Despite widespread public fury over the billions allegedly stolen by former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and his cronies, lawmakers last week could not push through a bill to claw back what had been taken.

After just five months in power, Croatian lawmakers voted Monday to dissolve Parliament, bringing an end to the coalition government led by Croatia’s Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) government.

The third cabinet minister to step down under the administration of interim President Michel Temer had a secret Swiss bank account, according to evidence presented by Attorney General Rodrigo Janot to Brazil’s Supreme Court.

The Romanian Constitutional Court (CCR) unanimously decided Wednesday that abuse of office remains a criminal offense, fending off an attempt by several indicted officials to weaken the law.

Seventy people, including former Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina and former Vice-President Roxana Baldetti, were charged Thursday in a scheme that allegedly saw money from kickbacks and illegal financing spent on shopping trips, real estate and fancy cars, the Associated Press (AP) said.

Svetozar Marovic, a close associate of Montenegrin Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic and a high-ranking official of the ruling Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS), has quit politics after signing an agreement with the Special Prosecutor and admitting several crimes, including heading a criminal organization that embezzled tens of millions of Euros from the state budget.

Police have arrested a 33-year-old Greek man in connection with an organized crime ring, which they say has been scamming the elderly since 2012. 

Authorities in Argentina arrested former Public Works Secretary Jose Lopez on Tuesday, saying they found him throwing an “obscene amount of cash” over the walls of the Our Lady of Fatima Convent, about 35 miles outside of Buenos Aires.

Bulgarian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Anton Ginev resigned on Tuesday after the prosecutor's office pressed charges against him for large-scale deliberate mismanagement of state funds between 2006 and 2009. 

Avni Metra is fighting extradition from the United Kingdom after he was identified as an alleged gang member and a brutal two-time murderer in a Daily Mail investigation.