Macedonia’s Special Prosecutor’s Office announced Friday it is investigating 10 current and former members of the Balkan country’s secret service for taking part in the illegal wiretapping of nearly 6,000 citizens between 2008 and 2015.
Investment bank JPMorgan Chase reached a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday to pay US$ 264 million over its practice of giving jobs to the family members of Chinese officials and lawmakers.
China’s most-wanted corruption suspect turned herself in to the police on Wednesday after spending over a decade on-the-run in Europe, Asia and North America.
A Romanian court on Wednesday placed the head of the nation’s electoral monitor in pretrial detention for 30 days on suspicion of influence peddling and money laundering, local media reported.
Lithuanian authorities have nearly doubled the number of people and companies under investigation in the wake of the Panama Papers leak, including companies linked to Russian oil company Lukoil and the network of Vladimir Putin associate Sergey Roldugin, OCCRP partner 15min.lt has reported.
Russia’s Supreme Court overturned the conviction of opposition politician and anti-corruption blogger Alexei Navalny on Wednesday, sending his case to a lower court for retrial.
In a move that has human rights activists crying foul, Kazakh authorities detained a prominent local journalist Tuesday on allegations that he extorted money from public officials in exchange for favorable coverage.
Russian authorities arrested and charged the country’s Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev on Tuesday for allegedly receiving a US$ 2 million bribe, in the highest profile arrest of a senior official in more than two decades.
OCCRP’s Miranda Patrucic accepted the 2016 Knight International Journalism Award on Monday for reporting that, along with OCCRP journalism partners, has exposed corruption across Europe and Central Asia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina’s former wartime interior minister was among more than a dozen people detained over the weekend on allegations of being part of a group involved in crimes including real estate fraud and money laundering.