union and Albania signed an agreement last Friday to strengthen judicial coordination in the fight against organized crime in the Western Balkan nation. The deal represents a significant step in combating cross-border crimes including drug trafficking, human smuggling, and contract killings, according to a press release by Eurojust, the EU signatory.

Italian authorities arrested 14 alleged members of Naples’ mafia, the Camorra, who are suspected of having sold drugs using cameras and gun-toting pushers to control their turf, Italian media reported Monday.

Following sanctions the US Treasury imposed in April against Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska, authorities have frozen his Upper East Side mansion, occupied by the ex-wife of his business partner Roman Abramovich, the New York Post reported Monday.

France’s ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy lost on Monday a first appeal against facing trial on influence peddling and corruption charges, according to Reuters. The Paris prosecutor’s office told the outlet that he must now wait for a second appeal before he will know if he will be tried in court.

Two weeks after Meng Hongwei, the president of Interpol, went missing after sending his wife a mysterious knife emoji, Chinese authorities announced that he was being detained and investigated over bribery allegations.