Brazil’s Supreme Court confirmed that Senator Aecio Neves will stand trial for corruption and obstruction of justice charges, a news release stated Tuesday.

Former British Prime Minister David Cameron indicated foul play might be why the U.K. lost the bid to host the FIFA 2018 World Cup to Russia,  The Independent reported.

The European Union should open membership negotiations with Macedonia and Albania as long as the countries maintain progress on reforms to rule of law and the fight against corruption and organized crime, the European Commission announced on Tuesday.

Police in Osaka arrested on Tuesday four gang members, including their boss, during a raid of an office linked to a yakuza clan, according to the Tokyo Reporter.

German authorities raided more than 60 brothels and apartments and detained several suspects during Wednesday’s nationwide crackdown on forced prostitution and organized crime.

Slovak Interior Minister Tomas Drucker resigned on Monday saying he could not appease public demands to fire the country’s police chief because he has no evidence against him, Reuters reported Monday.

Two colonels of the Russian Federal Security Service, FSB, were detained on suspicion of receiving bribes and being tied to the Zakonovskie organized crime group, Kommersant reported Monday.

Scores gathered in Malta on Monday to mark the six-month anniversary of the anti-corruption journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder.

The lawyers of former crime boss Francis Salemme told the US court in Boston that statements made by a man he allegedly murdered were “inadmissible hearsay,” the Boston Globe reported on Monday.

On two occasions last Sunday, unknown attackers shot at the Lahore home of a Pakistani Supreme Court judge who is monitoring the multiple corruption cases against the ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif. Nobody was injured in the two attacks, Punjab provincial authorities said.