Credit Suisse, Switzerland’s troubled bank that was recently bought by its rival USB, has been investing in sanctioned entities in China.

Ecuador has declared the Argentinian ambassador to the country persona non grata for allowing a former Ecuadorian minister who found refuge at his Residence in Quito after a court sentenced her for corruption to leave the country, the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairssaid Tuesday.

The days of Olufunmilade Adeyemi as a con artist seemed to have been numbered in 2018 when he was arrested in Ghana and extradited to his native Nigeria to face justice for allegedly stealing tens of thousands of dollars in sales of fictitious property in the suburbs of Lagos.

Having achieved over US$65 billion in global sales in 2021, the arts and antiquities industry is an attractive market for money laundering activity, according to a Financial Action Task Force (FATF) report.

The U.S. State Department has approved the extradition of former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo who is in his home country suspected of bribery linked to a corruption scandal involving Brazilian-based construction company Odebrecht S.A., Peru’s attorney general’s office said on Tuesday.

Law enforcement in Bosnia and Herzegovinadetained 11 people suspected of “organized crime, illegal trade, and money laundering” in connection with the sale of fraudulent university diplomas that were not based on genuine study.

After serving less than two years of his 11-year sentence for corruption, former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev was released and left on Wednesday to Spain for medical treatment although there are still outstanding charges against him.

South African authorities have seized a luxurious yacht from Equatorial Guinea’s Vice President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue after he lost a lawsuit filed by a South African investor who had been arrested at Nguema’s command, local media reported on Sunday.

In the wake of theSuisse Secrets investigation released last year, which uncovered how the bank Credit Suisse had stored the ill-gotten gains of criminals and the corrupt across the world, prosecutors have now launched an investigation, but not into the bank.

Although it slightly improved in 2022, partisanship in the political arena, its blatant uses of gerrymandering, and its inadequate countermeasures against money laundering keep the United States’ global corruption perception ranking close to its historic low, a top official of the global anti-corruption organization Transparency International told OCCRP.

Ethnic divisions preventing Bosnia and Herzegovina from fighting corruption have pushed the country down on the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index (CPI), where it is recording the lowest score in the Western Balkans, the global civil society group driving the anti-graft struggle said Tuesday in its2022 CPI report.

A prominent Bangladeshi politician has come under scrutiny by the nation’s Anti-Corruption Commission following an Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project Investigation of his unreported offshore real estate holdings.

Italian police detained 56 suspected mafiosi and seized more than 200 million euros (US$217.89 million) in assets during an operation that, according to authorities, broke the spine of the country’s most prominent organized crime structure, the Calabria-based ‘Ndrangheta.

Sierra Leone’s auditreport for the year 2021 released last week has unprecedentedly left out the Office of the President, leaving civil society in doubts over the credibility of its findings and increasing suspicion that President Julius Maada Bio is abusing the nation’s wealth for personal enrichment.

Another wave of oppression has befallen the Rohingya people as refugees face violence, corruption, and persecution at the hands of Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn), according to a Human Rights Watch report.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the State Duma on Monday adraft law that would see Russia withdraw from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption (CLCC), a European body dedicated to criminalizing corrupt practices within all of its member states.

President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola launched Tuesday an urgent procedure that would see the immunity of two members waived in light of the recent corruption scandal involving Qatar and Morocco.

The South Korean government announced Tuesday that it had granted a special pardon to former President Lee Myung-bak, annulling the 15 years left on his sentence for corruption.

A court in the Democratic Republic of the Congo acquitted a former presidential advisor who was charged with passive corruption, insults to the head of the state and influence peddling after OCCRPreleased a tape showing him negotiating a corrupt mining deal.

The strongman who ruled Azerbaijan’s remote region of Nakhchivan with an iron fist for the past 27 years resigned abruptly on Wednesday, marking the end of his autocratic and often brutal rule over the secretive exclave.