An independent investigation named at least 20 South African senior police officials as suspects in a massive fraud and collusion case involving allegedly illegal contracts worth millions of dollars awarded to a private forensic software company over the past five years, the Daily Maverick reported.

The US Department of Justice is seeking documents from the world’s largest commodities trader, Glencore, over intermediary companies that it uses in Venezuela, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nigeria, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

In a case that has rocked the college basketball world, a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday handed out a guilty verdict to two Adidas officials and an aspiring NBA agent in connection with their schemes to secretly pay top high school basketball recruits to secure their commitments to Adidas-sponsored college teams, the New York Times reported.

A Hungarian CEO who attempted to bribe his way to government contracts noticed too late that the “officials” he had given US$81,000 only pretended to be working for the government and that the man at the end of the chain lied he was the deputy minister, according to OCCRP partner Atlatszo.

French Gendarmerie arrested earlier this month a high-profile Ukrainian fugitive who had sequestered himself in a Burgundy chateau surrounded by Salvador Dali paintings and a vintage Rolls-Royce Phantom after faking his own death, Europol announced Tuesday on Twitter.

Guatemala’s Former Vice President Roxana Baldetti was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her part in a fraud that saw millions of dollars embezzled from the state budget to “decontaminate” a lake with a fake “cleanup solution,” the BBC reported on Wednesday.

A US federal court ordered two men to disgorge over US$50 million after it found them guilty of tax fraud for selling “inoperable” solar equipment to tens of customers who then cashed in on lucrative tax deductions.

A Florida court sentenced the former chief financial officer of Bankrate Inc. to ten years behind bars for orchestrating an accounting and securities fraud scheme that caused more than US$25 million in shareholder losses, the U.S Department of Justice announced Tuesday.

A federal jury found the former owner of a marble mining company in Afghanistan guilty of defrauding a US. government agency and defaulting on a US$15.8 million loan, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Monday.

The UK joined Finland, Sweden, Ireland, and UNICEF this week in suspending all social welfare aid to Zambia after allegations of widespread fraud and corruption surfaced.

Seven defendants representing a US ambulance company agreed to settle with the government for US$21 million over allegations that they bribed local government officials to secure their business, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Hospice, the Medicare service that provides end-of-life care, has been identifying patients who are not eligible for hospice care, giving families false information about the care they will receive, billing for services not provided, paying physicians for recruiting patients, and charging Medicare millions for services that do not meet requirements, according to a report released Tuesday by theOffice of Inspector General (OIG) at the US Department of Health.

In a scheme dating back to the 1990s, an ex-cop and his organized network of drug traffickers, strip club owners, and psychics rigged the McDonald’s Monopoly game to win almost every prize for 12 years, stealing over US$ 20 million.

A Florida city commissioner turned himself in to the police on Wednesday amid claims that he accepted over $US 20,000 in bribes from a strip club owner in exchange for an extended liquor license, local media reported.

Law enforcement arrested more than 141 individuals across more than 226 airports last week for traveling with criminally acquired airline tickets, Europol reported Tuesday.

Two UK and US hedge funds accuse one of India’s largest real estate developers of defrauding foreign investors out of some US$1.5 billion in a conspiracy involving shadow companies, document dumps, and “astonishing theft,” Bloomberg reported Monday.

State prosecutors said on Thursday that Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was charged with fraud for spending US$100,000 on outside caterers in the couple’s official residence, Reuters reported.

A Swiss lawyer will spend two months in jail after telling British and US authorities that his clients, two Russian oil traders, violated sanctions on Iran, Bloombergreported Wednesday.

Israeli and French authorities arrested four suspected leaders of a crime group responsible for impersonating executives of companies and ordering employees to wire company money to bank accounts owned by the group, Europol reported Monday.

A Vietnamese court is expected to set precedent on Tuesday by determining who will bear financial responsibility in a record-setting fraud trial, Reuters reported Monday.