UK banks lend over $1bn to scammers
The UK government confirmed that around $1.2 billion of concessional loans for small business made under a COVID-19 emergency lending scheme has already been classified…
El Salvador ex-officials under investigation in $184 mln corruption case
El Salvador authorities have arrested 20 former officials and two local businessmen on charges of embezzling $184 million from the state during the rule of…
Осужденный за рекордную взятку депутат Госдумы РФ Белоусов объявлен в розыск
МВД России объявило в розыск депутата Госдумы РФ Вадима Белоусова, который получил 10 лет колонии за взятку в 3,25 млрд рублей. Эта информация следует из…
Most Ukraine aid is a scam – Members of US Congress
Members of the US Congress Lauren Bobert and Marjorie Taylor Green criticized the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Politicians noted that most of the US…
Saudi billionaire accused of corruption sells business to government
Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has sold his business to the Saudi government for $1.5 billion. Earlier, the Saudi authorities accused the businessman of…
«There have to be no patronages and raiding in country»: Kazakh President addresses business community
If business is ready to work honestly, it needs support and assistance in creating a new model of the national economy of Kazakhstan. President Kassym-Jomart…
Black Lives Matter co-founder accused of nepotism
Black Lives Matter activist and co-founder Patrisse Cullors has been the focus of a corruption scandal. She paid her brother and father of her child…
Guinea-Bissau’s president dissolves parliament, accusing deputies of corruption
Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has dissolved the country’s parliament, accusing members of parliament of corruption and embezzlement of public funds. The head of the…
Former French PM Fillon sentenced to jail for embezzlement
A French appeal court has upheld the conviction of former French Prime Minister Francois Fillon for embezzling public funds and fictitious employment of his wife…
Ex-head of Montenegrin Supreme Court arrested for alleged drug trafficking
Former Chairman of the Supreme Court of Montenegro, Vesna Medenica, was arrested on charges of abuse of office and assistance to a criminal group. Earlier,…
Генпрокуратура требует изъятия имущества 81 собственника
Заместитель Генпрокурора РФ Игорь Ткачев обратился в суд с требованием обратить в доход государства десятки домов, гостиниц, санаториев, клиник и иной недвижимости в городе Кисловодске.…
Romanian ex-minister fleeing sentence caught in Bulgaria
Bulgarian authorities have detained the Romanian former Romanian Minister of Tourism Elena Udrea, who tried to leave for Greece. Earlier, a Romanian court sentenced the…
Ex-manager of largest automobile corporation in US arrested for bribery from South Koreans
Law enforcement agencies in Los Angeles arrested a former manager of General Motors, known as the largest automobile corporation in the United States. He is…
Former Chinese vice governor jailed to 14 years in prison for bribery
A court in China has sentenced Zhang Zhinan, former vice governor of eastern Fujian province, to 14 years in prison for taking bribes and abuse…
Ex-head of Kyrgyz Customs Service pays half a million dollars fine for corruption
Former chairman of Kyrgyzstan’s State Customs Service Adilet Kubanychbekov has paid a 51.2 million soms ($510,000) for state damage. In January, the official has been…
Bulgaria’s former PM detained in corruption case
Prime Minister of Bulgaria Boiko Borisov was arrested during a Bulgarian police operation. Interfax reports with reference to the lawyer Menko Menkov. According to the…
Peru Congress initiates impeachment proceedings against president over corruption
Peruvian President Pedro Castillo admitted his mistakes in governing the country. Congress voted to begin impeachment proceedings against the president on corruption charges. Last December,…
Nazarbayev’s nephew arrested in Kazakhstan
A court in Kazakhstan has arrested businessman Kairat Satybaldy. He will be in custody for two months. Interfax reports. Satybaldy had been detained on Sunday…
Секретарь партии «Единая Россия» Максим Еремеев объявлен в розыск
Полиция объявила в розыск секретаря первичного отделения №10 г. Тюмени партии «Единая Россия» Максима Еремеева. В партии информацию о розыске опровергают, но отмечают, что членство…
Former Czech Prime Minister Babis stripped of immunity amid fraud claims
Czech politicians have voted to strip former Prime Minister Andrej Babis of parliamentary immunity. The ex-politician is suspected of fraud in receiving subsidies from EU…
UK plans new law to combat foreign money laundering
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has introduced the government’s Economic Crime Bill to parliament. The new law will be aimed at combating foreign money laundering.…
Prosecutors leading New York criminal investigation into Trump resign
Two prosecutors who had been leading the district attorney’s criminal investigation into former US President Donald Trump and his Trump Organization have resigned. The district…
Former Croatian economy minister arrested for illegal business subsidies
Croatian construction minister Darko Horvat was arrested as part of a corruption investigation. He is suspected of illegally distributing subsidies for entrepreneurs in 2018, when…
Honduran ex-president accused of facilitating drug smuggling
Honduran police have arrested former President Juan Orlando Hernandez for one month following a request by the United States government for his extradition. In the…
Trump and his children ordered to testify in business fraud case
A New York court has ordered former US President Donald Trump, his son Donald Jr. and daughter Ivanka to answer under oath about the activities…
Albanian parliament extends vetting of judges and prosecutors for corruption
Albanian lawmakers have voted to extend the vetting of judges and prosecutors on links to crime and corruption. Of the 140 lawmakers, 118 voted to…
Italian prosecutors accuse ex-Prime Minister of corruption
The Florence prosecutor’s office requested trial indictment for former Italian Premier Minister Matteo Renzi for alleged illegal political party funding. The Associated Press reports with…
US accuses couple of embezzlement $4.5 billion
US authorities have uncovered the biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft. Law enforcement has arrested a married couple suspected to have laundered the money and seized $3.6 billion.…
British MPs urge to freeze assets of Nazarbayev’s family
Member of the British Parliament Margaret Hodge delivered a report on corruption of family members of Kazakh ex-president Nursultan Nazarbayev, who own multi-million dollar property…
Albanian ex-minister jailed for assisting crime group
Albania’s Anti-Corruption and Organized Crime Court has sentenced former interior minister Saimir Tahiri to three years and four months in prison for abuse of office.…
Saudi Arabia arrests over 230 government staff on charges of corruption
In January 2022, Saudi Arabia’s anti-corruption investigators opened more than 630 criminal corruption cases and arrested more than 230 government officials on charges of bribery,…
Peru’s general secretary of presidential office resigns over corruption chaos
Peru’s general secretary of presidential office, Carlos Jaico Carranza, has resigned due to disorder in the presidential office, which is the scope for corruption. Carranza…
Biggest Pakistani media mogul acquitted of graft charges
A court in Pakistan acquitted the country’s biggest media mogul of corruption charges over a land acquisition three decades ago. International rights activists said the…
UK seizes $7.5 million from Azerbaijani lawmaker
A London court seized the funds of Azerbaijani lawmaker Javanshir Feyziyev in a money laundering case. UK National Crime Agency reports. According to the investigation,…
Australian authorities investigate anti-corruption commission for first time in 30 years
The Queensland Commission on Crime and Corruption in Australia will be investigated by a Commission of Inquiry for the first time in 30 years after…
Trump vows «corruption investigation» against US President Biden
Former US President Donald Trump has vowed to launch a corruption investigation into current leader Joe Biden. Trump made the announcement during a speech to…
Kazakh ex-deputy minister of ecology arrested for corruption
Vice Minister of Ecology, Geology and Natural Resources of Kazakhstan Akhmetzhan Primkulov and Chairman of the Board of Operator ROP LLP Medet Kumargaliev were detained…
South African investigators find $137 million corruption in COVID-19 contracts
South African investigators have uncovered $137 million worth of corruption and fraud in government contracts related to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. According to…
Bribing with prostitutes, meals and hotels. Former US Navy commander pleads guilty
Commander of the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet Stephen Shedd pleaded guilty to accepting bribes from a Singaporean defense contractor. He and eight other high-ranking military…
Head of Kyrgyz Customs Service detained on suspicion of corruption
Employees of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) have detained head of the Customs Service of Kyrgyzstan Adilet Kubanychbekov. He is suspected…
Former BMW top manager charged with corruption
Munich prosecutors have charged a former high-ranking employee of the German automaker BMW with corruption. According to Reuters, the unnamed man has been charged with…
Former head of Kyrgyz government found guilty of corruption
A court in Bishkek found ex-head of the Kyrgyz government Joomart Otorbaev guilty of corruption. According to the press service of the court, he was…
Somali authorities suspend prime minister over alleged corruption
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed suspended the powers of the country’s head of government, Mohamed Huisein Roble. The decree of the head of state is…
Nearly $100 billion stolen from COVID-19 relief programs
Nearly $ 100 billion has been stolen from budget COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. According…
UN conference against corruption ends with declaration to safeguard emergency and crisis response
The ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) ended with the adoption of the Sharm…
Egypt hosts United Nations anticorruption conference
The ninth session of the Conference of the States Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption is being held in Sharm El-Sheikh from 13…
Former US State Department official convicted of embezzling funds from Department of Defense
Former US State Department employee Roudy Pierre-Louis was sentenced to prison on fraud charges. US Department of Justice Press Service reports. From 2015 to August…
Estonian ex-minister accused of embezzlement
Estonia’s former minister of Education and Research and member of Parliament Mailis Reps has been charged with embezzlement of ministry funds for her own needs.…
Ex-head of 2016 Olympics sentenced to 30 years in jail for corruption
Former head of the Brazilian Olympic Committee, Carlos Arthur Nuzman, has been sentenced to 30 years and 11 months in prison for bribing votes to…
Austrian parliament lifts immunity of former chancellor amid corruption probe
Austrian legislators in parliament voted unanimously to revoke the parliamentary immunity of former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz. In October, Kurz resigned as chancellor after prosecutors opened…
Croatian ex-minister of development and EU funds arrested over public procurement fraud
Former government minister Gabrijela Zalac has been arrested on suspicion of fraud and misusing of European Union funds. Euractiv media network reports. The European Public…
Chilean legislators vote to impeach president over mine sale
Chile’s lower house of parliament has voted to impeach President Sebastian Pinera, following the publication of the Pandora Papers about a possible conflict of interests…
APEC ministers pledge to deny safe haven to corrupt officials
The ministers from Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) countries agreed to deny safe haven to corruption offenders, according to a joint statement issued after an…
UK government denies corruption accusations over Conservative Party donors
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government has denied corruption accusations following a new scandal. Earlier, British newspapers reported that major donors of the Conservative Party were…
Saudi Arabia arrests over 170 people in financial fraud case
Saudi authorities have detained more than 170 people as part of an investigation of administrative and financial corruption in government agencies. Saudi Arabia’s Oversight and…
Ecuadorian prosecutors investigate president’s possible tax fraud
Ecuador’s attorney general’s office has launched a preliminary investigation into possible tax violations by president Guillermo Lasso. The investigation began on the initiative of Lasso’s…
Former French leader to testify in polling fraud case
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will have to testify in court in a fraud case. His former aides are accused of misuse of public funds…
Sri Lankan president ordered to investigate his niece’s wealth
Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa ordered a probe into his niece’s assets after information emerged in the Pandora Papers that she and her husband had…
Kurz steps down as Austrian chancellor amid corruption probe
Austria’s Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has stepped down after prosecutors launched a corruption investigation against him. Kurz is suspected of bribery and breach of trust. Kurz…
Austrian Chancellor denies corruption charges
Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said he was not worried about the corruption investigation against him. He denies all charges. In an interview with public television…
Moldova’s prosecutor general detained in corruption case
Prosecutor general of Moldova Alexander Stoianoglo was detained on suspicion of corruption. He is suspected of involvement in the theft of $ 1 billion. Reuters…
Court arrested ex-Prosecutor General of Armenia on corruption charges
A Yerevan court has imprisoned former chairman of the Investigative Committee and ex-Prosecutor General of Armenia Aghvan Hovsepyan for two months. He was detained on…
Ex-head of US-based church stole $ 11 million in church funds
US authorities sentenced former head of the board of the Fifth Church of Christ of Los Angeles to more than 10 years in prison for…
Ex-president of Mauritania to remain jailed on corruption charges
The Supreme Court of Mauritania upheld a judge’s decision to jail former President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz. Investigators continue to investigate the ex-president’s corruption during…
Dubai sets up specialised money laundering court
Dubai has established a specialised court focused on money laundering cases to combat financial crime, within the Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal.…
Scammers offer coronavirus vaccines to different countries
Criminal organizations and individuals contacted authorities in dozens of countries and offered vaccines against coronavirus. Scammers wanted to conclude contracts for millions of dollars. The…
American tried to sell non-existent COVID-19 PPE to officials
A Georgia man in the United States tried to sell personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect against the COVID-19 virus to various medical companies and…
Peru’s Prime Minister and leader of governing party charged with money laundering
Prime Minister of Peru Guido Bellido Ugarte has become a defendant in a money laundering criminal case. Leader of the ruling Free Peru party Vladimir Cerron…
Germany extradited ex-Russian official accused of fraud
Former official of the Chekhov District Administration of the Moscow Region, Igor Gryzhanov, accused of land fraud, was extradited from Germany to Russia. TASS agency…
Peru’s losing presidential candidate faces trial on corruption charges
Keiko Fujimori, who lost the presidential elections in Peru, accused the election results of falsification. Now she faces trial on corruption charges because she has…
France probe into personal wealth of Lebanon’s central bank chief
French anti-corruption judges have taken over the probe into the personal wealth of Lebanon’s central bank chief, Riad Salameh, who has French citizenship. The official…
Ex-member of Israeli parliament sentenced to 10 years in prison for corruption
Former Knesset member and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party Faina Kirshenbaum was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bribery, tax offenses, money laundering,…
Kyrgyz special service employee accused of stealing money from Chinese citizen
Military prosecutor’s office of Kyrgyzstan opened a criminal case for embezzlement of $ 200,000 belonging to a Chinese citizen. Erlan Sultanov, head of the 4th…
Ukraine’s former deputy defence minister arrested for damage to state of $ 17 million
Kiev authorities arrested former deputy minister of defence of Ukraine Igor Pavlovsky in the case of a supply of low-quality military equipment. BBC News Ukraine…
EU to create new anti-money laundering body
The European Union will create a new agency to combat money laundering and new transparency rules for crypto-asset transfers. Reuters reports citing EU documents. The…
Ex-presidents of Kyrgyzstan put on international wanted list
Former presidents of Kyrgyzstan Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev have been put on the international wanted list. Law enforcement agencies are investigating the involvement of…
Former South African president sentenced for contempt of court
South Africa’s former President Jacob Zuma began serving a 15-month prison sentence. He was sentenced to imprisonment for contempt of court. The Guardian reports. According…
Vatican indicts 10 people on embezzlement, extortion and fraud charges
The Vatican’s tribunal has indicted 10 people of embezzlement, extortion, money laundering and fraud in connection with an investment of $ 415 million in a…
Brazilian authorities opened corruption investigation into $ 320 million contract for 20 million doses of vaccine
Brazilian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a contract worth $ 320 million contract for 20 million doses of Covaxin vaccine made by India’s Bharat…
Kyrgyzstan’s Anti-Corruption Service will be liquidated to protect business
The Anti-Corruption Service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) will be liquidated due to the growth of criminal cases against entrepreneurs.…
US House Representative accused in $60 million corruption
The Ohio House Speaker in the United States was removed from office a year after he was accused of accepting $ 60 million in bribes…
Brazilian court dismisses corruption charges against ex-president
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was acquitted by federal court on passive corruption charges due to lack of evidence. According to RT…
China arrests 1,100 suspects over cryptocurrency money laundering
Chinese police have arrested over 1,100 people suspected of using cryptocurrencies to launder money from telephone and Internet scams. Reuters news agency reports, citing China’s…
Swiss bank Julius Baer to pay nearly $ 80 million in FIFA bribery case
Swiss bank Julius Baer has admitted to laundering more than $ 36 million that officials of the International Football Federation (FIFA) and other football organizations…
Ex-mayor of Bishkek detained for corruption
Officers from the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) have detained former mayor of Bishkek Aziz Surakmatov for corruption and illegal enrichment. –…
US authorities accused ex-Las Vegas mayor on corruption charges
Former Las Vegas Mayor Tonita Gurule-Giron has appeared in court on corruption charges, including bid rigging, bribery and abuse of power while in office. Associated…
Former US officials convicted for bribery over cannabis dispensary permit
Two former city officials in Calexico, California, were sentenced to two years in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for permission to open a commercial…
Qatar finance minister arrested on corruption charges
Qatar authorities have arrested finance minister Ali Sherif Al-Emadi on charges of embezzlement and financial fraud. Reuters reported citing state news agency QNA. Qatar prosecutors…
Turkish authorities investigate $ 2 billion crypto scam
Turkish authorities detained 62 people on charges of fraud on the Thodex cryptocurrency exchange. An owner of the exchange fled to Albania, defrauding 400,000 investors…
Automaker Toyota accused of bribery in Thai tax dispute
Subsidiary of Japan motor-vehicle maker Toyota Motor Corp. in Thailand is under investigation on charges of attempting to bribe local tax officials. The Business Times…
Brazil’s Supreme Court annuls corruption conviction against former president
Brazil’s Supreme Court confirmed a decision to annul corruption convictions against former president Lula da Silva. Now he can run in the presidential elections in…
Malaysian ex-PM appeals corruption conviction
A Malaysian court has begun hearing a motion by former prime minister Najib Razak to overturn his conviction in a corruption case involving the looting…
Former Brussels police chief faces corruption charges
The Brussels prosecutor’s office has brought charges of corruption, bribery and money laundering to former chief of the federal judicial police Glenn Audenaert. The Brussels…
Over 80 cars and 20 properties of ex-president’s bodyguard confiscated for corruption
Norman Chisale, head of security for the ex-president of Malawi, faces corruption charges. Authorities seized property belonging to Chisale worth an estimated $ 2.2 million.…
First North Korean national ever extradited to US for money laundering
A national of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been extradited by the Malaysian authorities to the United States to stand trial for…
UK to return nearly $ 6 million laundered by former Nigerian governor
The British government has agreed with the Nigerian authorities to return almost $ 6 million laundered by a former governor of the southern oil producing…
Honduran president accused of taking bribes from drug trafficker
A US prosecutor accused Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez of assisting a drug trafficker smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States. This happened at…
Bishkek financial police chief detained for illegal transfer of $ 700 million
Nurlan Kazabekov, head of the Department of the State Service for Combatting Economic Crimes for Bishkek city, was detained and placed in a pre-trial detention…
Saudi royal guard officers arrested in tender fraud case
Saudi Arabian authorities have arrested three royal guard officers after for awarding tenders tenders totaling more than $ 100 million to companies belonging to them…
Bundestag member accused of lobbying mask supplier with taking bribes
German MP Georg Nüsslein has been charged with taking a bribe of 660,000 euros for lobbying a supplier of medical masks. The Bundestag voted unanimously…
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