Kleptik Exclusives

In August 2026, the Trump administration confirmed that the State Department was working with the Department of Homeland Security to identify and revoke B1 and B2 visas held by foreign nationals who entered the United States as temporary vi

Five small Eastern Caribbean states have built one of the world’s most mature markets in citizenship by investment scheme.

On 20 August 2026, the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court imposed the defining criminal judgment in the collapse of China Evergrande Group.

By August 2026, the sanctions campaign against Russia had become one of the largest experiments in economic coercion ever applied to a major G20 economy.

Ukraine entered August 2026 with a political crisis inside the machinery of war.

On 14 July 2026, China’s Communist Party announced the expulsion of Ma Xingrui, one of the most senior civilian officials to fall in President Xi Jinping’s current anti-corruption campaign.

On 13 July 2026, Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court convicted former Member of Parliament Andrii Derkach of treason and illicit enrichment.

On 8 June 2026, Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court approved a guilty-plea agreement with former Supreme Court Chairman Vsevolod Kniaziev.

Alex Nain Saab Moran’s legal history is not one prosecution.

On 10 April 2026, Moscow’s 235th Garrison Military Court sentenced former Russian Deputy Defence Minister Pavel Popov to 19 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

On 6 April 2026, a court in Kursk sentenced former regional governor Alexei Smirnov to 14 years in a maximum-security penal colony.

On 26 March 2026, the Court of First Instance of Sint Maarten sentenced former Minister of Public Housing, Spatial Planning, Environment and Infrastructure Christopher Emmanuel to 29 months of unconditional imprisonment.

On 14 January 2026, Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court approved a plea agreement with former Ministry of Defense official Oleksii Stasiuk.

On 13 January 2026, a Dhaka court ordered the seizure of 330 foreign properties linked by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission to former land minister Saifuzzaman Chowdhury and related persons and entities.

On 10 December 2025, a federal jury in the U.S. Virgin Islands convicted two of the territory’s former senior public officials in a corruption scheme involving government contracting, federal recovery money, private benefits and an attempte

Saint Lucia’s 1 December 2025 general election ended in a landslide for the Saint Lucia Labour Party.

On 25 September 2025, the Paris Criminal Court convicted former French President Nicolas Sarkozy of criminal conspiracy in the long-running case concerning suspected Libyan financing of his successful 2007 presidential campaign.

On 2 September 2025, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Court of Cassation convicted former Justice Minister Constant Mutamba of embezzlement of public funds.

On 1 July 2025, the Moscow City Court sentenced former Russian Deputy Defence Minister Timur Ivanov to 13 years in a penal colony.

The Alfa Nero entered Antigua and Barbuda as a sanctioned asset problem and became a public-governance problem.

On 6 May 2025, the European Parliament voted to waive the parliamentary immunity of German MEP Petr Bystron, allowing German prosecutors to continue criminal proceedings involving allegations that reached directly into one of Europe’s most

On 29 April 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that Malta had breached EU law by establishing and operating an institutionalised investor-citizenship scheme that granted nationality through a transac

On 17 April 2025, the Moscow Garrison Military Court sentenced former lieutenant-general Vadim Shamarin to seven years in a high-security penal colony.

On 31 March 2025, the Paris Criminal Court convicted Marine Le Pen and a network of former European lawmakers and parliamentary assistants in a case involving the misuse of European Parliament funds.

On 13 February 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that Estonian nationals Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turõgin had pleaded guilty in federal court in Seattle to operating a massive cryptocurrency fraud scheme involving HashFlare, a

On 31 January 2025, Switzerland’s Federal Criminal Court convicted commodities trading company Trafigura Beheer BV in a landmark foreign-bribery case concerning the company’s petroleum business in Angola.

On 29 January 2025, former United States Senator Robert Menendez was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison following his conviction in one of the most consequential public-corruption prosecutions involving a sitting U.S. senator in modern

On 27 January 2025, Peken Global Limited, a Seychelles-based company operating the cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin, pleaded guilty in Manhattan federal court to operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business.

On 17 January 2025, former Mozambican Finance Minister Manuel Chang was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to 102 months in prison for his role in a $2 billion international fraud, bribery and money-laundering scheme.

On 17 January 2025, an Accountability Court in Rawalpindi convicted former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Al-Qadir Trust corruption case.

On 12 December 2024, Moldova’s Supreme Court rejected the appeal filed by Ilan Șor’s lawyers and left intact his 15-year prison sentence for large-scale fraud and money laundering.

On 21 October 2024, Peru’s Second National Collegiate Criminal Court sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo Manrique to 20 years and six months in prison in the Southern Interoceanic Highway case.

On 10 October 2024, TD Bank, N.A., then the tenth-largest bank in the United States, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiring to violate the Bank Secrecy Act, fail to file accurate Currency Transaction Reports and launder money.

On 9 October 2024, federal prosecutors in Boston announced what they described as the first criminal charges against financial-services firms for market manipulation and wash trading in the cryptocurrency industry.

On 3 October 2024, Singapore’s High Court sentenced former Transport Minister S. Iswaran to 12 months’ imprisonment.

On 1 October 2024, a federal judge in Miami sentenced former Ecuadorian Comptroller General Carlos Ramón Pólit Faggioni to 10 years in prison and ordered him to forfeit US$16.5 million.

On 20 August 2024, the United States imposed sanctions on former Haitian President Michel Joseph Martelly, accusing one of Haiti’s most powerful former political figures of participating in the infrastructure surrounding international narco

On 5 August 2024, former British Virgin Islands Premier Andrew Alturo Fahie was sentenced in Miami federal court to 135 months in prison after a jury convicted him of cocaine-trafficking and money-laundering conspiracies.

On 26 June 2024, former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 45 years in prison for cocaine-importation and related machine-gun offences.

By June 2024, a commercial and political dispute around Caribbean Galaxy had moved far beyond the Eastern Caribbean.

On 28 May 2024, former Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat appeared in court facing criminal charges arising from one of the most controversial public-private transactions in modern Maltese history: the transfer of three state hospitals to

On 2 February 2024, Panama’s Supreme Court Criminal Chamber rejected the cassation appeal filed on behalf of former President Ricardo Martinelli in the New Business case.

On 25 January 2024, former international law-firm partner Mark S. Scott was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 10 years in prison for laundering approximately $400 million in proceeds from the OneCoin fraud scheme.

On 12 January 2024, the Hanoi People’s Court sentenced 38 defendants in the central Viet A COVID-19 test-kit corruption case.

On 21 November 2023, Binance Holdings Limited, operator of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty in the United States to criminal offences involving anti-money-laundering controls, unlicensed money transmission and san

On 22 September 2023, federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment against sitting United States Senator Robert Menendez, his wife Nadine Menendez, and New Jersey businessmen Wael Hana, Jose Uribe and Fred Daibes.

On 21 July 2023, Southwark Crown Court ordered former Delta State governor James Onanefe Ibori to pay £101,514,315.21 under the United Kingdom’s confiscation regime.

On 21 March 2023, U.S. prosecutors announced the extradition from Bulgaria of Irina Dilkinska, described as OneCoin’s former Head of Legal and Compliance.

On 2 March 2023, Swedish telecommunications multinational Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson agreed to plead guilty to U.S. criminal charges previously deferred under a 2019 resolution and to pay an additional $206,728,848 criminal penalty.

On 22 December 2022, Samuel Bankman-Fried, founder and former chief executive of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrived in the United States following extradition from The Bahamas.

On 9 December 2022, Belgian investigators launched raids in connection with what became known globally as Qatargate.

On 7 December 2022, Guatemala’s High-Risk Court B convicted former President Otto Pérez Molina and former Vice President Roxana Baldetti in the La Línea customs-corruption case.

On 23 September 2022, the Changchun Intermediate People’s Court sentenced former Vice Minister of Public Security Sun Lijun to death with a two-year reprieve for bribery.

On 23 August 2022, Malaysia’s Federal Court dismissed former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s final appeal in the SRC International case.

On 22 June 2022, Chief Justice Raymond Zondo delivered the final parts of South Africa’s Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector.

On 8 June 2022, the United Kingdom formally published the report of the British Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry, an extraordinary examination

On 28 April 2022, Andrew Alturo Fahie, then Premier and Minister of Finance of the British Virgin Islands, was arrested in Miami by U.S. authorities.

On 7 September 2021, the Supreme Court of the Netherlands rejected the final challenge to an asset-confiscation order against former Curaçao Prime Minister Gerrit Schotte.

On 28 July 2021, France’s Court of Cassation rejected the final appeal of Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, vice president of Equatorial Guinea and son of President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo.

On 14 January 2021, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld a 20-year prison sentence for former President Park Geun-hye, closing the central criminal case arising from the corruption scandal that had already removed her from office.