A series of leaked emails to British newspaper The Daily Mail reveals the depth of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair’s advisory relationship to the government of Kazakhstan. Daily Mail reporters estimated Kazakh President Nursultan Nazabayev spent more than £ 20 million (US$ 29.1 million) to secure Blair's services.

An Estonian national who ran an internet fraud scheme that infected more than four million computers worldwide was sentenced yesterday to more than seven years in prison, the US Attorney’s Office in New York said.

The cabinet of embattled Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov has called on Macedonia's opposition, which has accused the President's family of involvement in the Panama Papers scandal, to publish evidence for these accusations, according to the Independent Balkan News Agency.

Spanish police have dismantled two Nigerian sex trafficking rings that exploited more than an estimated 50 women and girls, a Tuesday police statement said.

The global cooperative SWIFT that transfers billions of dollars each day has experienced “a number of recent cyber incidents”, it said yesterday in a notice seen by Reuters.

The trial of a French journalist, who revealed how Luxembourg authorities assisted some of the world's largest multinational corporations in minimizing their tax payments, is to commence on Tuesday at a court in Luxembourg.

US prosecutors publically named Uzbekistan’s first daughter on Thursday, with others, as having ignored a US demand to turn over hundreds of millions of dollars in Swiss bank accounts linked in part to the VimpelCom bribery investigation, Bloomberg said.

Thousands of Moldovan protesters took to the streets on Sunday protesting corruption and calling for early elections, Reuters said. The demonstrations are likely to continue today, according to Doina Ipatii, a reporter from OCCRP partner RISE Moldova.

Soon, it will have been a year since reporters for OCCRP and other organizations took a long, hard look at what is going on inside Azerbaijan’s prison system.

In May of 2013, the government of Azerbaijan, via its State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), injected $750,000 into an obscure Texas-based non-profit, the Assembly of the Friends of Azerbaijan (AFAZ).