Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape said Sunday he had ordered a government probe after an OCCRP investigation revealed questionable offshore payments apparently linked to top officials at the country’s state ports company.

A court in Belarus sent on Friday Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights activist Ales Bialiatski behind bars for 10 years for recording human rights breaches in his country, an activity qualified by the court as organized crime, the Human Rights Center Viasna (Spring) announced.

A woman who fled to Montenegro last year to avoid a prison sentence for her role in a COVID-19 relief fund scam has been extradited to the United States to serve for fraudulently obtaining more than US$20 million, the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced Wednesday that it had sanctioned three entities and two individuals for illicitly generating revenue in support of the North Korean government.

A grand jury indicted him for interfering with the 2016 U.S. election, sanctioned his brutal private military force Wagner Group for atrocities committed in Africa and Ukraine and blacklisted several international companies linked to him.

Two months after the eruption of a corruption scandal involving several members of the European Parliament (MEP), the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) said that it had confiscated more than 170,000 euros (US$181,323) from an Italian MEP as part of a fraud probe.

A Russian court Tuesday fined the Wikimedia Foundation two million roubles (US$27,000) for spreading ‘misinformation’ after Wikipedia refused to delete information pertaining to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Lithuania seized Belarusian fertilizers worth millions of euros and tightened its control measures along the border after two OCCRP member centers exposed a blunt but efficient scheme that saw sanctioned companies export their products to the EU.

The U.S. Department of Justice filed two separate cases against a Russian oligarch, in its latest efforts to disrupt money laundering and smuggling networks which support the Russian regime’s war in Ukraine.

Switzerland’s parliament decided Monday to launch a probe into its banking secrecy law, after the country came under international criticism for having criminalized the disclosure of information concerning the country’s banking sector.