Spanish authorities arrested nine suspected members of a drug ring and seized 1,600 pounds of cocaine Thursday, which the Colombian gang had hidden in carved out pineapple skins in a shipment heading to Madrid.
South African prosecutors moved to freeze US$ 130 million worth of assets held by McKinsey & Co. and Trillian Capital Partner, a company with close ties to the allegedly corrupt Gupta family, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Cyprus has issued an EU arrest warrant against a whistleblower on high-level corruption in Malta that members of the European Parliament last month asked member states to protect, media in Cyprus reported on Tuesday.
The Bulgarian anti-corruption law saga got a new chapter on Wednesday, when the opposition filed a motion of no-confidence in PM Boyko Borissov’s government which is trying to push a controversial law opponents have labeled as a “covering-up corruption law.”
Prosecutors in Panama are investigating a network of more than 30 people including former high-level officials alleged to have taken bribes worth US$40 million between 2011 and 2012 for public works projects, Attorney General Kenia Porcell told Reuters on Monday.
Federal authorities indicted ten suspected members of the Sicilian mafia on Friday with extortion, loansharking, wire and mail fraud, narcotics distribution, and conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the Cosa Nostra.
Protesters in Guatemala demanding the resignation of President Jimmy Morales and over half of the Congress over alleged corruption have been met with violent repression by military, state, and private police, including heavily armed riot unit, Kaibiles, reports Telesur.
Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv this weekend for the eighth consecutive week to protest corruption and to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to resign as prime minister, the Times of Israel reported.
The nationalist party that governed Catalonia for most of the post-Franco era has been ordered to repay €6.6 million after being found guilty of running a kickbacks-for-contracts scheme.
The International Monetary Fund has informed the Ukrainian government that it does not support the proposed creation of an anti-corruption court because there is no guarantee of its independence or transparency. The rejection will prolong payment, already delayed, of a multi-million dollar loan tranche installment.