Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

Manuel Baldizon, a former Guatemalan presidential candidate, was detained at Miami International Airport Sunday on an Interpol arrest warrant issued following the filing of graft charges in his home country, reports the Miami Herald.

Tens of thousands of Romanians braved heavy snow in Buchareston Saturday to protest bills passed by parliament seen as weakening anti-corruption efforts.

Privatbank, Ukraine’s biggest lender, lost at least US $5.5 billion during a decade of systemic corruption, an investigation by corporate consultants Kroll revealed on Tuesday.

Prosecutors in Panama are investigating a network of more than 30 people including former high-level officials alleged to have taken bribes worth US$40 million between 2011 and 2012 for public works projects, Attorney General Kenia Porcell told Reuters on Monday.

Protesters in Guatemala demanding the resignation of President Jimmy Morales and over half of the Congress over alleged corruption have been met with violent repression by military, state, and private police, including heavily armed riot unit, Kaibiles, reports Telesur.

Thousands of Israelis took to the streets of Tel Aviv this weekend for the eighth consecutive week to protest corruption and to pressure Benjamin Netanyahu to resign as prime minister, the Times of Israel reported.

Facing accusations of corruption, a former Romanian mayor left the country just before New Year’s, taking refuge in Madagascar.

The Mantasaly resort. (Mantasaly.com)

The nationalist party that governed Catalonia for most of the post-Franco era has been ordered to repay €6.6 million after being found guilty of running a kickbacks-for-contracts scheme.

The Zambian President has vowed to fire corrupt ministers as he apparently seeks to deflect criticism from his increasingly dictatorial rule.

Saudi Arabia is to seek the extradition of nationals abroad believed to have been involved in corruption, as the kingdom continues its unique anti-graft purge, Sabq reported on Thursday.

 Perceived corruption in the public service may have hampered Australia's GDP by as much as US$ 5.69 billion, or 4%, since 2012, estimates a study released on Wednesday by The Australia Institute, one of the country’s major think tanks.

Jacob Zuma, the outgoing South African President, established a long-awaited commission of inquiry on Tuesday to investigate allegations of private interests having steered his government’s policy.

The Hanoi People’s Court began proceedings in a massive and politically-charged anti-corruption trial on Monday, making Dinh La Thang the first politburo official to face Vietnamese prosecutors in decades.

The trial of three former football officials suspected of bribery ended Thursday in a Brooklyn courtroom, concluding a month of lively events surrounding the case such as throat-slitting gestures and a sleepy juror, reported The New York Times.

A court sentenced Ecuadoran Vice President Jorge Glas to six years in prison on Wednesday for receiving bribes from Odebrecht—a Brazilian construction company tangled in a high-level corruption scandal—in exchange for government contracts.

Thousands protested in Ukraine on Sunday demanding the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko and the release of Georgian ex-leader Mikheil Saakashvili from detention, Reuters reported.

A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Monday declared the country’s Finance Minister an absconder after he repeatedly failed to appear before judges in a graft case associated to the Panama Papers leaks.

Around 20,000 Israelis gathered in an upscale Tel Aviv neighborhood Saturday night to protest government corruption and an impending bill in the Israeli Knesset, reported Reuters and Israeli media.

Iszak Photo, Wikipedia, by Civertan CC BY-SA 3.0

Hungarian authorities indicted Jozsef Mondok, the mayor of Iszak and member of the ruling conservative party FIDESZ, with financial fraud and forgery of documents on Friday, accusing him of using EU funds to build himself two hunting lodges.

Saudi prince Miteb bin Abdullah, former contender for the throne, paid more than US$ 1 billion to buy his way out of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Riyadh where he was being held as a corruption suspect, the BBC said Wednesday.