Park Young-June, former vice minister in charge of energy, faces charges of taking money to influence a bid to build nuclear reactors prosecutors announced on Tuesday.

Grameen Bank founder and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus was accused of violating tax exemption rules by Bangladeshi authorities on Tuesday. The allegation is the latest in a long running political and legal battle between Yunus and the government of Bangladesh.

Paraguay's National Antidrug Secretariat (SENAD) detained "Marijuana King" Damian Delvalle Sanabria following a raid on Friday, reports InSight Crime. The capture comes more than two years after Delvalle escaped prison in May 2011.

A Vienna-based company formerly managed by MP Oleksiv Azarov, son of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, granted an undisclosed sum of money to a proposed Ukrainian research center in Kyiv run by Harvard University.

Mexican Federal Police arrested Juarez cartel figure Alberto "Ugly Betty" Carrillo Fuentes, 47, in the western state of Nayarit over the weekend.

The United States Embassy in Baku has reacted to a story in a government connected newspaper that said a reporter’s mother must die and then gave information on where she lived. Calling the article “disgusting”, the Embassy condemned the latest attack on OCCRP/Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) reporter Khadija Ismayilova.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested five members of a suspected people smuggling ring in multiple raids on Thursday, according to The Sydney Morning Herald.

Colombian police announced the arrest of Rafael "Chepe" Alvarez on Monday GlobalPost reports. The leader of "Los Urbanos" was captured in the town of Caceres over the weekend.

Thirty-two individuals including three former police officers were indicted in Bosnia on Wednesday. The suspects are accused of multiple crimes including murder and armed robbery throughout the past decade reports Reuters.

More than 60,000 protesters took to the streets in Manila on Monday, reports Global Post. Protesters were outraged over the misuse of government funds and spurred on by Filipino newspaper Philippine Daily Inquirer's allegations that government officials took nearly two hundred million dollars meant for the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF).