U.S. to Exit Global Anti-Corruption Effort Aimed at Oil Cash
This material belongs to: Bloomberg. The Trump administration said it will exit a global anti-corruption effort that compels oil, gas and mining companies to disclose…
Report Reveals Corruption At Education Ministry
This material belongs to: TOLOnews. The report says 75 percent of teacher training graduates are not being hired at schools due to corruption in the…
China’s Anti-Corruption Czar, Accused of Corruption, to Step Down
This material belongs to: The Washington Free Beacon. Xi goes full Mao in codifying ‘thought’. China’s anti-corruption czar who is also the Communist Party official…
How Political Corruption Fuels Gang Violence In Central America
This material belongs to: Pacific Standard. Behind the devastating crime rates in the region lies an insidious network of political collaboration with violent gangs like…
Mmusi Maimane: In the 21st century, corruption shouldn’t be this easy
This material belongs to: BIZ News. JOHANNESBURG — Last week saw one of the biggest developments in South Africa’s state capture saga as it was revealed that US…
ESIC Launches Online Anti-corruption Education Tutorial
This material belongs to: LawInSport. The esports Integrity Coalition (ESIC) has today launched its esports specific online anti-corruption education tutorial. The tutorial, which can be…
Corruption increases cost of business – Madonsela
This material belongs to: Namibian. FORMER South African public protector Thuli Madonsela says the cost of doing business increases when there is corruption. Madonsela, who…
Rajasthan’s ordinance on immunity for officials seems to violate Supreme Court rulings on corruption
This material belongs to: Scroll.in. The state’s BJP government has protected judges and civil servants from being investigated for corruption unless permission is granted by…
Corruption probes in Brazil have deep impact on business community
This material belongs to: CGTN. Dozens of politicians and big companies have been entangled in corruption allegations in Brazil as police and prosecutors look into…
The anti-corruption fight continues in China
Xi Jinping has more tigers, foxes and flies in his sights This material belongs to: Nikkei Asian Review. With or without Wang, president’s anti-graft purges to…
IMF discusses fighting global corruption during annual meeting
This material belongs to: CGTN America. The annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund & World Bank has closed in Washington. One sideline agreement to…
South African Supreme Court upholds reinstating 783 corruption charges against Zuma
This material belongs to: Reuters. BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a High Court ruling to reinstate…
Reform chair files bill to bar candidacy of those convicted of corruption
This material belongs to: ERR.ee. Chairman of the opposition Reform Party Hanno Pevkur on Monday filed a bill with the Riigikogu aimed at eliminating the…
Corruption: We must take up the task of policing Judges – Femi Falana
This material belongs to: Daily Post. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has asked members of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) to take up the task…
British police get a new weapon to fight corruption
This material belongs to: The Economist. Foreign crooks will find it harder to hang on to their London mansions and sports cars. For successful crooks…
Commentary: Bold moves needed to weed out unhealthy attitudes about corruption
This material belongs to: Channel NewsAsia. Ernst & Young Advisory’s Reuben Khoo and Saket Bhartia say that strengthening whistle-blowing measures and public education are key…
Anti-corruption push key to economic growth in Mexico – Carstens
This material belongs to: Reuters. MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Better economic prospects for Mexico depend on a concerted push to end corruption in the country,…
Iraq’s next battle: corruption
This material belongs to: Euromoney. Iraq’s former industry minister, Mohammed Alderajy, is brutally honest about the country’s culture of corruption and resistance to reform. The…
Corruption: Punishing conniving banks, officials
This material belongs to: PUNCH. The recent declaration of hostile action against corrupt bank executives and directors by the Central Bank of Nigeria raises some…
‘Anti-corruption a competitive strength’
This material belongs to: The Business Times. Corruption in Myanmar is widely described as “endemic”, and experts trace its roots to the decades of military…
Corruption is the ‘termite of politics,’ Pope Francis says
This material belongs to: CRUX. Speaking in the north-central Italian town of Cesena on Sunday, Pope Francis outlined his own version of “Profiles in Courage,”…
Vic public servants show corruption fears
This material belongs to: 9News. A quarter of Victorian public servants fear losing their job if they report corruption, while just one third are confident…
Mercury in the Air, in the Water, in the People
This material belongs to: OCCRP. Using circular motions, Misael Reyes massages soft wet mud over a copper plate, causing it to flow – and reveal…
Overturned Convictions Loom Over Menendez’s Corruption Trial
This material belongs to: The New York Times. NEWARK — They were two of the most notable corruption convictions in recent political history, two entrenched…
COSATU knows how to fight political corruption in South Africa
Cosatu to strike against state capture, corruption This material belongs to: News24. Johannesburg – Cosatu will on September 27 hold a nationwide strike against state capture,…
Dean Skelos’s 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned
This material belongs to: The New York Times. A federal appeals panel on Tuesday overturned the 2015 corruption convictions of Dean G. Skelos, once the powerful…
Gold and Chaos in Orinoco
This material belongs to: OCCRP. In Venezuela’s prisons, the pran (gang boss), who gives pranato its name, is the supreme and unquestionable leader of the…
‘Craft policies to curb smuggling, corruption’
This material belongs to: News Day. The Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) yesterday called on government to craft effective measures to curb smuggling, corruption…
APDA lauds proposed establishment of special courts for corruption, financial crime cases
This material belongs to: Premium Times. One of the newly registered parties, the Advanced Peoples Democratic Alliance, APDA, has praised the Nigerian Judiciary for its…
Gold and Chaos in Orinoco
This material belongs to: OCCRP. A joint investigation by Efecto Cocuyo and OCCRP explores the Orinoco Mining Arc — the Venezuelan government’s controversial attempt to…
IBAC annual report trumpets body’s results
This material belongs to: Herald Sun. Victoria’s peak anti-corruption body has trumpeted its results in its annual report released to parliament today. The independent Broad-based…
China top graft buster says corruption fight ‘world class hard’
This material belongs to: Reuters. BEIJING (Reuters) – Fixing the corruption problem in China’s ruling Communist Party is “world class hard” and the battle will…
The Princess, the Private Investigator and Another Inquiry for FIFA
This material belongs to: The New York Times. LONDON — A Jordanian princess who is married to the billionaire ruler of Dubai has for more…
Probe into State Firms Reveals Nagging Corruption Problem in Vietnam
This material belongs to: VOA News. A multi-million-dollar banking flap being investigated in Vietnam this month casts light on a tough corruption problem that nips…
KPMG shows SA needs to build immunity to corruption on all fronts, says Mcebisi Jonas
This material belongs to: Business Day. The complicity of audit firm KPMG in corrupt activities showed that the private sector also had to be censured, former…
Addressing Corruption with Clarity
This material belongs to: IMF. By Christine Lagarde, IMF Managing Director. Brookings Institution, Washington, DC, September 18, 2017 September 18, 2017 Introduction Thank you, Norm,…
Everyone’s furious at ‘corruption’ that stole megafight from Golovkin
This material belongs to: New York Post. Veteran boxing trainer and commentator Teddy Atlas slammed judge Adelaide Byrd for her seemingly lopsided scoring of the controversial…
Drug use and corruption ‘likely’ to be widespread among Victorian paramedics, report finds
This material belongs to: ABC News. The Victorian anti-corruption watchdog is warning corruption and illicit drug use is “likely” to be widespread among the state’s…
Cyprus ‘selling’ EU citizenship to super rich of Russia and Ukraine
This material belongs to: The Guardian. Passports issued under ‘golden visa’ scheme raises €4bn since 2013, according to papers seen by the Guardian. Billionaire Russian…
Report claims ethnic minority police officers are more vulnerable to corruption
This material belongs to: DutchNews.nl. The justice minister’s research institute WODC has published a new report which claims police officers with an ethnic minority background…
Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corruption Empire
This material belongs to: Asharq Al-Awsat. London- Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps is being forced to shrink its sprawling business empire and some of its senior members…
The US and UK may step in to tackle South African corruption: expert
This material belongs to: Business Tech. With the United Kingdom (UK) and US authorities updating their laws to tackle international corruption, there are now indications that…
Phil Noble: S.C’s nuclear scandal, corruption and accountability: Guest Columnist
This material belongs to: South Strand News. The current scandal of SCANA’s (S.C. Electric and Gas parent company) and Santee Cooper’s nuclear debacle is arguably…
Revealed: The Pentagon Is Spending Up To $2.2 Billion on Soviet-Style Arms for Syrian Rebels
This material belongs to: OCCRP. The Pentagon has relied on an army of contractors and sub-contractors – from blue-chip military giants to firms linked to…
Chahed: The New Government will be at war with terrorism and corruption
This material belongs to: Middle East Monitor. Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said, Monday, that his new cabinet will be a “war government that will…
Sagay: Bank chiefs aiding corruption should face trial
This material belongs to: The Nation. The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) will push for the prosecution of bank chiefs who connive with looters…
Malaysian Leader, Under Corruption Cloud, Will Meet With Trump
This material belongs to: NY Times. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — For more than a year, Prime Minister Najib Razak of Malaysia has been under the…
Everything you’ve wanted to know about McKinnsey’s corruption in SA
Money lies revealed! Pressure grows on McKinsey over SA graft scandal. This material belongs to: BIZ News. EDINBURGH — Global consultancy McKinsey distanced itself from the Gupta-Zuma scandal…
Paul O’Sullivan: #GuptaLeaks emails are authentic – arrests by Christmas
This material belongs to: BIZ News. LONDON — Paul O’Sullivan’s Forensics For Justice has access to the #GuptaLeaks cache and after running a number of tests has…
Brazilian Corruption Case Ensnares Ex-Presidents da Silva and Rousseff
This material belongs to: NY Times. SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Brazil’s attorney general on Tuesday charged former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; his successor, Dilma Rousseff; and…
Everything you need to know about Sen. Robert Menendez’s corruption trial
This material belongs to: The Washington Post. On Wednesday, a U.S. senator will sit before a jury of his peers and face charges that his…
UK at centre of secret $3bn Azerbaijani money laundering and lobbying scheme
This material belongs to: The Guardian. Exclusive: Leaked data reveals thousands of covert payments, including to European politicians and journalists. Azerbaijan’s ruling elite operated a secret…
Moldova NGOs Say Big Fish Avoiding Corruption Trials
This material belongs to: Balkan Insight. While corruption investigations are coming fast and furious in Moldova, few cases involving important people seem to end up…
‘Nothing Can be Done Well as Long as There is Corruption’
This material belongs to: The Irrawaddy. YANGON — U Thin Maung, a member of Myanmar’s anti-corruption commission, explained in a recent interview with The Irrawaddy…
Patel: Corruption toll could be R27bn to GDP, 76 000 job losses
This material belongs to: Daily Maverick. Cape Town – Corruption costs the SA gross domestic product (GDP) at least R27bn annually as well as the…
President Jacob Zuma’s son Duduzane denies alleged corruption
This material belongs to: BBC. The son of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has denied involvement in alleged corruption despite his links with controversial businessmen.…
Schools and SAPS generate most corruption complaints
This material belongs to: Sunday Times. The highest levels of corruption reported occur in schools‚ representing 9.9% of the total‚ followed by corruption in the…
Technical Chamber of Greece proposes integrated database to tackle red tape, corruption
This material belongs to: Ekathimerini. In the effort to overcome Greece’s notorious bureaucracy, conflicting laws and corruption that is sabotaging badly need investment, the president…
Interview: How investigation into Alison-Madueke’s corruption killed NEXT newspaper — Dele Olojede
This material belongs to: Premium Times. Feyi: In terms of the operation of NEXT, you had 13,000 applications and you picked 90 out of them.…
Ex-Thai commerce minister sentenced to 42 years in jail over rice bidding scam
This material belongs to: Xinhua. A former Thai commerce minister was on Friday sentenced to 42 years in jail under a historical lawsuit involving an…
Thailand Issues an Arrest Warrant for Its Former Prime Minister After She Fails to Show For a Verdict
This material belongs to: Time. Thailand’s Supreme Court has issued an arrest warrant for former prime minster of Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra after she failed to show up…
Interview: How investigation into Alison-Madueke’s corruption killed NEXT newspaper — Dele Olojede
This material belongs to: Premium Times. In this second part of his extensive interview with Feyi Fawehinmi, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Dele Olojede, speaks on why NEXT newspapers, which…
Corruption in state governments? Researchers turn to reporters for answers
This material belongs to: Chron. AUSTIN – What are the most corrupt state governments in the United States? It’s a question that public interest groups…
China has a message for Western companies: corruption does not pay
This material belongs to: South China Morning Post. Nicholas Leong says awareness of shifting regulations and due compliance are the safeguards for foreign firms, as…
Trump’s Business of Corruption
This material belongs to: New Yorker. The first part is located here. The second part is located here. This is the final part. It was difficult…
Cancer of corruption needs to be excised completely – Busa
This material belongs to: Moneyweb. It is the responsibility of all companies to report all potential cases. The recent spate of alleged corrupt activities involving…
Trump’s Business of Corruption
Part One. This material belongs to: New Yorker. That wasn’t the only puzzling thing about the loans. At the time that B.T.A. was lending all this…
Trump’s Business of Corruption
This material belongs to: New Yorker. What secrets will Mueller find when he investigates the President’s foreign deals? President Donald Trump’s attorney Jay Sekulow recently…
Corruption, climate change nexus
This material belongs to: Zambia Daily Mail. Kelvin Siwale THE effects of corruption go as far as causing environmental degradation which culminates into climate change.…
Tunisia’s Fight Against Corruption: An Interview with Chawki Tabib
This material belongs to: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. “We are heavily counting on Tunisian and international civil society, the media, and every single Tunisian…
Anti-corruption key to SMEs survival – CBI
This material belongs to: Vanguard. The convention of Business Integrity, has identified anti-corruption as a key to the survival of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises,…
The Trump Administration Rolls Back Anti-Corruption Efforts in the Oil Industry
This material belongs to: The New Yorker. In February, in one of its first acts of lawmaking, the Trump Administration, with the Republican-controlled Congress, rescinded…
Nigeria has lost N11trn to power sector corruption
This material belongs to: Vanguard. Nigeria has lost a whooping N11 trillion to corruption in the power sector since 1999, a university lecturer, Dr Yemi…
As Asia’s Corporates Grow Up, Tackling Global Corruption Will Fall To The UN
This material belongs to: Forbes. As Asian economies continue to expand and the region becomes increasingly critical of the success of global business, the need…
Mexico’s Billionaires Concerned With Corruption, Head Of Leading Business Group Says
This material belongs to: Forbes. The Confederation of Mexican Employers (Coparmex), a voluntary membership business organization with 36,000 members that include companies owned by Mexico’s billionaires,…
Panama Papers: The Ghost Of Corruption Will Destabilise Our Country One Day And Then…
This material belongs to: Star of Mysore. Therefore, the decision taken by the Pakistan Supreme Court in the Panama Papers Scandal is worth emulating by our…
Mexican Firms Paid $89.5M in Bribes in 2016; Sweeping Anti-Corruption Law Now Targets Officials and Businesses
This material belongs to: CNS News. Mexican anti-corruption advocates are giving an enthusiastic thumbs up to sweeping new anti-corruption law that took effect last month, in…
Trump Has Turned America’s Reputation for Fighting Corruption Into a Joke
This material belongs to: Mother Jones. “Everyone seems to know (or hope) that the present administration is an exception.” Jessica Tillipman was recently leading an anti-corruption…
Weakening of state institutions ‘boosts private sector corruption’
This material belongs to: Business Day. The private sector has been complicit in facilitating the illegal removal of money out of SA, warns academic. The…
‘Bad-Mind’ Active – Crime, Violence, Corruption And Envy. The Worst Things About Living In Jamaica
This material belongs to: The Gleaner. Crime, violence and ‘bad-mindedness’ have emerged as the main issues that cause most Jamaicans to not be so proud…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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