The Ohio State House ousted last week a lawmaker whom the FBI accused of accepting millions of dollars in bribes to pass legislation bailing out two nuclear plants.

Corruption is rising in Croatia, as is the number of people leaving the country and the two trends are connected, says a new report released to the Croatian media this week and shared with OCCRP on Wednesday.

Marián Kočner, a powerful business tycoon, and Alena Zsuzsova, his associate, face a retrial for the 2018 murder of investigative reporter, Jan Kuciak, and his fiancé, Martina Kušnírová. Last September, the court acquitted Kočner and Zsuzsova of masterminding the killing but the Supreme Court of Slovakia reversed this decision on Tuesday.

The very people tasked with clamping down on and regulating Zimbabwe’s illegal gold industry are some of its biggest beneficiaries, according to a recent report by the Southern Africa Resource Watch (SARW).

An independent panel characterized London’s Metropolitan Police as “institutionally corrupt” in a long-awaited report on the 1987 murder of private detective Daniel Morgan, which police reportedly tried to cover up.

Authorities raided a medical research institute in southern France on Monday, as part of an investigation into corruption related to agreements signed with another research facility for services that may have been overpriced while the board presidents of the two institutions were a married couple. 

Almost two-thirds of European Union residents believe corruption is an issue in their respective countries, according to a new report published on Tuesday which calls into question the EU’s image as a “place of integrity”.

The transport business is often hijacked by organized crime – in particular the highly lucrative vehicle-towing industry – which gangs infiltrate across the U.S., Canada, Australia and South Africa through violence, intimidation and corruption, the Global Initiative Against Organized Crime warned.

Saudi authorities detained 136 people – both citizens and expatriates in Saudi Arabia – for their alleged involvement in bribery, abuse of power, and forgery, the country’s anti-graft watchdog said on Sunday.

A group of U.S. lawmakers intend to introduce three bipartisan bills designed to curb kleptocracy and corruption worldwide. They say their proposals close gaps in existing laws concerning sanctions of corrupt individuals, address abuses to investor visa programs and allow visa bans to be imposed on corrupt individuals.

As Israel’s new unity government stands on the precipice of being confirmed as the ruling coalition in the Knesset, things are looking dire for Benjamin Netanyahu, who for the first time in 12 years, stands to lose the powers of the premiership, just as his long-running corruption trial is picking up pace. 

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.

U.S. President Joe Biden is putting global anti-corruption efforts at the center of U.S. foreign policy, according to a new National Security Study Memorandum released Thursday.

A court in Bosnia and Herzegovina sentenced the former head of the country’s Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA BiH) to nine years for his role in a bribery scheme that, according to authorities, deprived the state budget of over US$1 billion over a five-year period.

A former Ecuadorian official who was arrested in April for corruption, killed himself in his jail cell in the capital of Quito where he was waiting for his trial, a government minister said.

After a five year moratorium on logging in Guinea-Bissau, officials are now considering reopening the country’s timber markets, however, according to a recent report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), that may only reward the very same bad actors who prompted the ban in the first place. 

Lawyers from the Turkish city of Izmir requested on Monday authorities to investigate claims made by a mob boss that ministers from the ruling party were involved in various crimes, including drug trafficking and the murder of a journalist.  

Sanctions can help deter corruption, recover misappropriated funds and assist “the seizure, forfeiture and recovery processes” of ill-gotten assets, experts say.

At least US$150 billion has been stolen and smuggled out of Iraq since 2003, the country’s President Barham Salih said on Sunday, declaring that corruption “must stop” and the stolen money must be recovered.

It was painful to watch even though it was fake. For a whole day, a young man wearing a white mask sat at the most frequent spot in Sarajevo’s largest shopping mall and shredded fake 200 convertible mark bills (US$125).