The European Commission on Wednesday warned of growing corruption and attacks against the media and the judiciary in areport that assessed the rule of law situation ineach member state.

Nearly a year after the Vaticanappointed one of Italy’s top anti-mafia prosecutors to tackle alleged financial wrongdoing in the Holy See, the Council of Europe’s anti-money laundering body, Moneyval, arrived in the Vatican to make its own assessment.

How a family of public officials in Kyrgyzstan amassed vast riches — and is now converting them into influence.

Pakistani authorities on Monday arrested the leader of the country’s opposition on charges of corruption, prompting hundreds of his supporters to protest against the latest arrest of a top opponent by the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan.

Brazilian prosecutors again targeted the family of the country’s PresidentJair Bolsonaro, charging on Monday his son Flávio with embezzlement, money laundering and heading a criminal organization, localO Globo newspaper reported.

The United States has charged two individuals over an alleged bribery scheme relating to contracts for the supply of goods and services to the American military in Iraq.

Although the United States has given no indication that it is presently investigating any of the country’s former presidents, Mexico’s current leader has said he would be willing to extradite one of his predecessors were he asked to do so.

At the behest of the Crown Prince, the King of Saudi Arabia has sacked the commander of the country’s armed forces in Yemen, along with five other officers including the commander’s son, over allegations of corruption, referring them to the country’s anti-graft agency for investigation.

After allegations were made that some of them were involved in a bribery scheme, Mexican President Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador proposed on Monday that a referendum should decide whether former presidents should continue to be protected from prosecution in corruption cases.

Haiti’s financial watchdog has told the country’s senate that since 2008, no fewer than six successive governments have systematically mishandled development projects financed by a Venezuelan aid program.

Russia’s best-known dissident — now fighting for his life in a Siberian hospital after an apparent poisoning — is usually described as an “opposition politician.” But Navalny’s most enduring legacy may be his investigations into the corruption at the heart of the Putin regime.

A Puerto Rican court has indicted a member of the commonwealth’s parliament for allegedly inflating employees' paychecks as part of a discrete, multi-year kickback scheme.

Mexico’s president has said that a recent online video, which allegedly shows public officials sifting through large piles of cash, exposes the “filth of the regime of corruption” under previous administrations.

Striking back against bootleggers, police in India’s northern province of Uttar Pradesh have seized property worth nearly US$1 million for which authorities believe were illegally acquired. 

U.S. authorities raised on Monday charges and imposed financial sanctions and visa restrictions against U.S. and Ugandan nationals for their alleged involvement in a corrupt child adoption scheme.

The president of Mexico has accused his predecessors of allowing the country to become a “narco-state”, as cartel violence continues to rage and allegations of corruption mount against high-profile former officials.

Police officers in Bosnia and Herzegovina turned against some of their colleagues on Wednesday, detaining 17 traffic policemen suspected of abusing their posts and taking bribes to pardon irresponsible drivers.

It was 7:40 a.m. when the chief officer of the MV Duke called Captain Ripusad Prasad in his quarters to say that a boat was following them.

An undated photo of West African pirates. (Credit: U.S. Naval Institute CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Mass protests continued for the third night in a row against Alexander Lukashenko’s landslide victory that gave him his sixth presidential mandate in what thousands of his opponents consider a rigged election.

Prosecutors in Florida accused a former economics minister of Guatemala, of laundering about US$10 million in illegal drug trafficking proceeds and of corruption, a statement from theU.S. Department of Justicesaid on Wednesday.