U.S. prosecutors are seeking the seizure of two luxury New York City apartments belonging to former Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold and his family, which they believe were purchased with the proceeds of illegally awarded mining contracts.

The U.S. has imposed sanctions on 11 individuals and entities for aiding financial crimes, drug trafficking, and the exploitation of Syrian resources by the regime of President Bashar Al-Assad.

Amid a wave of violence and a declared war against drug trafficking, the National Police of Ecuador said officers found the mayor of a coastal town and her communications director shot dead inside a vehicle.

A Bishkek court ordered on Wednesday a one-month detention for the former deputy head of the Customs Service, who was extradited the night before from Azerbaijan where he fled after the exposure of his corrupt network that had spread throughout the government.

Authorities in Papua New Guinea are investigating how a China-born businesswoman accused of orchestrating a methamphetamine “black flight” was able to obtain PNG citizenship, the country’s immigration minister said, after OCCRP and partners revealed she appeared to have falsified key parts of her citizenship application.

The EU sanctioned Friday an additional 35 individuals and entities the union believes are linked to the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose poisoning and incarceration at the hands of the Kremlin reinforced the narrative that President Vladimir Putin will not tolerate any challenge whatsoever to his rule.

In a bold legal move, Romanian businessman Jorgan Faff has sued Context.ro, the investigative news outlet and OCCRP member in Romania, claiming that a series of the outlet’s investigation articles regarding a stalled golf course project have damaged his reputation and his finances.

Supporters of opposition leader and Delhi’s chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, who was detained last week over allegations of corruption, said on Monday that the real reason for the apprehension was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fear of him as the only opponent who could defeat him in next month's elections.

Romanian and Spanish authorities have apprehended nine people suspected of the fake promotion of holiday rentals, swindling over a 1,000 unsuspecting victims and netting millions of euro in ill-gotten gains.

International media freedom watchdogs urged Serbian authorities to find and punish the perpetrators of attacks against journalists in the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina where threats, physical assaults, online harassment, and verbal abuse have reached an unprecedented level.