A court has sentenced former director of Saudi Arabia’s Public Security agency Khaled bin Qarar Al-Harbi to 25 years in prison. The official was found…
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 authorities have arrested 20 former officials and two local businessmen on charges of embezzling $184 million from the state during the rule of…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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.…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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 police have arrested former President Juan Orlando Hernandez for one month following a request by the United States government for his extradition. In the…
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 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.…
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…
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.…
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, Carlos Jaico Carranza, has resigned due to disorder in the presidential office, which is the scope for corruption. Carranza…
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…
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,…
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…
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 have uncovered $137 million worth of corruption and fraud in government contracts related to the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. According to…
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…
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…
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…
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 has been stolen from budget COVID-19 relief programs set up to help businesses and people affected by the coronavirus pandemic. According…
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…
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 employee Roudy Pierre-Louis was sentenced to prison on fraud charges. US Department of Justice Press Service reports. From 2015 to August…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 Sebastian Kurz said he was not worried about the corruption investigation against him. He denies all charges. In an interview with public television…
Prosecutor general of Moldova Alexander Stoianoglo was detained on suspicion of corruption. He is suspected of involvement in the theft of $ 1 billion. Reuters…
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…
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 has established a specialised court focused on money laundering cases to combat financial crime, within the Court of First Instance and Court of Appeal.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 prosecutors have opened an investigation into a contract worth $ 320 million contract for 20 million doses of Covaxin vaccine made by India’s Bharat…
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.…
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…
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 has admitted to laundering more than $ 36 million that officials of the International Football Federation (FIFA) and other football organizations…
Officers from the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) have detained former mayor of Bishkek Aziz Surakmatov for corruption and illegal enrichment. –…
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…
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 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 detained 62 people on charges of fraud on the Thodex cryptocurrency exchange. An owner of the exchange fled to Albania, defrauding 400,000 investors…
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 confirmed a decision to annul corruption convictions against former president Lula da Silva. Now he can run in the presidential elections in…
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…
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…
Malawi President Arthur Peter Mutharika (C) and Norman Chisale (left)
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.…
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…
The British government has agreed with the Nigerian authorities to return almost $ 6 million laundered by a former governor of the southern oil producing…
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…
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…