Iranian officials and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei enriched themselves through international aid intended to support Iran's COVID-19 response, according to areport by anti-corruption research service UNISHKA.

A woman who fled to Montenegro last year to avoid a prison sentence for her role in a COVID-19 relief fund scam has been extradited to the United States to serve for fraudulently obtaining more than US$20 million, the Department of Justicesaid Tuesday.

Romanian police released on Wednesday the director of the state-owned weapons factory Romarm after prosecutors accused him of purchasing inadequate machines for the production of protective masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, causing the company to lose nearly US$2 million.

U.S. authorities charged 47 people on Tuesday for their alleged role in a conspiracy to defraud US$250 million from a federally-funded program designed to feed impoverished children during the pandemic.

Chinese authorities arrested more than 230 suspected bank scammersin Henan, China’s third-most populous province,police in Xuchang citysaid on Monday.

Nigerian police arrested 17 people over their alleged involvement in a cyber fraud ring, continuing its crackdown on cybercrime that has been blooming since the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many to work online.

Of all Latin American countries, Venezuela and Bolivia are the worst when it comes to tackling corruption and Guatemala, Mexico and Brazil have again found themselves towards the bottom of the list, a study says.

The former head of a Honduran institution that was tasked with emergency procurement related to the COVID-19 pandemic was sentenced last week to nearly 11 years in prison for purchasing useless mobile hospitals at a highly inflated price.

Italian and Albanian authorities took down Friday an organized crime network suspected of multiple criminal conspiracies including defrauding the Italian national health system, as well as corruption and drug trafficking, Eurojustreported.

The U.S. Secret Service agent overseeing recovery of fraudulently-obtained pandemic relief funds says collaboration between law enforcement agencies, the private sector and academics represents the best chance of retrieving illicit proceeds laundered through cryptocurrency.

Kyrgyz special forces detained the country’s Health Minister Alymkadyr Beishenaliev on Thursday for wasting public money on 2.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that were completely unnecessary.

The German financial services conglomerate Allianz agreed to pay US$6 billion to settle with the U.S. banking authority accusations of fraud within its U.S. asset management unit in connection with the $11 billion collapse of the conglomerate's Structured Alpha funds.

The former head of a Honduran institution that was tasked with emergency procurement related to the COVID-19 pandemic was convicted last week for purchasing useless mobile hospitals at a highly inflated price.

Although he was supposed to be released soon after having served 16 month for illegal firearm possession, the putative leader of a criminal clan known as Group America will remain in a New York jail now for misusing the country’s COVID-19 bailout funds.

A Swiss-based think tank has called for increased international cooperation on cryptocurrency regulation and enforcement to combat black market activity and ‘regulatory arbitrage.’

The latest commodity being trafficked out of Southeast Asia and on to lucrative markets in China is neither wildlife nor drugs or arms but rather brides, according to a new reportby the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC).

The operator of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP,) has settled with the U.S government for facilitating tens of millions of illegal telemarketing calls that, amongst other things, spread COVID-19 disinformation.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, smugglers have shifted their tactics to import fake goods such as toys and cigarettes into the European Union (EU) market, according to a recent publication from Europol.

German and Greek authorities have jointly dismantled an organized human trafficking group that has smuggled people from Greece to Germany and other EU countires, Europol reported.

Spain’s National Police Tuesday dismantled a division of a transnational crime group that sells fake Covid-19 passports throughout the European Union (EU), some of which were listed in the country’s National Vaccination Registry.