Former Argentinean President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner was indicted on Tuesday in a case involving corruption in public works.

Romania’s president rejected a left-wing nominee for prime minister on Tuesday after a report by OCCRP partner RISE Project revealed her husband had made online comments in favor of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.

A Chinese court sentenced the former deputy head of the country's State General Administration of Sports, a post equivalent to that of a deputy minister, to ten-and-a-half years in prison on Monday for accepting bribes while serving in several government posts.

Media freedom watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Bulgaria to protect Dimitar Stoyanov, a journalist with OCCRP's Bulgarian partner Bivol, after more than a year of threats prompted by his reporting.

Romania’s president has said he will delay the nomination of the country’s next prime minister, after a report by OCCRP partner RISE Project revealed online postings by the husband of the front-runner in favor of Syrian President Bashar Al-Asad.

Financial giants Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse stated on Friday they were willing to pay more than US$ 12 billion to settle United States investigations into the sale of toxic mortgage-backed securities of the type that helped cause the 2008 global financial crisis.

Two Brazil-based companies have agreed to pay a record-breaking US$ 3.5 billion in fines to settle charges that they paid hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes as part of the South American country’s massive Petrobras scandal, the United States Department of Justice announced Wednesday.

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, who is running for president in 2018, published an expose of the offshore assets linked to the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday as part of a campaign to go after allies of President Vladimir Putin in the lead-up to the poll.

A former interior minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina charged in November with fraud vanished Tuesday after being released from pretrial detention earlier this month, local media reported.

At least 26 people have been killed in protests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Human Rights Watch said, amid a protracted crisis triggered by President Joseph Kabila’s refusal to step down at the end of his second and final term.