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…
Former executive of TikTok’s rival arrested for corruption
Chinese online short-video sharing firm Kuaishou has confirmed that company’s former vice president, Zhao Danyang, has been arrested for alleged graft. Reuters news agency reports.…
Head of hospices in US defrauded patients with incurable diseases for $ 150 million
The CEO of a group of hospice and home health entities in Texas was sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud and money laundering…
Head of Kyrgyz president’s press service detained for bribe extortion
Head of the press service of the President of Kyrgyzstan Nurgazy Anarkulov was detained on suspicion of extortion of a bribe on an especially large…
Ex-head of Chinese state asset firm executed for taking $277 million in bribes
A former chairman of one of China’s top state-owned asset management companies was executed for bribery, corruption and bigamy. China Global Television Network reports. Lai…
National Australia Bank’s former chief of staff sentenced to eight years in prison for bribes
Former National Bank of Australia chief of staff Rosemary Rogers has been sentenced to eight years in prison for bribes of $ 5.5 million. She…
Ex-PM of Kyrgyzstan arrested on corruption charges
Former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev has been arrested on charges of corruption and illegal enrichment. The press service of the State Committee for…
Ex-head of provincial branch of China’s biggest policy bank fired on suspicion of corruption
Former head of a provincial branch of the China Development Bank (CDB), Wang Xuefeng, has been expelled from the Communist Party and fired from public…
Former vice president of Ecuador sentenced to eight years in prison for embezzlement
The National Court of Ecuador has sentenced former vice president Jorge Glas to eight years in prison for irregularities in contracting of the Ecuadorian Singue…
Israeli businessman sentenced to five years in prison for bribery in Guinea
A Swiss criminal court found the owner of mining company BSG Resources guilty of bribery and forgery, sentencing him to five years in prison with…
Las Vegas man charged with COVID-19 relief fraud
A Nevada man in the US has been charged with fraudulently obtaining nearly $2 million in federal COVID-19 relief aid, meant for small businesses. The…
Israeli ex-mayor sentenced to four years in prison for bribery
Tel Aviv District Court sentenced former mayor of Ashkelon to four years in prison and fined him $ 120,000 on charges of bribery, fraud and…
South Korean authorities set up agency to investigate official corruption
The government of the Republic of Korea officially set-up an anti-corruption agency to investigate high-ranking officials. Yonhap news agency reported. President Moon Jae-in formally authorized…
Ex-head of Vatican bank guilty of embezzlement and money laundering
A court found Angelo Caloia, former head of the Vatican bank, guilty of embezzlement and money laundering. He became the highest-ranking Vatican official convicted of…
French ex-PM faces trial over kickbacks from arms deals
Former French prime minister Édouard Balladur has gone on trial accused of financing his failed 1995 presidential campaign with illegal kickbacks from international arms deals.…
Ex-head of Chinese provincial communists jailed for seven years for bribery worth $ 3,7 million
A Chinese court has sentenced former Yunnan Communist Party chairman Qin Guangrong to seven years in prison for bribery. South China Morning Post reports. Chengdu…
Italian doctor sentenced to six years in prison for corruption in prosthetic and orthopedic products
A former head of a private clinic in Milan was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for corruption. He recommended Johnson &…
Head of financial police of Kyrgyzstan detained for illicit enrichment
Head of the Financial Police of Kyrgyzstan Aibek Tokoev was detained by anti-corruption service of the State Committee for National Security of Kyrgyzstan (SCNS) for…
UK launches investigation into British Virgin Islands government corruption
A British judge will independently investigate allegations of corruption against the British overseas territories authorities in the Caribbean, including reports that $ 6.8 million of…
Former senior oil service firm executive pleads guilty to bribery
Former head of sales for British oil services firm Petrofac Ltd, David Lufkin, pleaded guilty to three bribery offences of agents from 2012 to 2018…
Samsung head sentenced to two and half years in prison for bribery
A South Korean court has sentenced Samsung Electronics vice chairman Lee Jae-yong to two years and six months in prison on bribery charges worth about…
Biggest mafia trial in 30 years opens in Italy
Hundreds of alleged members of Italy’s most powerful Ndrangheta mafia group are set to face justice in the country’s biggest organised crime trial since the…
Former PACE member sentenced to 4 years for bribes from Azerbaijani politicians
A Milan court in Italy has sentenced Luca Giuseppe Volontè, former member of the Union of the Centre (UDC) and former member of the Parliamentary…
Estonian Prime Minister resigns over corruption scandal
Estonian Prime Minister Juri Ratas announced his resignation amid a corruption scandal related to issuing a state loan to the Porto Franco real estate developer…
Turkish court sentences TV preacher to 1,000 years in jail for fraud and sexual abuse
A Turkish Criminal Court has sentenced Islamic television preacher and writer Adnan Oktar to 1,075-year prison term for a range of crimes, including forming and…
Russian hacker sentenced to 12 years in US prison for hacking JPMorgan
A US court has sentenced a Russian hacker to 12 years in prison for stealing data on 100 million clients of over a dozen financial…
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