Ukrainian authorities questioned on Monday a former security service agent whom journalists identified as a possible witness to last year’s murder of their colleague Pavel Sheremet in Kyiv.

A former judge pleaded guilty on Friday for taking money from a Kentucky lawyer to approve hundreds of fraudulent disability cases in a scheme that stripped the government of more than US$550 million in disability payments, the Washington Times reported.

Italian police said Monday that in a crackdown on a mafia gang they arrested 14 people and took control over several businesses, including four management offices of the Lidl supermarket chain.

A Kazakh journalist and civic activist was stabbed in the stomach on an overnight train Sunday before he was due to meet with European officials to discuss shrinking press freedoms.

Italian authorities said Monday they arrested 68 suspected members of a ‘Ndrangheta mafia group that stole food from migrants at Italy’s largest reception center, siphoning off over 30 million euros in state funds.

Anti-corruption police in four countries are investigating a British firm for allegedly bribing a Norwegian official to forge the export license of seven naval vessels that ended up in the hands of a Nigerian warlord, the Guardian reported Sunday.

Factories, hospitals and major corporations around the world grounded to a halt Friday after ransomware hit 200,000 targets in 150 countries, the largest cyber-attack of its kind ever recorded.

Prevezon Holdings Limited, a Cyprus-based company, agreed on Friday to pay US$5,896,333.65 to the US Treasury to settle a money laundering and civil forfeiture action uncovered by the deceased Russian lawyer Sergei Magnistsky.

Several former Afghan National Army generals own luxurious properties they never would have been able to buy with the modest salaries they received when they served under the country’s previous administration, an investigation revealed Thursday.

A Mexican woman who became a prominent activist for families of missing relatives after a cartel killed her daughter was murdered in her home on Wednesday - Mother’s Day in Mexico.