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.

Sixteen years ago, Azerbaijani investigative journalist Elmar Huseynov was gunned down in the stairwell of his Baku apartment building. Newly unearthed documents point to a trail of obfuscations and missteps in the official investigation.

Azerbaijan lost three cases in front of the European Court of Human Rights last week and will have to pay 282,850 euro (US$344,122) to the plaintiffs for violating their rights.

Congo-Brazzaville’s repressive government has quietly bought an arsenal from Azerbaijan. Opponents of President Denis Sassou-Nguesso say one recent cache is designed to tighten his grip on the nation.

A court in Milansentenced on Monday former Italian deputy and member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), Luca Volontè, to four years in prison for taking bribes from Azerbaijani politicians to help mute the Europe’s criticism of Baku’s human rights record.

The United Kingdom’s highest court has dismissed an application by the wife of a jailed Azerbaijani banker against a legal order requiring her to disclose how she acquired two high-value properties in the country.

After a Turkish conglomerate won a major contract to build a dam in Azerbaijan, a mysterious $3 million was sent to an offshore firm — which then bought the luxurious London flat where an Azeri official’s son was living.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyevstripped on Monday the country’s ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia,Eldar Hasanov, of his post after authorities arrested the former diplomat last week in Baku, accusing him of embezzlement of budget funds.

Frustration among Azeris has been growing for some time over the forced contributions to the national coronavirus relief fund and payouts of a meagre US$110 for those who have lost their livelihood during the pandemic, but exploded on last week when they heard the government had given half a million dollars to newly-established companies to fund religious events.