Mexican authorities said today that they had rescued footballer Alan Pulido shortly before midnight Sunday after he was kidnapped on Saturday night, according to a release from the State Government of Tamaulipas. The release said that he was being medically assessed.
The future of Croatia’s two-party coalition government is in doubt after the junior partner of the coalition, MOST, came out in favor of a no-confidence vote that was filed last week by the main opposition party, the Social Democrats, against deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Karamarko.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s office played a significant role in enabling a company then co-owned by Orbán’s son-in-law to win a series of public procurements without real competition, OCCRP partner Direkt36 reported, based on government documents it obtained through a public information request.
Authorities placed seven in custody and another three under house arrest for allegedly fixing two matches in Italy’s second highest football division, according to Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Romanian Senate President Calin Popescu Tariceanu has been indicted for giving false statements at court regarding a massive case of suspected property restitution fraud, which has already involved indictments against a number of government officials, lawyers, businessmen and, most notably, a Romanian Prince.
In the inaugural launch of the World Wildlife Crime Report, The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and its partner organizations have identified that virtually every country plays a role in wildlife trafficking - but not a single one of them is the source of more than 15 percent of global seizures.
US authorities said on Friday that they had extradited a Macedonian citizen to the United States to face charges over selling personal information for financial gain, the US Department of Justice said.
Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom (UK) are calling for a probe into Prince Andrew’s business deals in Kazakhstan after the Daily Mail obtained a set of leaked emails and reported on how the Duke of York was allegedly conducting business with Kazakhstan's elite while acting as roving trade ambassador for the UK.
Authorities extended a preliminary investigation into alleged financial irregularities surrounding presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori, according to media reports based on leaked documents.
Officials from the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs said more than 700 billion rubles (US$ 10.5 billion) were transferred illegally from Russia into offshore accounts in 2015, TASS News Agency reported.