Azerbaijani authoritiesarrested on Sunday the editor of an independent outlet and a lawyer known for defending journalists, activists and political prisoners, accusing them of bribery. Both have denied the allegations but will remain detained during a four-months-long investigation period.

A former high-ranking official of the Georgian State Security Service accused the former prime minister of personally ordering the 2017 abduction of an Azeri journalist who was then forcefully taken to neighboring Azerbaijan where a court sentenced him to prison in a trial that was seen as unfair.

An unknown man threatened a prominent Azerbaijani journalist with a knife and ordered her to stop reporting about a controversial murder trial she had been covering.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev appointed the chairman of a bank owned by his family members as the new governor to the country’s Central Bank. Opposition leaders see the move as Aliyev’s complete takeover of the country’s banking system.

Land registry documents show that an Azeri lawmaker purchased two luxury London homes for 26.5 million pounds (US$34.5 million) — even as U.K. authorities were investigating whether some of the money he had transferred to his family’s local bank accounts was linked to money laundering.

Leaked documents show two Azerbaijan state companies were set to siphon off $1.7 billion from Shah Deniz 2, which feeds the Southern Gas Corridor to Europe.

Villagers living near BP’s Sangachal terminal say they are suffering from health problems and sleep disruptions due to gas flaring.

Carrying a makeshift headstone with “Independent Media” written on it, a small group of journalists protested on Friday against a new media law, which they see as unconstitutional, further limiting independent journalism and violating human rights.

A former manager at the railway equipment company Bombardier Transportation in Sweden denied on Tuesday charges of paying a US$100 million bribe to win a contract in Azerbaijan.

The Pandora Papers revelations have for a second week prompted responses from those exposed by them, and from governments and civil society groups, who have either completely denied, or belittled the findings, or pledged to take action.

Since The Pandora Papers were unveiled less than 10 days ago, their findings have become the subject of European Commission media briefings, state leaders’ press conferences and government statements, while the world watches on to see what authorities will actually do.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled on Thursday in favor of a group of Bosnians who sued Azerbaijan more than a decade ago for cross-border human trafficking and forced labor.

As head of Azerbaijan’s parliament for 14 years, Oktay Asadov received a modest official salary. So how did his wife, daughters, and former son-in-law afford luxury apartments in London, Moscow, and Dubai?

Prosecutor in Azerbaijan completed on Monday their investigation of one of the country’s former ambassadors whom they accused of embezzling more than 28.3 million euro (US$33.14 million) in state funds and sent his case to the Court of Grave Crimes.

An Azerbaijani couple close to Baku’s political elite agreed on Monday to hand over 4 million pounds ($5.5 million) to British authorities and this way settle an inquiry into the origin of their wealth, which is believed to have entered the U.K. through a money laundering system known as the Azerbaijani Laundromat. 

The couple has agreed to forfeit over £4 million that they had received from the Azerbaijani Laundromat, a massive money laundering system, to the authorities. The properties will not be seized.

U.K. investigators tied Izzat Khanim Javadova, known as Mikaela Jav, and her husband to the Azerbaijani Laundromat, a massive underground money movement system often used by Azerbaijan’s elite. This is the first time a member of the president’s family has been linked to it.

A former manager at the Swedish branch of Bombardier Transportation, a major engineering company, has been indicted on Wednesday on charges of aggravated bribery in what is one of Sweden’s biggest ever corruption scandals.

Politically influential people made up a significant portion of the clients at an offshore bank in the Isle of Man according to a Brookings Institute researcher who analyzed data from a breach published by Distributed Denial of Secrets.

German lawmaker and member of the ruling Christian Democratic Union, Karin Strenz, died on Saturday while traveling privately from Cuba to Germany. Strenz was implicated in the Azerbaijani Laundromat, a EU-wide lobbying and money laundering scheme revealed by OCCRP in 2017.