Just two percent of companies win 98 percent of all public procurement deals in Bulgaria, according to the head of BORKOR, Bulgaria’s state anti-corruption and organized crime agency.

Microsoft and law enforcement from over 80 countries shut down 1,000 infected computer networks used by a cyber-crime ring suspected of stealing more than $500 million in the past year and a half.

Three members of Britain’s House of Lords were suspended by their parties after undercover journalists allegedly got them to agree to lobby in return for cash.

Alfonso Portillo, a former Guatemalan President, was extradited to the United States and will face trial on charges of conspiring to launder millions of dollars he allegedly embezzled while President.

After eight years of investigations, involving more than 20 prosecutors and 32 environmental groups, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., plead guilty on Tuesday in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Kansas City to federal environmental crimes and civil violations, and will pay over $110 million in fines.

Several individuals have been arrested for their alleged role in a transnational organized crime group responsible for trafficking cocaine from Latin America to Europe, after a coordinated transnational law enforcement operation in the Balkans

The US Attorney’s Office froze the assets of Liberty Reserve, a currency transfer and online payment company, in connection with a $6 billion transnational money laundering scheme connected to organized crime, fraud, computer hacking, child pornography and narcotics trafficking.

Total SA agreed to pay the United States government $398.2 million to settle an ongoing investigation concerning allegations of bribes to win contracts in Iran. The settlement consists of $245.2 million in fines for three violations of the Foreign and Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as the surrender of $153 million in illegal profits to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

The two most infamous gangs in Honduras have agreed to put aside violence and crime in a deal brokered by a Roman Catholic Bishop, in return for “forgiveness” from the government and certain concessions.

Europe’s drug supply landscape is “in flux” as new drugs and routes prevail, according to the 2013 European Drug Report published on Tuesday. The report looks at the continent’s most prevalent drug trends and at the most widely used drugs, including cannabis, cocaine, heroin and other opioids, amphetamines and methamphetamines, and ecstasy.