The daughters of Azerbaijan’s president agreed to buy a £60m London property using a secret offshore company, in a case potentially carrying “a significant risk of money laundering”, a tribunal has heard.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has declared an "overwhelming victory" in his fight against graft within the ruling Chinese Communist Party, while still vowing that the campaign to weed out deep-seated corruption will continue, state media reported.

A focus on promoting transparency and fighting corruption rather than China-bashing will be more successful in the long run.

Report says hackers detected online protest-sniffing software in Kazakhstan

Three men received prison sentences of between seven and eight years.

Prosecutors made little secret of the fact that the case was pursued on political grounds.