When Shell was buying the OPL 245 oil field in Nigeria for US$1.3 billion, its executives knew that 1.1 billion will land in the pocket of former petroleum minister and convicted money launderer, Dan Etete, media reported Monday.

Italian authorities captured in Florence Sunday a fugitive Mexican former-governor charged with drug smuggling, bank fraud, racketeering and money laundering, Mexico’s attorney general’s office announced.

Alfredo Beltran Leyva, an ex drug cartel leader once allied with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman received a life sentence in a U.S. prison on Wednesday after pleading guilty to running a drug trafficking operation that smuggled tons of cocaine and methamphetamine into the U.S.

Hackers posing as students applying for financial aid fraudulently obtained 8,000 tax refunds, costing the US government $30 million and exposing thousands of people to identity theft, the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday.

Samsung’s de facto leader Lee Jae-yong denied on Friday bribery allegations at his first court hearing in connection to the influence-peddling scandal that end of last year lead to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, state media reported.

Federal agents raided on Wednesday the Los Angeles-area facilities of a business suspected to be involved in a US$ 50 million visa fraud operation that helped rich Chinese nationals, some fugitives, obtain green cards.

A former public servant was sentenced Thursday to eight years in prison for fraudulently awarding AUS $15.3 million (US$ 13.8 million) of government contracts to businesses he covertly operated, The Australian reported.  

Nigeria’s former oil minister was charged with money-laundering Wednesday after allegedly bribing election officials 264 million naira (US$ 1.3 million) to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan in the 2015 elections.

Brazil’s top electoral court on Tuesday began a trial to determine whether President Michel Temer accepted illegal donations to finance his 2014 election campaign. The outcome could remove him from office.

Authorities in Russia launched a criminal investigation against the governor of the Udmurtia region Alexander Solovyov for allegedly taking some US$ 2.5 million in bribes, the country's Investigative Committee said in a statement Tuesday.