Two national agencies fighting corruption in Ukraine have named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s former chief of staff as an official suspect in a major graft investigation. They say Zelenskyy is not under suspicion in the case. The agencies announced that Andriy Yermak is suspected in an alleged $10.5 million money-laundering scheme. The move is a step short of formally charging Yermak, who resigned in November. Meanwhile, Zelenskyy met with the CEO of Palantir Technologies as a three-day U.S.-brokered ceasefire that decreased the fighting but failed to stop it altogether ended Monday.

The leader of the Southern Poverty Law Center has pleaded not guilty on behalf of the organization to charges that the civil rights group has defrauded donors by failing to disclose that money would be paid to informants inside extremist groups. The group’s interim president and CEO, Bryan Fair, appeared Thursday in federal court in Montgomery. A grand jury indictment was filed April 21 by the U.S. Justice Department. The charges are an extraordinary strike against the organization, which works to combat discrimination and racism particularly in the Deep South. The SPLC has denied wrongdoing. No individuals are charged in the case.

A former Miami congressman and close friend of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was convicted Friday in connection with a secret $50 million lobbying campaign on behalf of Venezuela’s socialist government during the first Trump administration. Jurors found Republican David Rivera and an associate guilty on all counts, including failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department and conspiracy to commit money laundering as part of its work for former President Nicolás Maduro’s government. The seven-week trial offered a rare glimpse into Miami’s role as a crossroads for foreign influence campaigns aimed at shaping U.S. policy toward Latin America.