The European Central Bank (ECB) will discontinue printing the 500 Euro bank note due to it being widely used for illicit activities, following a Wednesday decision.

Bulgarian state banker Bilian Balev registered an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands in 2015 to manage his yacht in Monaco.

The co-founder of Liberty Reserve, a digital currency company based in Costa Rica, was sentenced on Friday to 20 years in prison for an “unprecedented” money laundering scheme at a Manhattan federal court.

A former state secretary of Romania’s Ministry of Finance has been found to have offshore companies through the Panama Papers, OCCRP partner RISE Project Romania (RISE) reported in a new investigation.

Sri Lanka said it will start investigating nationals named in releases stemming from the Panama Papers, while Canadian police said they are hoping to get access to the leaked documents as part of a criminal investigation, the Daily Mail and The Globe and Mail reported.

The White House has announced a set of measures aimed at combating financial crimes and strengthening financial transparency, including regulations requiring companies to reveal additional information on their owners to the International Revenue Service.

Portuguese authorities dismantled a transnational criminal group, composed of mainly Russian citizens, which allegedly utilized the football sector and offshore tax havens to launder money since at least 2008.

Swedish prosecutors say they won’t be pressing charges against Swedish-Finnish telco Telia Company (formerly TeliaSonera) for a suspected record bribe in Azerbaijan based on their recently completed investigation.

The National Court of Spain issued arrest warrants for several Russian citizens, including top officials allegedly close to President Vladimir Putin’s circle and linked to the Russian organized crime in Spain.