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Labour peer tells Council of Europe inquiry failure to implement legal protections still putting journalists at risk

Armenian authorities released video footage on Wednesday showing seized valuables, including paintings, firearms, medals, and jewelry, following a search at the home of former Finance Minister Gagik Khachatryan as part of an expanding corruption investigation.

Singapore has announced a dramatic one-off pay rise for government ministers including Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, already the highest-paid head of government in the world, despite domestic disapproval of politicians’ high salaries.

Swiss federal court found the former head of the Swiss Bankers Association guilty of paying 82.3 million Swiss francs to a senior Kuwaiti official between 2000 and 2012.

Police interrogation recordings released by the Times of Malta show businessman Yorgen Fenech admitted to initially greenlighting the 2017 assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. He said he then retracted his approval. Fenech was acquitted last week after a two-month trial.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov, who turned out to be a billionaire and owner of a timber business, was found to have interesting items of expenditure.

This is the moment a woman pretending to be a lawyer passes drugs to a lag after smuggling them into prison by hiding them in her bra.

A senior lawmaker revealed plans for pre-approval contract oversight after court convictions exposed widespread bribery and illicit enrichment in public electricity deals.

Businessman Yorgen Fenech, heir to one of Malta’s largest business empires, has been found not guilty on charges of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

President Donald Trump has called the deal granting the US control of strategic Venezuelan oil fields "the biggest in history".

Russian businesswoman asks FSB and Kremlin to probe how a deputy foreign minister funded a timber empire and a private helicopter

Yorgen Fenech pleaded not guilty to charges of complicity and criminal association in the 2017 assassination of leading Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

South Africa’s Hawks arrested a 37-year-old man in an investigation into corruption, procurement fraud and money laundering involving 635 million rand ($37 million) at Tembisa Hospital.

The family of controversial Vologda Governor Georgy Filimonov owns an estate in Moscow’s elite Rublevka district, although the property is registered in the name of one of his former students and close associates. The family also holds a lease on a large plot of land next to the estate.

A Malaysian court charged former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Thursday with failing to disclose his assets to the country’s anti-graft agency.

Former President Robert Kocharyan has been placed in pre-trial detention for a period of two months. On Tuesday,Kocharyan, his son and four other individuals were arrested on charges of large-scale corruption during his time in office.

A Pacific island’s president bypassed an official selection process when he chose an Indian company to reopen a multi-billion dollar mine. He told OCCRP the firm’s managing director offered to pay for his wife’s kidney transplant but insisted it had “nothing to do” with the deal.

The investigation by the Police Ombudsman found he had also failed to disclose multiple conflicts of interest, intimidated a former partner, attempted to falsify evidence and asked a colleague to lie

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Armenia’s former President Robert Kocharyan and his eldest son, Sedrak Kocharyan, were detained Tuesday in a sweeping corruption investigation, less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan stood in parliament and publicly challenged the source of the Kocharyan family’s wealth.

"Price tags" for investigating criminal cases have been established in the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania: this "novelty" was introduced by Justice Lieutenant Colonel Kazbek Boliev, who heads the control and investigative department.

In recent years, the media has repeatedly covered high-profile anti-corruption cases — sometimes objectively and based on verified facts, and at other times in an openly manipulative manner.

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