An anti-corruption drive by China’s President Xi Jinping, which last year investigated 51,000 people and punished 30,420 for corruption, has Chinese investment quickly flowing abroad.

A Chinese national accused of stealing trade secrets from US defense contractors was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on Aug. 14. The FBI reports that 49-year-old businessman, Su Bin, and his associates hacked computer systems, stealing confidential information regarding military programs and conspiring to distribute it.

The governor of Texas has been indicted for abusing his power by vetoing funding for a state anti-corruption agency after its leader refused to resign.

A top official at a notorious digital currency service company has pleaded guilty to money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business at the federal court in the Southern District of New York.

The people responsible for cameras that record drivers running red lights have been indicted for bribery and fraud in a scheme to install even more of the traffic lights in Chicago—which now has the highest number of camera traps in the nation.

Eight armed men stole an estimated US$ 10.5 million from an armored Brink’s truck at the Santiago international airport in Chile Tuesday, escaping without a single shot fired, as reported by the In Sight Crime portal.

Michael Pizzi, the suspended mayor of Miami Lakes, Florida, has been acquitted of taking bribes from undercover FBI agents in connection with federal grant applications in the Miami suburb.

The mayor of a town in western Mexico has been charged with homicide and extortion, and is suspected of links to the Knights Templar drug cartel.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has charged three officials of 12 “payday loan” companies with violating state lending laws by charging excessive interest rates—sometimes more than 300 percent--on people desperate for cash.

Five police officers in Delhi are under investigation for demanding bribes in incriminating video and audio clips sent to a new anti-corruption help line.