The overall amount of bribes may be $20 million at minimum though the funds were to be used for investment projects, the paper reported.

Poland’s ex-sports minister Tomasz Lipiec was yesterday sentenced to three and a half years in prison for corruption, as the Euro 2012 host nation continues to battle against graft on and off the pitch.

German authorities have settled money-laundering charges against four banking officials, closing a high-profile corruption investigation that had implicated a former Russian government minister, but that Russian authorities said had failed to show that any Russian laws were broken.

Walking out of his apartment on a recent morning, journalist Rostyslav Shaposhnikov could not have anticipated that he will remember the day – March 24 – for the rest of his life.

This was to have been a big year for FIFA and its head of security, Chris Eaton, the former counterterrorism specialist with Interpol who joined global soccer’s governing body shortly before the 2010 World Cup.

The International Olympic Committee has warned that betting and match-fixing could pose a bigger threat to sports than doping.

An Italian court on Saturday dismissed a corruption case against Silvio Berlusconi, ruling that the statute of limitations had expired on charges that the Italian billionaire allegedly paid his lawyer to give false testimony in the 1990s to shield him from prosecution.

Romanian High Court of Justice magistrates gave former prime minister Adrian Nastase on Monday a 2-year sentence and stripped him of certain rights in a corruption case known locally as the "Quality Trophy" file.

An Italian television program about the transfer of a whistle-blowing Roman Catholic prelate has caused consternation at the Vatican and prompted speculation about a power struggle among senior clerics in the church.

The Croatian anti-corruption bureau has indicted former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and nine others for embezzling money from public firms and institutions.