Banks are now reviewing whether they complied with bribery and money-laundering laws when they processed allegedly illegal payments linked to a huge corruption scandal at FIFA.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) has voted to sack its president Nikolai Tolstykh.

Bosnian authorities have arrested seven people suspected of involvement in organized crime offences while working for, or doing business with, the country's largest pharmaceutical company, Bosnalijek.

A representative of Azerbaijan’s President Aliyev has responded to OCCRP’s latest investigation, calling it a part of a “black public relations” campaign against the oil-rich Caucasus nation.

TeliaSonera chairman Marie Ehrling. Pic: Anders Wiklund/TT(TT news agency, Sweden)

It was the previous management of Swedish telecoms giant TeliaSonera that entered an allegedly corrupt deal in Azerbaijan in which companies close to the president are thought to have walked off with hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes.

 Marie Ehrling, chairman of TeliaSonera. Photo: Nordea Bank(TT news agency, Sweden)

After revelations of Swedish telecom giant TeliaSonera’s suspected involvement in a record-sized bribery scheme in Azerbaijan, demands grew in Sweden for the company to release what it knows of the controversial business deals in Eurasia.

Swiss authorities arrested seven high-level FIFA officials at a luxury hotel in Zurich, Switzerland, in a dawn raid this morning.

OCCRP journalist Stevan Dojčinović has been detained for 20 hours in a Moscow airport without explanation, deported, and banned from entering Russia until 2020.

Italy has passed a law that aims to tackle corruption, Reuters reports.

The European Parliament has passed the fourth anti-money laundering directive (AMLD4), a law that will oblige European Union (EU) member states to keep central registers of company ownership accessible both to authorities and the public.