This material belongs to: EURACTIV. Twelve EU member states offer ‘golden visas’ to the super rich. In return for some form of investment, non-Europeans receive…
This material belongs to: DW. The two men face charges of embezzlement and fraud relating to government contracts worth millions. The trial comes at a…
This material belongs to: South China Morning Post. From obscurity, Ye Jianming built a business empire with 263 billion yuan in sales before he turned…
This material belongs to: The Mandarin. South Australian Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander yesterday released a report from entitled “Oakden: a shameful chapter in South…
This material belongs to: Kashmir Monitor. It is only through a narrative around corruption that the Indian political class believes it can bridge the chasm…
This material belongs to: Slovakia International Radio. At a press conference held on Wednesday afternoon, Slovak Culture Minister Marek Maďarič (Smer-SD) has announced his immediate…
This material belongs to: India Today. Karti Chidambaram, who was arrested in the INX Media case today morning, was destroying evidence while in the United…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. In anticipation of a new anti-corruption “super ministry,” set to be established next month, Chinese officials explained and defended a…
This material belongs to: Washington Post. In a wide-ranging late-night interview at his palace here, Saudi Arabia’s young Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described a…
This material belongs to: BBC. Saudi Arabia has sacked its top military commanders, including the chief of staff, in a series of late-night royal decrees.…
This material belongs to: Yonhap News. SEOUL, Feb. 27 (Yonhap) — Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded 30 years in prison for former President Park Geun-hye, who…
This material belongs to: Xinhua. BEIJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — The Communist Party of China Central Committee proposed writing Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics…
This material belongs to: Reuters. PRAGUE (Reuters) – A Slovak investigative journalist reporting on tax fraud among businessmen connected to the country’s ruling party was…
This material belongs to: Financial Times. Cadres disciplined by a high-profile arm of Xi Jinping’s anti-graft drive surged in January ahead of the announcement that…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. A Lithuanian lawmaker is facing impeachment after a parliamentarian investigation confirmed media reports claiming he was financially benefiting from renewable…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Punjabi National Bank (PNB), India’s second largest state-run lender, lost US $1.41 billion—almost a quarter of its current market value—after…
This material belongs to: Reuters. JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to turn state’s witness in one of several…
This material belongs to: Globovision. The Swiss authorities are investigating several Swiss banks to determine whether they fully complied with the rules to prevent money…
This material belongs to: ABC News. A British Labour MP has joined calls for the Australian Parliament to punish Russian human rights violators and criminals.…
This material belongs to: Channel NewsAsia. RIGA: Corruption allegations that led to the suspension of Latvia’s central bank governor on Tuesday may be part of…
This material belongs to: The Observer. Longtime politician Aggrey Awori, a former minister of ICT and MP for Samia Bugwe North, says President Museveni has…
This material belongs to: BBC. She’s an Oscar winner and one of the world’s highest-paid actresses but now Jennifer Lawrence is turning her back on Hollywood –…
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. Senior executives from Israeli telecommunications giant with links to Netanyahu arrested as part of ongoing probe. Israeli police have…
This material belongs to: Nyasa Times. Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs Samuel Tembenu has criticised the European Union (EU) and Britain for demanding government to finalise and…
This material belongs to: Jersey Evening Post. HUNDREDS of millions of dollars embezzled by a Nigerian dictator and hidden in Jersey bank accounts is to…
This material belongs to: New Zimbabwe. Vice President Constantino Chewenga has vowed a decisive fight against graft and warned that action would also be taken…
This material belongs to: BBC. The head of Latvia’s central bank, Ilmars Rimsevics, has been detained by the country’s anti-corruption agency. His home and offices…
This material belongs to: The Guardian. New president to deliver first major speech vowing to prioritise economic growth and combat inequality. Cyril Ramaphosa will outline his…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Prosecutors in Munich closed out the German branch of a multinational probe into corruption at Airbus, ordering the company to…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Four Venezuelan journalists have fled the country after being threatened and sued for reporting irregularities in food distribution companies linked…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. The US subsidiary of Rabobank pleaded guilty to obstructing an investigation into money laundering by Mexican drug cartels and has…
This material belongs to: The News Minute. Its deputy chief executive, Penny Lawrence, quit on Monday saying she was “ashamed” of how the organisation had…
This material belongs to: The Nation. Thailand’s two fugitive prime ministers, Thaksin and Yingluck Shinawatra, left Japan for Hong Kong on Tuesday, Japan News reported,…
This material belongs to: Yonhap. SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Yonhap) — Prosecutors said Wednesday they have ordered a former vice chairman of Samsung Group to undergo…
This material belongs to: Reuters. GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and a former finance minister who is now chairman of Oxfam International…
This material belongs to: Bloomberg. The world’s biggest sovereign wealth fund signaled it will get tougher in weeding out companies from its portfolio that don’t…
This material belongs to: Rudaw. ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – Iraq’s former trade minister Falah al-Sudani was sentenced on Monday to 21 years in jail by…
This material belongs to: SABC. African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Ace Magashule and Deputy Secretary General Jessie Duarte have arrived at President Jacob Zuma’s…
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. A close friend of the former South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison over corruption,…
This material belongs to: Reuters. (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Monday announced charges against five former Venezuelan officials accused of soliciting bribes in exchange for helping…
This material belongs to: Voice of America. LONDON — Politicians, public figures and criminals suspected of buying property with corrupt money will be forced to explain…
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. Dhaka, Bangladesh – A court in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has sentenced former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to jail in a corruption…
This material belongs to: Financial Times. Case signals limits on free speech despite kingdom’s liberalisation push. A Saudi Arabia court has jailed a prominent newspaper…
This material belongs to: The Hill. Israeli police chiefs will recommend to the country’s attorney general that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on corruption…
This material belongs to: 12WBOY. BALTIMORE (AP) – Federal prosecutors and a defense team for one of two Baltimore detectives fighting racketeering and robbery charges…
This material belongs to: Geo News. ISLAMABAD: The accountability court conducting corruption proceedings against former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his family concluded the day’s hearing…
This material belongs to: Reuters. GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Multinational food and beverage company Nestle said on Tuesday that it would stop buying palm oil…
This material belongs to: Reuters. MANILA (Reuters) – Dozens of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals have been arrested in the Philippines on suspicion of extortion of…
This material belongs to: The Observer. The EU delegation in Uganda said yesterday (5 February) it has identified allegations of malfeasance and corruption in managing…
This material belongs to: The Times of Israel. Officers say Haim Katz, his son and top Israel Aerospace Industries officials should be tried for bribery,…
This material belongs to: Africa News. The judge in charge of handling corruption cases against public officials in Nigeria has himself been accused of corruption,…
This material belongs to: Reuters. HANOI (Reuters) – A high-profile former Vietnamese oil executive was sentenced to life in jail for embezzlement on Monday, two weeks…
This material belongs to: Euronews. Romania’s leading anti-corruption chief is asked to step down as the country’s reforms continue to anger citizens. Laws that allow…
This material belongs to: Al Monitor. BAGHDAD — Iraq is boosting its efforts to extradite fugitives wanted in corruption cases. On Jan. 25, Iraqi authorities…
This material belongs to: Forbes. Saudi Arabia’s high profile anti-corruption drive looks to be coming to the end of its first phase, with the government saying…
This material belongs to: The New York Times. United States prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas in a far-reaching investigation of international sports corruption, seeking…
This material belongs to: BBC. A sweeping anti-corruption drive in Saudi Arabia has generated an estimated $106.7bn (£75.6bn) in settlements, the kingdom’s attorney general has…
This material belongs to: Reuters. RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has released 23 of the 200-or-so powerful individuals detained since November on corruption charges after…
This material belongs to: Forbes. Two of the defendants in the soccer corruption trial spent Christmas in jail after being found guilty of multiple charges…
This material belongs to: Scroll.in. It takes an average of eight years to investigate complaints of corruption against central government officials. When the Bharatiya Janata…
This material belongs to: Reuters. LIMA (Reuters) – Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski defended his pardon for Alberto Fujimori on Monday as justified clemency for…
This material belongs to: Forward. JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of people gathered in Tel Aviv to protest against corruption in the government of Prime Minister…
This material belongs to: WSJ. The release suggests several high-profile suspects are agreeing to settlements. The Saudi government in recent days has released at least…
This material belongs to: Washington Post. SEOUL, South Korea — The 95-year-old founder of the Lotte Group and his son and group chairman were convicted…
This material belongs to: The Times. A former associate of the gangster Paul Massey has claimed that police officers received bribes “left, right and centre”,…
This material belongs to: Quartz. A five-year old complaint filed by an anti-corruption coalition over a billion-dollar oil deal in Nigeria has resulted in the…
This material belongs to: El Comercio. On Friday, December 22, 2017, the Constitutional Court (CC) will notify the Assembly of the decision on the request…
This material belongs to: The New York Times. CHIHUAHUA, Mexico — A former deputy in President Enrique Peña Nieto’s party has been arrested as part of…
This material belongs to: Reuters. HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday promised zero tolerance in his government’s push to punish corruption that…
This material belongs to: Oilprice.com. An Italian judge ordered on Wednesday oil majors Eni and Shell, as well as Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi and other…
This material belongs to: Forbes. Vietnam’s export-led economy has grown at an enviable 6% or so since 2012 and shows no signs of stopping, if you listen…
This year so many corrupted public officials went to jail, that prisons are running beyond maximum capacity. However, this does not necessarily mean that corruption…
This material belongs to: VOA News. TAIPEI — Vietnam’s first move to prosecute a former politburo member widens the country’s crackdown against graft to appease a…
This material belongs to: Phil Star. MANILA, Philippines – President Duterte will fire about 90 policemen over corruption as he stressed that he would not…
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. Palestinian billionaire businessman Sabih al-Masri has been released by Saudi authorities following his detention last week. Al-Masri told the Reuters news…
This material belongs to: Sowetan. A joint operation between the Hawks’ Serious Corruption Unit and Road Traffic Management Corporation’s National Traffic Anti-Corruption Unit culminated in the…
This material belongs to: Fortune. Airbus confirmed the departure of planemaking chief Fabrice Bregier as part of a series of board moves on Friday to…
This material belongs to: The Guardian. South Africa’s anti-corruption watchdog alleges £16m intended for memorial events in 2013 was stolen and misspent by officials. Nelson…
This material belongs to: The Guardian. Alexei Ulyukayev sentenced to eight years in prison and fined $2.2m in case that has shocked liberal elements of…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Britain announced on Monday the creation of a new National Economic Crime Center (NECC) to crack down on money laundering,…
This material belongs to: OCCRP. The daughter of a top Moldovan judge lived large in London thanks to 1.6 million lei (US$ 130,000) that was channeled…
This material belongs to: Washington Post. QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuador’s vice president was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday after a court convicted him…
This material belongs to: Reuters. RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz said on Wednesday his government was determined to confront corruption with…
This material belongs to: Huffington Post. December 9th was International Anti-Corruption Day; a day on which to remember that we live in a world where…
This material belongs to: Reuters. VIENNA (Reuters) – An Austrian former finance minister went on trial on Tuesday accused of bribery and embezzlement in one…
This material belongs to: BBC. The Venezuela authorities say they are opening a corruption investigation into one of the country’s most influential political figures, the…
This material belongs to: Vanguard. ABUJA—THE Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, yesterday said it has captured at least 50,000 contractors. According to the BPP, the…
This material belongs to: IOL. Durban – The mayor of the municipality at which slain African National Congress councillor Sindiso Magaqa served on Monday denied…
This material belongs to: Huffington Post. New Delhi, 11 December 2017–Joining hands with UNODC South Asia on the International Anti Corruption Day, South Asia’s leading changemakers emphasised the need…
This material belongs to: IOL. Johannesburg – The scandal over alleged accounting shenanigans at disgraced Steinhoff International has infuriated unions invested in the Government Employees’…
This material belongs to: Chicago Tribune. I have no particular desire to see former Gov. Rod Blagojevich released early from his 14-year prison sentence. And despite claims…