Spaniards coping with a double-dip recession, rising unemployment, and spending cuts have started protesting, demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy over another corruption scandal.

German prosecutors have charged the chief executive of Formula One Group, Bernie Ecclestone, with bribery in connection with $44 million he paid a banker in 2006.

Aleksei A. Navalny, Moscow mayoral candidate and Russian opposition leader, was found guilty Thursday of embezzling funds from a state-owned timber company.

An investigation into where €120 million in Dutch aid meant to rebuild Srebrenica after the 1995 massacre actually ended up could result from claims that large amounts of the money were lost to corruption.

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced his refusal to resign on Monday amid increasing allegations of fraud and corruption, calling it “blackmail”.

Brian Charrington, one of Europe’s top 10 most wanted criminals, was arrested in Spain in connection with a transatlantic cocaine-smuggling ring.

Authorities captured Miguel Ángel Treviño Morales, better known under his alias “Z-40,” the leader of one of Mexico’s most violent criminal organizations, the Zetas, near the Texas border on Monday.

Singapore’s central bank has fined 22 financial firms for failing to comply with rules to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing over the past three years.

Romania’s high court convicted Relu Fenechiu of corruption on Friday for illegally selling secondhand electrical equipment as new and sentenced him to five years in jail.

Meng Jianzhe, a senior Chinese Politburo member controls law enforcement and the Chinese court system, has launched an investigation into major British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline for alleged bribery.