Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ousted from his Liberal Party on Tuesday two former ministers whose accusations of political meddling in a prosecution jeopardized his re-election bid.

Leonardo DiCaprio has made a secret appearance before a US grand jury investigating a multibillion-dollar fraud surrounding a Malaysian government investment fund, according to US media reports.

Former FTSE 100 miner ENRC has demanded a judicial review of a Serious Fraud Office investigation into its alleged criminal activities, its latest tactic in a long-running battle to end the agency’s five-year probe.

Several members of Fifa’s ruling council have called on the football body’s ethics committee to demand the evidence behind allegations that the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid ran a secret campaign to sabotage their rivals for the tournament.

An inquiry into high-level corruption claims made by the murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has found no evidence that the Maltese prime minister's wife was involved in money-laundering.

Mariano Rajoy was struggling to hold Spain's fragile government together as he faced calls for snap elections and the potential loss of a key coalition partner after he was accused of triggering "social alarm" over a corruption scandal.

The Serious Fraud Office is expected to deepen its corruption probe into Petrofac by questioning more members of its top management in connection with the Unaoil scandal. The SFO swooped on Petrofac in May last year, arresting the oil service company’s chief executive Ayman Asfari and chief operating officer Marwan Chedid who were questioned under caution before being released without charge. The FTSE 250 group warned investors that other senior members of the board were expected to be questioned under caution as part of the investigation, causing shares to slump by 3.5pc to 506p. In a statement to the market Petrofac said that directors and other employees at the firm would be interviewed by the SFO either under Section 2 of the Criminal Justice Act or under caution. “No further comment will be made on the basis that this may prejudice an ongoing investigation,” the company said. The investigation into allegations that Petrofac secured lucrative service contracts worth $2bn in Kazakhstan between 2002 and 2009 via a corrupt Monaco-based middleman, Unaoil, has already wiped billions from its market value. Petrofac has denied any wrongdoing in connection to the Unaoil scandal, which has engulfed many other firms within the global oil services industry, but its share price is still almost half what it was prior to the investigation, when its shares traded just below 920p.

The Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal investigation into bribery, corruption and money-laundering concerns at defence company Chemring. The SFO said the investigation relates to the use of “middlemen” by Chemring, and that the company voluntarily reported the concerns to it. Use of intermediaries has become a focus for the SFO recently. It secured a record £671m settlement from Rolls-Royce last year over its use of middlemen to win contracts.