Cybercriminals tried to use fake transfer requests to steal more than US$ 1.1 million from a bank in Vietnam, a similar technique to that used to steal millions from the central bank of Bangladesh earlier this year.

As citizens of Belgrade continue to ask why no authorities reacted to their calls for help in the night of April 25, when about 30 masked men armed with baseball bats tore up multiple buildings in Belgrade using diggers and mistreated several locals, the Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic denied allegations that the police officers were ordered to stand down that night, in an interview with N1 Television Thursday.

This week, OCCRP partner re:Baltica published a series of investigations into the business dealings of Uzbekistan’s elite in Latvia with stories of fraud, bribery and attempted assassination.

British authorities seized US$ 22 million on suspicion that a Russian organized crime group was using the futures market to launder money, police said. 

Eligijus Masiulis, the leader of Lithuania’s Liberal Party and a former minister of transport, is under investigation on bribery charges.

Some of the world’s leading economists have signed an open letter to world leaders asserting that tax havens “serve no useful purpose,” ahead of the anti-corruption summit to be held in London tomorrow.

The leader of European football said he plans to resign after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced his suspension from six years to four on Monday. He said that he would continue the fight to clear his name, ESPNFC wrote.

The Brazilian Senate is set to decide on Wednesday if President Dilma Rousseff should go on trial after an earlier call to halt action against her was reversed, the Financial Times (FT) wrote.

Yesterday, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and its partners, including the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), made the Panama Papers and Offshore Leaks database available to the public.

Prosecutors Friday confirmed that Romania's former President, Traian Basescu, is being investigated for money laundering – information he himself had posted on his Facebook page on April 20.