The Ukrainian Parliament approved on Thursday a first reading of a draft law that would create an anti-corruption court that was demanded from reformers and Western allies Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported.

A politician from central Asia with a multi-million pound property portfolio has been the first person in the UK to be subject to an “unexplained wealth order” as authorities attempt to stop the flow of dirty money through London.

The Council of Europe has told Greece to improve anti-graft efforts in the legislative and judicial branches and to enhance transparency of party financing, according to two reports released Thursday.

Albanian police said Wednesday that they seized 613 kilograms of cocaine that arrived from Colombia in a shipment of bananas.

The border guard who accused an Azerbaijani journalist of assaulting him while illegally crossing the border from Georgia failed to appear on Friday  at an Appeals Court hearing in Shaki.

Indonesian lawmakers have come under fire for quietly passing a law that protects them from criticism and prosecution and even allows them to sue those who criticize them, ABC News reported Wednesday.

The former Honduran First Lady, Rosa Elena Bonilla, was arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of embezzling around US $500,000 from public initiatives intended for the poor, the Organization of American States (OAS) announced.

Investigative reporter and activist Khadija Ismayilova asked the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on Wednesday why it was tolerating corrupt politicians in its ranks.

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince, who spearheaded the kingdom’s controversial anti-corruption purge last November, compared the measure to chemotherapy since it was necessary to heal the country and help balance the budget, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.

Prosecutors asked that former South Korean president Park Geun-hye be sentenced to 30 years in prison, accusing her of “disrupting constitutional order and damaging the public’s trust in state power” as part of her ongoing corruption trial, The Associated Press reported Tuesday.