As part of Pope Francis’ efforts to clean up the finances of the Holy See, the Vatican announced it froze more than two million euros (US$ 2.1 million) in 2016 suspected to be linked to money laundering.

The husband of Spain's Princess Cristina will spend more than six years in prison for using his royal connections to embezzle more than € 6 million (US$ 6.6 million) of public money, media reported Friday.

Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong was arrested on Friday for his alleged connection to the influence-peddling scandal that rocked South Korea at the end of last year and lead to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye, state media reported.

Authorities in El Salvador said they arrested 10 people for helping former President Elias Antonio Saca launder US$ 22 million of public money.

The recent spike in deportation raids sweeping the United States has inspired scam artists to prey on people’s fears and pose as immigration agents demanding money from immigrants to avoid deportation, New York Attorney General warned on Wednesday.

Moroccan and Spanish authorities arrested 10 people suspected of having trafficked dozens of Nigerian women to Spain, forcing them to prostitute for as little as € 5 (US$ 5.3) under "conditions of absolute slavery," a police report said Tuesday.

Indonesia's former top graft fighter has accused the country’s ex-president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, of ordering he be framed for a 2009 murder. He also claimed he was earlier threatened on Yudhoyono's behalf by the billionaire local business partner of United States President Donald J. Trump.

The United States government slapped sanctions on Venezuelan Vice President Tareck El Aissami for playing “a significant role in international narcotics trafficking,” the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said Monday.

Kazakh authorities arrested a newspaper editor as part of an investigation into a multi-billion dollar banking scam, but the former head of BTA Bank — which is at the center of the scandal — took to Facebook Monday calling the charges against Zhanbolat Mamay "absurd" and claiming that he never even met the journalist.

Belgrade’s powerful mayor Sinisa Mali organized last year’s violent demolition of a Belgrade neighborhood because it stood in the way of the ‘Belgrade Waterfront’ construction project, Mali’s ex-wife told Crime and Corruption Reporting Network, KRIK.