Egypt’s former interior minister, known as the "enforcer" of ousted President Mubarak’s regime, was sentenced Saturday to seven years in jail for stealing over EGP 2 billion (US$ 110 million) in public funds.
The jailed CEO at the center of Brazil’s Carwash corruption scandal has confirmed that his company Odebrecht paid US$ 3 million in bribes to a third Peruvian former president.
The former governor of Russia’s Mari El Republic was arrested Thursday on suspicion of taking US$ 4.4 million in bribes from a poultry factory owner.
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) fined the private British bank Coutts HK$ 7 million (US$ 900,000) Tuesday for breaching anti-money laundering rules, after the bank had been hit with similar fines in Switzerland and Singapore for its connection to Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal.
Rio de Janeiro’s former mayor Eduardo Paes is accused of accepting at least US $5 million in bribes from construction giant Odebrecht in connection with contracts for the 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil, Yahoo Sports reported Thursday.
Seven Albanian drug trafficking suspects were arrested after authorities chased their speedboat for nearly 22 hours across the Mediterranean Sea in a movie-like operation involving high speed boats, helicopters and planes.
Brazil’s Supreme Court Judge ordered investigations Tuesday into 108 people, including eight cabinet ministers and dozens of MPs, suspected of involvement in the Petrobras bribery scandal.
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was honored with the Pulitzer Prize on Monday for spearheading a year-long secret investigation that produced a series of stories “using a collaboration of more than 300 reporters on six continents to expose the hidden infrastructure and global scale of offshore tax havens,” the judges said.
The High Court in Auckland sent Tuesday a Hong Kong man behind bars for 11 and a half years for his involvement in a multi-million dollar Chinese drug syndicate, New Zealand media reported.
The U.S. Justice Department announced Monday an "extensive" operation to dismantle the Kelihos Botnet, a global network of tens of thousands of infected computers under the control of a Russian cybercrime kingpin.