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…
Salvadoran Ex-President and his wife found guilty of illegal enrichment
El Salvador’s court has found Ex-President Elias Antonio Saca and his wife, Ana Ligia de Saca guilty of illegal enrichment and ordered them to return…
Deutsche Bank to pay nearly $125 million over bribery violations
Deutsche Bank AG will pay nearly $ 125 million to end US prosecution on charges of bribery and fraud in the market of precious metals.…
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Pakistani authorities arrested ex-foreign minister for disproportionate assets
Pakistan’s National Accountability Bureau has arrested former foreign minister and high-ranking opposition leader Khawaja Muhammad Asif in an ongoing probe into allegations of possessing assets…
Brazilian construction giant fined $ 50 million for corruption
Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, which recently changed its name to Novonor, must pay a $ 50 million fine to Colombian authorities for corruption related to…
Chairman of Moscow Public Monitoring Commission presents annual report
According to Georgy Volkov, head of the Moscow Public Monitoring Commission (PMC), an attendance of places of detention by human rights defenders has increased by…
Japan ex-Prime Minister questioned by prosecutors
Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was voluntarily questioned by Tokyo prosecutors in a case of allegations that his political group illegally covered part of the…
Two US pharmacy owners accused of $ 30 million fraud and money laundering
US authorities has accused two owners of more than a dozen pharmacies in New York City and on Long Island of $ 30 million in…
US authorities arrest psychiatrist for $ 10 million insurance fraud
A psychiatrist in the United States was arrested for fraud with insurance companies, which he billed for $ 10 million in treatment. At the same…
Bosnia’s chief judge resigns amid corruption allegations
Milan Tegeltija, head of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s highest judicial authority, said he is stepping down due to pressure from fellow judges and Western diplomats over…
Ex-head of Financial Police of Kyrgyzstan detained on suspicion of illegal fundraising
Bakir Tairov, ex-chairman of the Financial Police of Kyrgyzstan, was detained for illegal receipt of money on a large scale from the head of one…
UAE court finds Saudi Arabian labour minister guilty of fraud against businessman
A Dubai court has found Saudi Arabian labour minister Ahmed Al-Rajhi guilty of fraud and fined him $ 450 million in favor of Palestinian-Canadian businessman…
Maltese authorities arrest 15 money laundering suspects
Maltese authorities have arrested 15 people in a money laundering case. Local media claim the criminal group was smuggling fuel in collaboration with the Italian…
Saudi Arabia accuses 51 people of corruption in the Ministry of Defense
The Saudi Oversight and Anti-Corruption Authority has announced the opening of criminal cases against a number of officers and civil servants of the Kingdom’s Ministry…
American oil executives convicted of corruption in Venezuela
A Venezuelan court has sentenced six former oil executives of US refiner Citgo to jail on corruption charges. Deutsche Welle reports. The five men, who…
Ex-judge in China charged in $ 11 million bribery
Zhang Jian, former president of the Higher People’s Court of east China’s Anhui Province, appeared in court at the Intermediate People’s Court of Xiamen in…
FIFA suspends head of African football for five years for corruption
The head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad Ahmad, has been suspended by the International Football Federation (FIFA) for five years for giving…
KGB accused ex-CEO of Belgazprombank of bribery and money laundering
Former CEO of Belgazprombank Viktor Babariko has been accused of bribery and money laundering. The State Security Committee (KGB) of the Republic of Belarus reported…
American priest stole nearly $ 300,000 church money
Andrey Kovalenko, former priest from Bedford, Ohio, is accused of embezzling nearly $ 300,000 in church funds intended to serve his parishioners. According to the…
Seven American businessmen charged with $ 16 million fraud
Seven businessmen from Texas have been indicted for filing more than 80 fraudulent applications for a loan from the state in the amount of about…
False prophet who fled South Africa for fraud and money laundering arrested in Malawi
Malawi police arrest South African preacher and businessman Shepard Bushiri. Earlier, he had fled from justice from South Africa to Malawi. Reuters reports. Bushiri was…
Australian police arrest man over Iraqi officials bribes worth $78 million
Australian police have arrested Russell Waugh, former Leighton Offshore Pty Ltd managing director, for bribing Iraqi officials in the amount of $ 78 million to…
Kazakh ex-banker sentenced to 11 years in prison for embezzling $ 334 million
A court in Almaty has sentenced former banker Zhomart Ertaev to 11 years in prison for embezzling $ 334 million from Bank RBK. The court…
Ex-Harvard coach accused of taking $1,5 million in bribes
A former Harvard University fencing coach was arrested on charges of taking bribes from a businessman. In exchange for the money, he promised to secure…
Israeli police arrest man on suspicion of € 1,5 million fraud
Ilan Abraham Marco, citizen of Israel and France, called elderly French people, who had suffered from binary options fraud, and presented himself as a French…
Bolivian Football Federation head detained at match over corruption charges
The interim head of the Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) was detained by police on corruption charges during the World Cup qualifying match with Ecuador. The…
Fugitive Iraqi governor sentenced in absentia for embezzlement of $ 11.7 million
The Iraqi Integrity Commission reported that Karrar Al-Abadi, former governor of Babil province, was sentenced to three years in prison for embezzling $ 11.7 million…
Portuguese police searched Benfica and Sporting offices in corruption case
Portuguese police have raided the offices of football clubs Benfica, Sporting, and Santa Clara as part of a corruption and money laundering investigation linked to…
Former Kansas bank executive sentenced to five years for $ 15 million fraud
A former Kansas bank executive was sentenced to five years in prison for fraudulently seeking a $ 15 million building loan from 25 Kansas banks.…
Microsoft employee sentenced to nine years for $ 10 million fraud
A US court has sentenced Ukrainian national and former Microsoft programmer Volodymyr Kvashuk to nine years in prison for stealing over $ 10 million in…
Peruvian Congress ousted president on corruption charges
The Congress of the Republic of Peru has ousted president Martin Vizcarra on November 9 in an impeachment vote on corruption charges and his handling…
One of China’s most corrupt banker sentenced to death
A court in China sentenced the former chairman of Hengfeng bank, Cai Guohua, to death with two-year reprieve after convicting him of corruption, embezzlement, bribery…
Senior police officers in Slovakia arrested on corruption charges
The Slovak authorities searched the homes of several high-ranking former police officers in the country and brought them in for interrogation on charges of corruption…
Ex-king of Spain faces new money laundering charges
The prosecutor’s office in Spain have opened an investigation into whether ex-king Juan Carlos I used credit cards linked to accounts not registered in his…
Brazilian president’s son accused of corruption and operating a criminal organization
The Brazilian prosecutors has accused Flavio Bolsonaro of corruption for receiving salaries for his employees, who did not really work for him, when he was…
Ex-CEO of Raiffeisen bank accused of fraud, embezzlement and bribery
The Zurich prosecutor’s office has accused the former head of the Swiss bank Raiffeisen Pierin Vincenz of fraud, embezzlement and bribery after a two-year criminal…
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists
Arturo Alba Medina, a Mexican journalist and TV presenter, was killed in the crime-ridden city of Ciudad Juarez just after his program ended. This is…
Former FIFA secretary general handed suspended jail term in corruption case
A Swiss court has sentenced Jerome Valcke, a former FIFA general secretary, to a suspended sentence for his role in the allocation of World Cup…
Romanian prosecutors accuses ex-minister of bribery
The Romanian prosecutor’s office has accused former politician Nicolae Banicioiu of bribery in the amount of € 800,000 while he was minister of sports and…
US authorities charged 60 people in $ 300 million telemarketing fraud
The U.S. Attorney’s Office has indicted 60 people for their involvement in a $ 300 million nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme targeted that targeted elderly victims.…
Two Americans charged in $ 2 million COVID-19 relief fraud
Steven Goldstein, a San Fernando Valley businessman from California, was arrested on charges of fraud with his business partner Raymond Magana. Goldstein and Magana fraudulently…
Head of State Veterinary Inspection detained in Kyrgyzstan on suspicion of embezzlement of public funds
The State Committee for National Security of the Kyrgyz Republic suppressed a corruption scheme that has been operating for a long time in the State…
Former American drug fighter convicted in $ 4.4 million fraud
Former Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman, Garrison Kenneth Courtney, was sentenced to seven years in prison for posing as a CIA officer to defraud several companies…
South Korean ex-president sentenced to 17 years in prison on corruption charges
The Supreme Court of South Korea has confirmed the sentence against former President Lee Myung-bak, who was found guilty of corruption. He will spend 17…
Brazilian senator caught stealing money intended for fight against coronavirus
Brazilian Senator Chico Rodrigues was caught with approximately $ 5,000 in his underwear. The money was found during a search of the politician during a…
South African military general’s wife arrested for $ 6 million fraud
South African authorities have arrested the wife of a senior military general, Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu, on charges of $ 6 million fraud, Sunday Times reports. Later,…
Germany’s largest bank fined 13,5 million euros for money laundering violations
Frankfurt prosecutors fined Deutsche Bank 13,5 million euros for violations related to money laundering of the Estonian branch of Danske Bank, Bloomberg reports. German bank…
Ex-manager of Unaoil sentenced for bribery in Iraq
A London court sentenced the former employee of the oil and gas consultancy Unaoil to 3.5 years in prison for bribing Iraqi officials to win…
Maldives ex-vice president sentenced to 20 years for corruption
Maldives court has sentenced ex-vice president Ahmed Adeeb to 20 years in prison for corruption, embezzlement, money laundering and misuse of government authority related to…
Slovenian Prime Minister indicted for abuse of power in real estate deals
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa has been indicted on suspicion of abuse of power in real estate deals in the early 2000s. Jansa can be…
Africa loses $ 89 billion every year to corruption in exports
Africa is losing nearly $ 89 billion a year, equivalent to 3.7% of Africa’s GDP, due to tax evasion and corruption in exports, according to…
Сoronavirus threat to convicts in overcrowded Zimbabwe prisons
Hopewell Chin’ono, a well-known Zimbabwean investigativ journalist. and Jacob Ngarivhume, opposition leader, spoke about the harsh conditions and overcrowding in Zimbabwe’s prisons, as well as the…
US fraudster created Black Lives Matter and spent $200,000 in donations for personal purchases
The FBI arrested an Atlanta fraudster in the United States for forming the Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta and squandering $ 200,000 in donations…
Iran sentences ex-judiciary official to 31 years in prison for corruption
The Iranian authorities has sentenced Akbar Tabari, a former high-ranking judiciary official, to 31 years in prison on charges of “setting up and heading a…
US authorities accused 57 people of stealing $ 175 million from pandemic relief programs
The US Department of Justice had accused 57 people of stealing $ 175 million from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help small businesses during…
Personal protective equipment corruption akin to murder, says South African President
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has compared those linked to Covid-19 personal protective equipment corruption to murderers, Sunday Times reports. Speaking to members of the…
China’s Netflix fined $ 35 million for stock fraud by securities regulator
Chinese streaming service LeEco (Leshi Internet Information & Technology) said that it has been fined $35 million following an investigation into suspected fraud in its…
Israel Police investigating multimillion-dollar fraud
On September 7, Israeli police arrested 30 people for massive conspiracy using false documents on hundreds of companies, tax evasion and money laundering tens of…
Ecuadorian court upholds corruption conviction for ex-president
A court in Ecuador upheld a sentence handed down in April against ex-President Rafael Correa and barred him from taking part in the 2021 presidential…
Football corruption whistleblower faces 90 criminal charges
Football Leaks whistleblower Rui Pinto is facing 90 criminal charges, including computer fraud, attempted extortion and violating privacy of correspondence after he accessed and shared…
American pleads guilty in $ 722 million cryptocurrency fraud
A California resident pleaded guilty to a cryptocurrency mining fraud of $ 722 million. Joseph Frank Abel of Camarillo, California, USA, admitted that he was…
Iranian press-freedom awardee jailed over criticism of authorities
Iranian economic journalist Mohammad Mosaed said the court sentenced him to 4 years and 9 months in prison and banned him from conducting journalism activities…
Zimbabwe court frees anti-corruption activists
A court in Zimbabwe freed prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, who exposed corruption in the supply of equipment to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and Zimbabwe’s…
Nigerian authorities investigate $ 140 million corruption case
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has quizzed top management staff of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), over allegations of…
Governor in Kenya fired 48 officials over lack of proper education
Governor of Kiambu County in Kenya James Nyoro fired 48 municipal board members over lack of proper education. Nyoro said their appointments were made in…
Head of medical clinic in US sentenced to 13 years in prison for laundering multimillion-dollar
The head of a medical clinic in the United States was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in a vast multimillion-dollar health…
China – Iran: Illegal Oil Trade
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project investigated the laundering of China’s oil money for Iran. Swedish-Iranian businessman Hatam Khatun Nema ran an obscure Hong…
Americans lost $ 100 million to COVID-19 fraud
In 2020, U.S. residents lost over $ 106 million and filed over 160,000 reports of fraud related to COVID-19 and $ 1,200 stimulus checks. The…
US man sentenced to nearly 3 years in prison for $ 62 million compounded medication scam
On August 26, James Chen of Monterey Park in the San Gabriel Valley in the United States was sentenced to 34 months in federal prison…
US clinic owner sentenced to 4 years in prison for $ 5 million fraud
Mahyar David Yadidi, who worked as a chiropractor at the San Pedro Philips Chiropractic Clinic in Los Angeles, was sentenced, Aug. 25, to just under…
US citizen charged of fraudulently taking $414,000 in COVID-19 relief funds
On August 25, a North Carolina local in the United States was charged with fraud to receive over $ 414,000 in COVID-19 relief from the…
Russian Accounts Chamber reveals the payment of pensions after death
Auditors of the Accounts Chamber in Russia found that the territorial offices of the Pension Fund continue to pay pensions after the death of citizens…
Mauritanian police released ex-president after arrest for corruption on own recognizance
Former Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz has been released on his own recognizance and remains under surveillance after being interrogated by the Economic Crimes…
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