While considering laws pushing transparency in financial dealings, Members of the European Parliament have killed reforms which would reveal how they spend money for expenses, now kept under wraps.

The process to replace an anti-corruption chief fired after hunting politicians is being fixed so that Romania’s Justice Minister can clear the way for a hand-picked government candidate, said Bianca Toma, a researcher at the Romania Center for European Policies.

With the Facebook data-breaching Cambridge Analytica scandal still reverberating, British companies are scrambling to set up internal reporting channels to bosses and the media under new EU recommended laws to strengthen whistleblower protection.

Switzerland’s financial oversight agency said Rothschild Bank and a subsidiary violated money laundering rules tied to a financial scandal that brought down Malaysia’s corruption-ridden former government. 

The United Kingdom’s storied police force, Scotland Yard, is reportedly seeing its anti-corruption unit being probed for not investigating allegations of wrongdoing, interfering in investigations and radical discrimination.

Caught up in an embarrassing scandal tainting the Scandinavian image of being clean and transparent, Denmark’s Danske Bank said it would forego profits made on suspicious transactions in its Estonian branch from 2007-15 linked to money laundering.

With his case going on for six years, Malta’s high court said the human rights of restaurant owner Silvio Zammit on charges of seeking a 60-billion euro bribe from a Swedish tobacco company were breached because the country’s Attorney General was endlessly pursuing evidence.

Another World Cup – this one in Russia, which allowed disgraced top officials to attend – is over but with the cheering done, a report warns the Beautiful Game will continue to be The Corrupt Game and the leaders of the sport’s governing body, FIFA, will keep enriching themselves.

With Malta police still unable to find the mastermind behind the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the European Union’s top banking watchdog faulted the country’s anti-money laundering unit for its handling of alleged wrongdoings at Pilatus Bank, key to her look into corruption at the highest level.

Romania’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor Laura Codruta Kovesi, whose office has investigated 60 top-ranking officials in one of the European Union’s most corrupt countries, was fired over misconduct charges critics said were a smokescreen to hide government resistance to fight bribery and graft and to insulate politicians from prosecution.

With Scandinavia’s reputation for being clean coming under scrutiny after some corruption reports, Denmark’s Danske Bank finds itself being looked at anew after reports alleged money laundering may have been far worse than reported.

A former Greek defense minister convicted of stealing scores of millions from contracts in a money-laundering scheme has been released from jail on health grounds for a second time pending another appeal, while a former Mayor of Thessaloniki is going back for embezzling city funds.