A Brazilian judge fined Facebook US$33.4 million on Thursday for failing to cooperate with prosecutors in a graft probe in the state of Amazonas. 

A South Korean court found former President Park Guen-Hye guilty of bribery, coercion and power abuse and sent her behind bars for 24 years in a landmark ruling meant to send a message to future leaders, CNN reported Friday.

In the heart of Calabrian mafia country, a farmer cooperative was damaged for the fourth time in the past year, reported il Fatto Quotidiano on Wednesday. But the farmers say they will bow down to no one - not even the ‘Ndrangheta.

After 10 hours of deliberation, Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered on Thursday ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to begin serving his 12-year prison sentence while he continues to appeal his corruption conviction.

Voters in Costa Rica chose a president who does not seem ready to deal with the country’s growing role in the region’s drug trade, InSight Crime reported on Monday.

A Moscow Court opened a hearing on Wednesday on how a former prizefighter killed crime boss Karen “Lipetsky” Petrosyan at a gas station in Moscow over US$1.7 million, Rosbalt reports.

Ukrainian lawmakers will uphold a requirement for activists to declare their wealth despite European warnings that the law undermines anti-graft efforts, Reuters reported Tuesday.

Two Russian environmental activists were beaten up when they returned from taking photographs of a private chapel illegally built on forest land on the Black Sea Coast. A gang of thugs was waiting for them at their offices in Krasnodar, Russia’s Novaya Gazeta revealed on Monday.

The outgoing Europol director, Rob Wainwright, says that Europe’s work to curb money laundering is insufficient as illegal cash moves too easily through its banking system.

The mastermind of a cybercrime syndicate responsible for bank heists totaling over US$1 billion was arrested in Spain, Europol announced last week.