A federal judge sent on Wednesday former Petrobras CEO Aldemir Bendine to jail for 11 years for taking US$1million in bribes from the Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, Reuters reported.

Boosting its chances at the upcoming general elections, the ruling party of ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif won over the weekend a majority in the upper house of Pakistan’s parliament.

An appeal court is expected to rule on a peculiar corruption case in Timisoara, Romania, involving a former police chief and a suspended judge who are accused of using their Freemason connections to accept bribes and shield acquaintances from criminal investigations,  Balkan Insight reported.

A former South Korean president is being summoned on allegations of bribery by prosecutors currently investigating high-level political corruption in the country, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was convicted of multiple corruption charges on Thursday after he sold public works contracts to fund future political campaigns.

TeliaSonera and Turkcell sold their stakes in an Azerbaijani mobile operator presumed to have been dubiously privatized by President Ilham Aliyev’s family which may have earned as much as US$ 1 billion from the corrupt deal.

The former chief of Macedonia’s anti-corruption commission has resigned from the country’s parliament after the publication of a damning audit that exposed corruption in the State Commission for the Prevention of Corruption.

A corruption trial of Royal Dutch Shell and Eni executives that was to start on Monday was postponed by the court in Milan until May 14, according to Reuters.

Cambodia’s rich wildlife is dying at a rate faster than anywhere else in the world largely due to the army’s participation in the billion-dollar black market for timber, and impunity for the murderers of environmental activists, Deutsche Welle reported Monday.

The two former members of Guatemalan government will face trial on charges of embezzlement and fraud, following their February arrest, the Public Prosecutor’s office announced Thursday.