The CEO of Lithuania’s state-owned railway company has resigned after trying to bribe an OCCRP partner – only to have his clumsy attempt exposed in the national media.

Foreign leaders and officials who commit human rights abuses could have their assets in the United Kingdom seized under an amendment introduced to parliament by members of the country’s main parties.

An operation by 40 countries shut down a cybercrime network that used malware to steal hundreds of millions of dollars from email users around the world, law enforcement agencies announced Thursday.

Italian police captured the leader of a clan of the notorious ‘Ndrangheta crime group on Thursday, ending a six-year run in which he evaded the law.

The grandson of Kazakhstan’s authoritarian President Nursultan Nazarbayev took to social media on Wednesday to blast members of his grandfather’s inner circle after he lost a vote to head the country’s soccer association.

Romania's High Court of Cassation and Justice sentenced the former head of the country’s Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) to four years in prison on Tuesday for attempting to help a businessman dodge jail time for corruption, local media reported.

Italian police arrested 14 Albanian citizens on Wednesday who were allegedly part of a ring involved in the trafficking of women and drugs across Europe.

Spanish authorities detained four people on Monday suspected of being part of a migrant smuggling network that may have been used by the Islamic State (IS) to bring its members to Europe.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered to resign in a televised address on Tuesday after five straight weeks of massive protests calling for her to step down over a bizarre corruption scandal.

A daughter of Tajikistani President Rahmon Emomali has been appointed to a senior position in the country’s foreign ministry, the latest in a series of appointments for the strongman’s children that have raised accusations of increasing nepotism in the authoritarian Central Asian state.