Govt to seize 12 of Yingluck’s bank accounts
This material belongs to: The Nation. First civil liability action taken over rice-pledging row. TWELVE of Yingluck Shinawatra’s bank accounts will be seized by the…
Hand it to de Blasio: He keeps his corruption consistent
This material belongs to: New York Post. Say this for Mayor de Blasio’s pay-to-play scandals: At least they follow a regular pattern. The latest dirt…
Right to Education: CAG’s damning findings confirm it encouraged corruption and is ineffective
This material belongs to: First Post. The evidence that the noble-sounding Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, popularly known at the…
Senate approves Bill for single anti-corruption agency
This material belongs to: Jamaica Observer. The Senate has approved the Integrity Commission Bill, paving the way for the establishment of a single anti-corruption unit to…
Alandale Rail bosses jailed for Crossrail corruption
This material belongs to: Construction Enquirer. Four men have been jailed for being involved in corrupt payments to secure work on the Farringdon Station upgrade for…
Police take anti-corruption pledge
This material belongs to: The Star. Taking the corruption-free pledge will put an end to criticism of the police force, says Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)…
DR Congo loses $750m in mining revenues to corruption
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. Global Witness says at least $750m paid to Congo‘s tax bodies and state mining company disappeared in 2013-2015. The Democratic…
Malaysian authorities has launched a TV series about corruption
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Fantasy Film Sdn Bhd will be joining hands to produce a 13-episode drama series to raise awareness on the…
Tunisian Premier Seeks to Restore Trust With Anti-Corruption Push
This material belongs to: US News. Tunisia‘s prime minister vowed on Thursday to push ahead with a war against corruption to restore trust in the…
South African Civil Organisations protest in light of investigation into Guptas
This material belongs to: ENCA. Civil organisations to reveal anti-corruption plans Civil society organisations will reveal their plans to fight corruption. On Tuesday, nearly a…
ACT corruption body hearings should be secret, inquiry hears
This material belongs to: The Canberra Times. Findings by an ACT corruption watchdog could remain secret until if or when the matter comes before a…
Italy Rome Corruption
This material belongs to: The Gazette. A defendant sticks his arm out of the cage in the bunker court of the Rebibbia prison during the…
After Lula’s Conviction, A Typology of Presidential Corruption
This material belongs to: InSight Crime. On the surface, former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva‘s 9-year sentence for corruption seems reminiscent of numerous…
Possible Wimbledon match-fixing under investigation by tennis anti-corruption body
This material belongs to: Washington Post. Three Wimbledon matches from this year’s Grand Slam, including one from the main draw, are under investigation for potential…
Queensland premier stands down energy minister after corruption investigation
This material belongs to: The Guardian. The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has stood down the state’s energy minister, Mark Bailey, after a damning investigation by the corruption…
Chinese Authorities Charge 210,000 Officials With Corruption This Year
This material belongs to: Sputnik News. Chinese authorities punished more than 200 thousands officials for corruption from the beginning of this year, the Communist Party’s…
Brazil freezes accounts of ex-President Silva in graft case
This material belongs to: The Gazette. Brazil’s central bank has frozen four bank accounts belonging to ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva due to his…
Swimming hit by corruption charges
This material belongs to: RFI. Swimming’s governing body Fina has been hit by a commissions scandal days before its presidential election and the start of…
Corruption fighters create new coalition
This material belongs to: Mexico News Daily. Mexico’s National Anti-Corruption System (SNA) goes into force tomorrow but a prosecutor to lead it and special corruption-fighting…
Civil Society Coalition Calls for Separate Independent Anti-Corruption Body
This material belongs to: The Star. A coalition of civil societies has called for the formation of an independent body to tackle issues of corruption…
Vatican hospital corruption trial starts with setbacks for defense
This material belongs to: Reuters. Two men who used to run a Vatican-owned children’s hospital were put on trial on Tuesday, accused of diverting nearly…
Army Generals Detained In Anti-Corruption Campaign
This material belongs to: Tolo News. The Attorney General’s Office said the seven officials detained by police are accused of embezzling at least 1.5 million…
Thyssenkrupp finds no signs of corruption in Israel deal
This material belongs to: Reuters. German industrial group Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) has not found any evidence of corruption in its handling of a $2 billion contract…
Spain FA boss Villar and son arrested in corruption investigation
This material belongs to: ESPN. Spanish FA president Angel Maria Villar and his son, former CONMEBOL executive Gorka Villar, and three other men have been…
Who is Ty Cobb? The top corruption lawyer just hired by Donald Trump
This material belongs to: Independent. The experienced lawyer – with a controversial sporting relative – will be working as a White House employee. The White House…
Guatemala: state of emergency, American Mobil Probe and Mexican ex-Governor’s extradition. Everything points to corruption
This Tuesday, the 18th of July 2017 the Guatemalan authorities declared state of emergency on all roads of the country. According to the President of Guatemala…
Corruption in U.S. Is An Old Story
This material belongs to: Telesur.Net. One also remembers what the hacking did — it exposed the Democratic establishment as thoroughly corrupt — so dirty it…
Registrar of Lands under investigation for corruption
This material belongs to: Turks and Caicos Weekly News. THE INTEGRITY Commission is currently engaged in an investigation regarding alleged acts of corruption committed by…
Tens of Thousands Protest Corruption in Dominican Republic
This material belongs to: The Wire. Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the capital of the Dominican Republic on Sunday in the biggest demonstration of…
EFCC arraigns former Enugu State Chief Judge for ‘corruption’
This material belongs to: Premium Times. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Friday arraigned a former Enugu State Chief Judge, Innocent Umezuluike, before…
House panel rejects corruption claim, boosting Brazil leader
This material belongs to: The Washington Post. Brazil’s President Michel Temer arrives for a ceremony to sign a controversial labor reform into law at Planalto…
Peru’s ex-President Humala jailed for up to 18 months before trial
This material belongs to: Reuters. Peru’s former President Ollanta Humala and his wife turned themselves in to authorities late on Thursday after a judge ordered…
Sheldon Silver’s 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned
This material belongs to: The New York Times. A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York…
ACB report on no corruption in Mumbai traffic department an ‘eyewash’: HC
This material belongs to: Hindustan Times. Mumbai city news: The ACB’s probe report was implausible because they themselves had unpleasant experiences on past occasions with the city…
Latvian Bank Fined €80 million for Money Laundering, Will Appeal
This material belongs to: OCCRP. One of the biggest Latvian banks has announced it will appeal last week’s French court ruling by which it has…
US Art Retailer to Pay US$ 3 Million Fine for Smuggling Ancient Iraqi Artifacts
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Hobby Lobby, a US arts-and-crafts retailer, has agreed to pay US$ 3 million and forfeit Iraqi relics it smuggled into the US under false customs declarations, the US Department of…
Ex-Brazil President Lula sentenced to nearly 10 years for corruption
This material belongs to: Reuters. Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a top contender to win next year’s presidential election, was convicted on…
Russian authorities developed a new effective mechanism of public control
In the beginning of 2017 chief of Federal Office of Alcohol Market Regulation Igor Chuyan announced that his office is ready for cooperation with civil…
Corruption, Economy, Reforms Dominate JCBM Agenda
This material belongs to: Tolo News. Representatives from 29 countries and donor organizations attended the meeting and were briefed on a number of issues involving…
Corruption Crushes Pakistani Stocks, And That’s Just The Beginning
This material belongs to: Forbes. Allegations that corruption is reaching to the highest level of the Sharif government crushed Pakistani stocks on Tuesday. The KSE 100 dropped 2153…
Palace: Duterte ‘admission’ of corruption said in jest, obviously
This material belongs to: Phil Star. President Rodrigo Duterte was just joking when he admitted to having committed corruption, Malacañang said Tuesday as it chided…
Trillanes: Duterte’s corruption ‘admission’ ground for ombudsman probe
This material belongs to: PhilStar Global. Sen. Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV on Monday pushed for the Office of the Ombudsman’s investigation against President Rodrigo Duterte…
Division Threatens New Anti-corruption Policy
This material belongs to: This Day. The disagreement within the executive will make the implementation of the new anti-corruption policy difficult, writes Tobi Soniyi On…
Corruption Case…Corrupt
This material belongs to: Legal Reader. Sometimes corrupt politicians feel more at ease in engaging in illegal transactions after crossing borders, supposedly away from adoring…
Brazilian construction firm UTC fined 175 mln USD for corruption
This material belongs to: Xinhua.net. Brazilian construction engineering company, UTC Engenharia S.A., one of the country’s largest, will pay 574 million reais (175 million U.S.…
Microsoft’s default font is at the center of a government corruption case
This material belongs to: thenextweb.com. After creating a font in 2004, its creators probably never thought it’d be used as evidence in a government corruption…
Tillerson: U.S. wants to see effective anti-corruption reform in Ukraine
This material belongs to: Interfax Ukraine. The United States wants to see anti-corruption reforms being implemented effectively in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson…
The results of the meeting G20: the fight against corruption continues
In the outcome document adopted by the leaders of the countries participating in the G20 international summit in Hamburg, there is a separate paragraph dedicated…
PTI chief covering up corruption in KP: Marriyum
This material belongs to: The Nation. Minister of State for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Marriyum Aurangzeb reacting to Imran’s tirade against the PML-N government…
The Pope, a £50m jet, the oligarch and the head of FIFA’s frantic fight
This material belongs to: Daily Mail. It was the curious case of The Pope, a Russian oligarch and the FIFA president charged with cleaning up…
Brazilians questioning whether big probe will end corruption
This material belongs to: ABC News. For three years, Brazilians have become used to waking up to images of top politicians or captains of industry…
Corruption lawsuit targets AoT, King Power
This material belongs to: Bangkok Post. A lawsuit has been filed against 18 executives and officials of Airports of Thailand (AoT) and King Power Group,…
International Center Launched to Combat “Global Scourge” of Grand Corruption
This material belongs to: Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. A new multinational effort was launched Wednesday to tackle grand corruption, a criminal category that…
Brazil’s Temer hurries defense against corruption charge
This material belongs to: ABC News. Embattled Brazilian President Michel Temer quickly presented his legal defense against corruption allegations to lawmakers on Wednesday, a move seen as…
Romania president backs anti-graft prosecutor amid criticism
Romania’s president has backed the chief anti-corruption prosecutor after critics sought to get her fired amid a growing scandal over the country’s anti-graft drive.President Klaus…
Great Britain: Fighting corruption since XIIIth cenruty
Britain had been fighting corruption for centuries. The first audit of London City dates back to 1200 and even then the corrupted couldn’t buy the…
Uhuru hands over ambulances bought with recovered corruption money to counties
This material belongs to: Standard Digital. President Uhuru Kenyatta yesterday handed over seven ambulances to counties. The ambulances were purchased with money recovered from a…
Corruption is the root cause of separatist agitations – Magu
The acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has identified corruption as the root cause of separatist agitations and militancy in…
Corruption in Mexico Drives Local Companies to Budget for Bribery Costs
This material belongs to: Panam Post. The first National Survey of Regulatory Quality and Governmental Impact on Enterprises revealed that in 2016 businesses and companies…
Spain-Royalty-Corruption story
This material belongs to: Daily Mail. In a July 3 story about an appeal of King Felipe’s brother-in-law’s sentence in a corruption case, The Associated…
Push to curb ICAC’s power to make corruption findings
This material belongs to: The Sydney Morning Herald. The outgoing acting inspector of NSW‘s anti-graft watchdog has recommended winding back the agency’s ability to label people “corrupt” because he…
South Africa: DA Files Papers to Have Zuma’s Appeal Against Corruption Charges Dismissed
This material belongs to: News24. The Democratic Alliance has filed papers asking the Supreme Court of Appeal to dismiss President Jacob Zuma and the National…
Police to probe 14 more temples for corruption next week
This material belongs to: Pattaya Mail. Police handling the state temple corruption case will inspect 14 more sites next week in Bangkok and the provinces…
Ethics watchdog at Justice Department resigns over Trump’s corruption
This material belongs to: Daily Kos. A former federal prosecutor and veteran ethics officer at the Department of Justice left her job in June because…
Brazilian leader Michel Temer will be going to G20 summit
On Monday 3d of July 2017 the Brazilian administration announced that president Michel Temer will be going to G20 summit that this year is happening on the…
Corruption scandal in South Korea: The story
The biggest corruption scandal in South Korean history unfolded during 2016 and resulted in Park Geun-hey being impeached in December. On March 10, 2017 Supreme Court…
History will exonerate ‘victim’ FIFA, Blatter claims
This material belongs to: Goal. Despite being rocked by a wide-reaching corruption scandal, the world governing body itself is not to blame, according to its…
Over 100 arrested in Nigerian anti-corruption raid
This material belongs to: ENCA.com. Nigerian anti-corruption agencies have recorded more than 100 convictions on economic and financial crimes since the beginning of the year. Chairman of…
GST to end ‘inspector raj’, weed out black money and corruption: Nitin Gadkari
This material belongs to: First Post. The rollout of the much-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime will end ‘inspector raj’, weed out black money from…
CEO of Filipino state company Clark Development Corporation denies involvement in corruption
On 29th of June 2017 Noel F. Manankil, head of an economy zone in Pampanga, a Filipino province, denied corruption allegations following the country’s president Rodrigo Duterte threat to fire Manankil…
History of corruption in Philadelphia politics
This material belongs to: 6abc Action News. From the days of the ABSCAM scandal of the late 1970s to the conviction of the city’s most…
Light On Corruption:’Fish Rots From The Head Down’
This material belongs to: The Gleaner. You live in a society where everybody steals. Do you choose to steal? The probability that you will be…
Brazilian president Temer is not going to G20 summit
According to the official sources and El Periodico the Brazilian president Michel Temer refused to participate in the upcoming summit of G20, which this year will be held…
Prince William and David Cameron implicated in FIFA corruption scandals
The Duke of Cambridge and former UK PM David Cameron were implicated in FIFA corruption scandal following the leak of some 430 pages of former FIFA’s…
39 IAS officers under investigation for alleged corruption
The Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) began processing as many as 68 governmental officials, including 39 officers of Indian Administrative Service (IAS) and 29 officers of Central…
Papua New Guinea votes with corruption and economic woes key
Material belongs to: The Olympian. Papua New Guinea voters are going to the polls in elections dominated by corruption allegations hanging over their prime minister…
Bolivian president Evo Morales names USA the source of corruption and drug trafficking
Bolivian president Evo Morales wrote in his twitter account on Tuesday June 27: “In countries, where the USA brought to power their puppets drug trafficking and corruption…
Brazilian President Michel Temer is charged with corruption
According to BBC the chief prosecutor of Brazil Rodrigo Janot has officially charged their president Michel Temer with bribery. Janot asked the Supreme Court for the first time in…
Queensland anti-corruption campaigner Jim Dodrill ‘attacked’ in bushland
This material belongs to: The Guardian. A Queensland anti-corruption campaigner and his father say they were attacked by a group of men while walking in bushland west…
Congo president’s daughter charged with corruption in France
This material belongs to: France24. Investigators have widened a corruption probe into the French assets of three African ruling families, charging the daughter and son-in-law…
How Alexandria’s ‘leaning tower’ became an emblem of the city’s corruption
This material belongs to: The Guardian. When the 13-storey tower block toppled it exposed problems at the heart of the construction industry in a country…
Sygnia Supports Anti-corruption organisations with new unit trust mechanism
This material belongs to: Corruption Watch. Sygnia Launches two new unit classes within the Sygnia Money Market Unit Trust – all management fees to be…
South Africa adds central bank row to economic and political troubles
This material belongs to: Reuters. A major row in South Africa over the independence of its central bank escalated on Tuesday, with both sides trading barbs…
American casino owner loads the dice against Netanyahu in testimony in corruption case
American casino tycoon Sheldon Adelson and his wife Miriam have been giving testimony to Israeli police as the investigation into allegations of corruption against Prime…
‘I won’t resign’ – Brazil’s president vows to fight hush money claims
Brazilian President Michel Temer says he will fight allegations that he endorsed the paying of hush money to an ex-lawmaker jailed for corruption. His words…
Romania anti-corruption protests enter fourth day as political crisis deepens
Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Romania have rallied for a fourth night to protest against the government’s controversial corruption decree. The capital Bucharest saw…
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