Corruption

European Union lawmakers voted Monday to dramatically scale back two flagship sustainability rules, narrowing their scope to the bloc’s largest companies after months of pushback from industry, Bloomberg reported. 

Spanish authorities have seized property linked to Nikolai Kolesov, the chief executive of state-owned Russian Helicopters, on suspicion of money laundering, according to an anti-corruption group founded by the late Alexei Navalny. 

The United States has removed former Paraguayan president Horacio Cartes from its sanctions list, a shift that comes amid warmer ties between the Trump administration and President Santiago Peña’s conservative government, Bloomberg reported.

Illegal gold mining has grown into one of the Western Hemisphere’s largest and fastest‑expanding illicit economies, out‑earning narcotics in parts of Colombia and Peru and pushing conflict‑linked gold toward U.S. ports and banks. 

A previously undisclosed report by the Inspector General for the U.S. State Department and officials interviewed by ProPublica allege that former Ambassador to El Salvador Ronald D. Johnson protected Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele from American and Salvadoran law enforcement efforts. 

Georgia’s ex‑Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze has been arrested on charges of money laundering and abuse of power, OCCRP said. 

JPMorgan Chase will pay $330 million to the government of Malaysia to settle claims that it facilitated the processing of $800 million in fraudulent transactions linked to the looting of Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund, 1MDB.