Former Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan appeared in a Yerevan court on Tuesday to face corruption charges which he claims were politically motivated,RFE/RL reported.

The embezzlement trial of former French presidential candidate Francois Fillon and his wife Peneloppe that was to start on Monday has been postponed because of a lawyers strike.

An appellate department of a Seoul High Court revoked bail for former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and sent him back to prison to serve 17 years for bribery and financial embezzlement, the South KoreanYonhap news agency reported. In 2018, a lower court sentenced him to just 15 years on those charges.

Monaco has not done much in response to recommendations from the Council of Europe’s (COE) anti-corruption body (GRECO) on how to prevent corruption among parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors, according to GRECO’s latestreport, published Monday.

A student who was accused of defamation for broadcasting claims that Cambodian Ministry of Justice officials took up to US$3 million in bribes to hand out passes in magistrate exams was questioned for a whole day at a Phnom Penh court late last week.

Vatican investigators seized documents and computers in a raid this week on the office and house of Monsignor Alberto Perlasca linked to ongoing investigation into financial and real estate investments by the Secretariat of State, according to the Holy See Press Office. 

France is facing a new problem. 

Once it sells the multimillion-euro Paris mansion it seized from Teodorín Obiang, the vice-president of Equatorial Guinea who was convicted for corruption, how will it return the money to the impoverished people of his country? 

Sudanese investigators have interrogated ousted President Omar al-Bashir about possible terrorist financing and money laundering, according to newsreports.

A Conservative minister lobbied Bahraini royal family members to secure a US$5 billion contract with Petrofac, an oilfield services provider that was being investigated by UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) for alleged bribery, corruption and money laundering, the Guardian reported on Monday.

A judge sent on Wednesday a former Detroit Metropolitan Airport official behind bars for 10 years because he fixed contracts for infrastructure projects and pocketed US$6 million in kickbacks, the US Attorney's Office said.

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Parliament has been discussing in Sarajevo on Tuesday the appointment of a politician whom theUS Government has blacklisted for corruption into a commission designed to monitor and supervise the country’s anti-graft agency.

Anti-graft efforts are stagnating or showing signs of backsliding in more than two-thirds of the world’s countries, including the most advanced economies of the G7, Transparency International (TI) warned on Thursday in its2019 Corruption Perception Index (CPI).

The Philippine Justice Department said on Thursday it will charge the former chief police enforcer of the country’s war on drugs with corruption for allegedly protecting officers linked to the narcotics trade, theAgence France Presse reported.

Uzbekistan’sSupreme Court in Tashkent said it put on Wednesday Gulnara Karimova, the eldest daughter of the late Uzbek President Islam Karimov, on trial for extortion, embezzlement of budget funds and money laundering abroad.

Pope Francis urged Christians on Tuesday to stay close to the Holy Spirit because the worldly spirit leaves them unable to separate good from bad and makes them prone to corruption - something the pontiff described as “worse than sin.”

Egyptian authorities said on Saturday that they have arrested the head of the country’s tax agency and that he is suspected of having taken bribes from accountants.

Carrying photos of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and banners that labeled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as “the 2019 most corrupt man in the world,” hundreds of people protested in Valletta against corruption on Sunday, theNewsbook outlet reported.

Israeli Prime Minister BenjaminNetanyahu announced on Wednesday he will seek immunity from corruption charges, effectively delaying his trials until after the elections scheduled for March, when he expects to get a majority coalition to protect him from prosecution.

After having detected contract irregularities and theft in the Sudan's Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Minister Nasreldin Mofreh announced that a special team of investigators will comb the department dealing with endowments and pilgrimages to Mecca, theDabanga news outlet reported on Monday.

Ethiopian Federal Attorney General charged 50 people with corruption and abuse of office in relation with the construction of a dam on the Blue Nile river, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported Sunday.