The US Department of Justice has joined a whistle-blower’s lawsuit against California-based engineering firm AECOM, alleging the firm had overcharged the government for its reconstruction efforts after Hurricane Katrina and helped several institutions overestimating damages on their buildings.

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) allegedly busted a “mafia-style” gang which operated within their own ranks and was made of senior officials of the Protective Service who defrauded the police and the army of thousands of dollars.

US authorities arrested and charged a former Hollywood CEO in the latest case of a string of attempts to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) the United States have introduced to help companies deal with the coronavirus crisis.

A Canadian court has ruled that extradition proceedings against Chinese tech giant Huawei’s CFO, brought by US authorities, will resume next week.

Canadian police have brought over 200 criminal charges against employees at several tow truck companies allegedly locked in a deadly war across the Greater Toronto area.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office, EPPO, said it was concerned by Malta’s failure to nominate to the body its three candidates for the country’s representative in the College of Prosecutors which consequently delays the start of the EPPO’s operations.

A ruling party MP in Ukraine has tried to illegally obtain a Romanian passport via a company that facilitates ‘gray scheme’ EU citizenship applications, according toSlidstvo, OCCRP’s Ukrainian member centre.

It was to be a bright research project, led by “a promising young scientist” that involved more than 40 researchers worldwide, but it turned out to be an unusual scam.

“I was infected with Coronavirus,” the listing on darknet site Own Shop read. “I sell my infected blood and saliva. I do this to provide for my family financially.”

Fraudsters have found a way to use the coronavirus pandemic for blackmail, with one phishing scam threatening to ‘infect every member’ of victims’ families with the disease in what experts say is a new take on an old sextortion scheme.

TheCouncil of Europe’s anti-graft body warned on Tuesday that the outbreak of COVID-19 “increases corruption risks,” and issuedguidelines for its 50 member states where to expect fraud, bribery or conflicts of interest.

Long-time rivals Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz signed on Monday a power-sharing deal that allows them to form a new emergency government, ending Israel’s year-long political deadlock but also giving Netanyahu, indicted in three corruption cases, the right to veto the appointment of a new state prosecutor and attorney general.

An Edinburgh judge has sentenced Alistair Greig, owner of Midas Financial Solutions in Scotland, to 14 years in jail for defrauding hundreds of investors out of £13 million (US$16.23 million) through a Ponzi scheme.

As US authorities and manufacturers reveal cases of fraud and price gouging within the booming face mask industry, some bring to light greater problems than just the scams themselves. 

U.S. President Donald Trump replaced the recently appointed inspector general who was tasked with overseeing the country’s US$2.2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, reports said on Tuesday. Critics argue the move is part of an ongoing effort by the Trump administration to discharge and intimidate anyone who might go against its will. 

An international law firm has decried allegations from a Jordanian businessman that its employees subjected him to treatment amounting to torture to obtain a false confession amid a fraud investigation in the United Arab Emirates.

Transparency International (TI) and dozens of civil society groups on Monday called for the protection of whistleblowers during the COVID-19 crisis and urged citizens to make sure governments and corporations are held accountable for their actions during the pandemic.

An information operations group charged the US more than US$120 million to produce pro-US TV and radio ads in Afghanistan and then never broadcasted any, claims a recently unsealed lawsuit.

The United States Department of Justice issued injunctions on Friday barring two telecom carriers from facilitating robocalls that led to people paying millions to fraudsters for solving made-up legal predicaments. 

The EU’s anti-fraud agency has launched an inquiry to combat the sale of black market medical products amid the ongoing spread of the coronavirus pandemic on the continent.