Nigeria: Why Jonathan Could Not Accuse Me of Corruption – Amaechi
This material belongs to: All Africa. Interview By Evelyn Okakwu. In this interview with PREMIUM TIMES,Why Jonathan Could Not Accuse Me of Corruption – Amaechi…
Preparatory phase of Anti-Corruption project signed
This material belongs to: Solomon Star News. The Secretary to Cabinet, James Remobatu, today signed on behalf of the Government of Solomon Islands a preparatory-phase…
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,…
Odisha to revamp Chief Vigilance Officers system, to check corruption: CM Naveen Patnaik
This material belongs to: Indian Express. Noting that his government has zero tolerance policy towards corruption, Patnaik said transparent structures, processes and procedures has been…
Massive assets freeze in Ethiopia high-level anti-corruption crackdown
This material belongs to: Africa News. A court in Ethiopia has ordered the freezing of assets belonging to individuals and entities listed in a recent…
Suspected of Corruption, Israel’s Netanyahu Blames Media
This material belongs to: Voa News. JERUSALEM — Directly addressing his nationalist base, a beleaguered leader accuses the news media of obsessively promoting a liberal…
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In February, in one of its first acts of lawmaking, the Trump Administration, with the Republican-controlled Congress, rescinded…
Sampanthan commends Ravi K’s decision to resign
This material belongs to: Sunday Times. Commenting on the statement made by Foreign Minister Ravi Karunanayake in Parliament that he was stepping down from his…
Former Moldovan Prime Minister sent to prison for corruption, appealed to ECHR
This Thursday Vlad Filat who is the former Prime Minister of Moldova sent a request for appeal to European Court of Human Rights. Previously, he…
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…
Rody to quit if children involved in corruption
This material belongs to: Philstar. MANILA, Philippines – President Duterte yesterday expressed readiness to resign if any of his children was involved in corruption after…
Chinese province says ends corruption ‘cancer’
This material belongs to: Reuters. BEIJING (Reuters) – A Chinese province whose corruption problem was once likened to cancer has turned over a new leaf,…
China Examines Official Spending on Luxury Alcohol
This material belongs to: Bloomberg. China’s disciplinary watchdogs are examining official spending on luxury alcohol as Xi Jinping steps up an anti-corruption campaign, just as…
Win against corruption: Vellore Corporation Commissioner arrested for demanding bribe
This material belongs to: The News Minute. When the contractor went to collect his fee, the Commissioner demanded a 2% cut to release it. In…
Modi for special initiative to end poverty, illiteracy, corruption
This material belongs to: The Hindu. Modi said the menace of corruption has adversely impacted the development journey of the country. Terming corruption, poverty and…
Israeli prosecutors charge former officials with corruption
This material belongs to: ABC News. Israeli prosecutors have charged a former deputy minister and nine others in a corruption sting centered on Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman‘s…
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,…
Britain investigates British American Tobacco for corruption
This material belongs to: Reuters. LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has opened a formal investigation into suspicions of corruption at British American Tobacco (BAT) (BATS.L) and its subsidiaries, nearly…
Nicolas Sarkozy under scrutiny in prosecutors’ probe into Qatar World Cup vote-buying
This material belongs to: Daily Telegraph.Nicolas Sarkozy is to be embroiled in the criminal investigation into Qatar’s World Cup bid amid suggestions he may have benefited from multi-million-pound…
China expels anti-graft inspector from party for corruption
This material belongs to: Reuters. BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s anti-graft watchdog said on Wednesday one of its former senior inspectors had been expelled from the Communist Party after…
Sinodinos cleared in corruption report
This material belongs to: 9 News. A NSW corruption watchdog report has made no findings against federal Industry Minister Arthur Sinodinos. The long-awaited report from Independent Commission Against Corruption into water infrastructure…
Vatican justice branch sets anti-corruption goals for 2018
This material belongs to: CRUX. Nearly 50 anti-mafia and anti-corruption magistrates, Church officials, state representatives, heads of movements, victims and ambassadors met at the Vatican to…
PM Netanyahu suspected of bribery, corruption as Israel puts gag order
This material belongs to: Daily Sabah MidEast. Israeli Prime Minister is accused of bribery and corruption, police told a court on Thursday. Right after the story…
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…
Ex-oil exec surrenders to corruption probe after year on run
This material belongs to: CBS News. HANOI, Vietnam — A former Vietnamese oil executive has surrendered to police after a year on the run amid a crackdown…
Russian President Vladimir Putin: Businessmen should be freed from jail if no active investigation is present
This Thursday the 3d of August Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered that Russian Supreme Court and Attorney General’s Office quickly join heads to come up…
Is Tajikistan Really Clearing Corruption From the Anti-Corruption Agency? Not quite.
This material belongs to: The Diplomat. In April, a dozen officials and investigators from the Tajik anti-corruption agency were arrested for corruption. The chairman of the…
Ex-head of Alexandria library convicted of corruption
This material belongs to: ABC News. An Egyptian misdemeanors court has sentenced the former head of Alexandria Bibliotheca to three years in prison after convicting him on corruption-linked charges. The…
Labor tobacco donations referred to ICAC and electoral authorities
This material belongs to: The Sydney Morning Herald. Corruption authorities have been asked to investigate $400,000 worth of donations a tobacco executive made to the Labor Party,…
Congress rejects corruption charge against Michel Temer
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. Congress rejects corruption charges, preventing Temer from Supreme Court trial that could have seen him ousted. Brazil’s lower house of congress voted…
China sentences ex-provincial leader to life for corruption
This material belongs to: The Hindu. A Chinese court has sentenced the ex-Communist Party chief of a rust-belt province that had been hit by massive electoral fraud to life…
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…
Former Brazil President Lula faces sixth trial for corruption
This material belongs to: Reuters. SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, already found guilty of corruption in one graft trial, will…
Zuma outlines govt’s plans to tackle corruption
This material belongs to: SABC News. President Jacob Zuma says his government is committed to rooting out the scourge of corruption to restore investor confidence. This is…
Ex-Thai PM denies corruption as rice scheme trial reaches closing stages
This material belongs to: News World News. Former Thailand prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra denied she is corrupt before a court appearance where she will defend…
Ollanta Humala: “We are going to face the process in the country”
This material belongs to: El Comercio. The former president asked the Second Criminal Court of Appeals to face investigation under restricted appearance. Questioned prosecutor for “politicizing”…
Corruption: How the ANC shapes up against the NP – Ed Herbst
This material belongs to: BizNews. Using his 49 years of covering the South African story, Ed Herbst makes some telling comparisons and observations on corruption and…
Pedraz imposes 300,000 euros of guarantee to Villar to leave the jail
This material belongs to: El Confidencial. Gorka Villar and the federal vice president Juan Padrón will have to pay 150,000 and 300,000 euros respectively to…
Their end is nigh: Intricate network of corruption starting to unravel
This material belongs to: Sunday Times. We have not yet seen prosperous-looking men descend the steps from a courtroom down to the cells. Believe me,…
Eradication of corruption is top priority of NAB
This material belongs to: The Express Tribune. Eradication of corruption is the top priority of National Accountability Bureau (NAB), the bureau’s chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry…
ICC Anti-Corruption Chief addresses T20GL owners
This material belongs to: Sport24. Cape Town – Franchise owners of Cricket South Africa’s new T20 Global League (#T20GL) began a two-day workshop in Dubai on Saturday (29 July…
Former work safety chief demoted for disciplinary violations
This material belongs to: Xinhua. BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) — Yang Huanning, former head of the State Administration of Work Safety, has been demoted for…
Glamorous Uzbek princess who accrued a vast fortune under her father’s rule and courted British royalty and celebrities has been thrown into jail over $2bn corruption allegations
This material belongs to: Daily Mail. Glamorous Uzbek princess who accrued a vast fortune under her father’s rule and courted British royalty and celebrities has…
Pakistani court disqualifies PM on allegation of corruption
This material belongs to: CTV News. A five-judge panel of Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Friday disqualified thrice-elected Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from holding office over…
Самая разыскиваемая китайская беглая преступница созналась в коррупции
В пятницу 28 июля 2017 года в зале суда возглавившая список самых разыскиваемых за границей китайских беглых преступников женщина созналась в коррупции, через восемь месяцев…
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…
Senate slaps new sanctions on Russia, putting Trump in corner
This material belongs to: Reuters. The U.S. Senate voted almost unanimously on Thursday to slap new sanctions on Russia, putting President Donald Trump in a…
Corruption is in our blood: Muhith
This material belongs to: The Daily Star. The country has bogged down in corruption as everybody is indirectly involved in this menace, said Finance Minister…
Apologies For The Corruption
This material belongs to: The Tribune. EDITOR, The Tribune. Two PLP (Progressive Liberal Party) apologists have come to the rescue of their scandal-ridden party: Rodney Moncur…
Ex-Petrobras boss Bendine held ‘for corruption’
This material belongs to: Upstream. Short-term former CEO detained for bribery allegations in so-called Car Wash investigation: reports. Aldemir Bendine, the former chief executive of…
Allentown mayor, ex-Reading mayor charged with corruption
This material belongs to: 6abc News. The mayor of Allentown and the former mayor of Reading have been charged with corruption for a series of…
Villar resigns from FIFA and UEFA roles
This material belongs to: AFP. Deposed Spanish football boss Angel Maria Villar, in custody on corruption charges, has resigned as vice-president of both FIFA and…
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…
China’s exiled tycoon Guo ‘fabricated’ corruption claims: Xinhua
This material belongs to: Reuters. China’s Xinhua news agency accused fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui of using “fabricated and distorted information to mislead the public”, the…
NSW Murray-Darling Basin corruption will be punished, Water Minister says
This material belongs to: ABC News. The NSW Government has said any staff found to be involved in corruption relating to the Murray-Darling Basin Plan…
Billions deposited by Russian businessmen have gone missing from Sberbank
There is a nonstop flow of scandals surrounding Sberbank, the largest bank in Russia with subsidiaries all over its vast territory. The majority of Russian…
Indonesian anti-corruption investigator injured in acid attack calls for the fight to continue
This material belongs to: ABC News. “I hope with this incident, your spirit will not go weak.” They are the words of a senior Indonesian…
Brazil’s right on the rise as anger grows over scandal and corruption
This material belongs to: The Guardian. The leftwing Workers’ party enjoyed 13 years on top – but recession, crime and widespread disenchantment have prompted many…
Spain to replace arrested soccer federation boss
This material belongs to: Reuters. The Spanish state is to seek to suspend soccer federation boss Angel Maria Villar, who is under arrest as part…
After Kamal Haasan’s Corruption Tweet, Ministers’ IDs Vanish From Website
This material belongs to: NDTV. After actor Kamal Haasan appealed to people to report corruption in the state to the ministers online, email IDs of…
Brazil prosecutors triple budget for corruption probe
This material belongs to: ABC News. Brazil’s Attorney General‘s office announced on Tuesday that it has tripled its 2018 budget for the investigation into a…
NAB receives over 0.3 million corruption complaints
This material belongs to: The Express Tribune. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) received around 343,356 complaints from individuals, private and public organisations since its inception.…
Rising Chinese politician under investigation for corruption
This material belongs to: Idaho Statesman. One-time rising Chinese political star Sun Zhengcai is being investigated for violations of party discipline, the ruling Communist Party…
‘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…
Govt to seize 12 of Yingluck’s bank accounts
This material belongs to: The Nation. First civil liability action taken over rice-pledging row. TWELVE of Yingluck Shinawatra’s bank accounts will be seized by the…
Head of Russian Investigative Committee: we seized $1.07 bln from corrupted officials and businessmen
This Monday, the 24th of July, one day before Russian investigators celebrate their professional holiday, chief of Russian Investigative Committee (RIC) Alexander Bastrykin gave an…
Hand it to de Blasio: He keeps his corruption consistent
This material belongs to: New York Post. Say this for Mayor de Blasio’s pay-to-play scandals: At least they follow a regular pattern. The latest dirt…
Right to Education: CAG’s damning findings confirm it encouraged corruption and is ineffective
This material belongs to: First Post. The evidence that the noble-sounding Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009, popularly known at the…
Senate approves Bill for single anti-corruption agency
This material belongs to: Jamaica Observer. The Senate has approved the Integrity Commission Bill, paving the way for the establishment of a single anti-corruption unit to…
Alandale Rail bosses jailed for Crossrail corruption
This material belongs to: Construction Enquirer. Four men have been jailed for being involved in corrupt payments to secure work on the Farringdon Station upgrade for…
Police take anti-corruption pledge
This material belongs to: The Star. Taking the corruption-free pledge will put an end to criticism of the police force, says Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)…
DR Congo loses $750m in mining revenues to corruption
This material belongs to: Al Jazeera. Global Witness says at least $750m paid to Congo‘s tax bodies and state mining company disappeared in 2013-2015. The Democratic…
Russian Investigative Committee uncovered Swiss bank accounts of convicted billionaire police officer
Yesterday, Sunday the 23d of July, Russian media “Rosbalt” announced that its informant in Russian law enforcement told the agency about new developments in its investigation…
Malaysian authorities has launched a TV series about corruption
The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and Fantasy Film Sdn Bhd will be joining hands to produce a 13-episode drama series to raise awareness on the…
Tunisian Premier Seeks to Restore Trust With Anti-Corruption Push
This material belongs to: US News. Tunisia‘s prime minister vowed on Thursday to push ahead with a war against corruption to restore trust in the…
South African Civil Organisations protest in light of investigation into Guptas
This material belongs to: ENCA. Civil organisations to reveal anti-corruption plans Civil society organisations will reveal their plans to fight corruption. On Tuesday, nearly a…
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…
Italy Rome Corruption
This material belongs to: The Gazette. A defendant sticks his arm out of the cage in the bunker court of the Rebibbia prison during the…
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…
Possible Wimbledon match-fixing under investigation by tennis anti-corruption body
This material belongs to: Washington Post. Three Wimbledon matches from this year’s Grand Slam, including one from the main draw, are under investigation for potential…
Queensland premier stands down energy minister after corruption investigation
This material belongs to: The Guardian. The Queensland premier, Annastacia Palaszczuk, has stood down the state’s energy minister, Mark Bailey, after a damning investigation by the corruption…
Chinese Authorities Charge 210,000 Officials With Corruption This Year
This material belongs to: Sputnik News. Chinese authorities punished more than 200 thousands officials for corruption from the beginning of this year, the Communist Party’s…
Brazil freezes accounts of ex-President Silva in graft case
This material belongs to: The Gazette. Brazil’s central bank has frozen four bank accounts belonging to ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva due to his…
Swimming hit by corruption charges
This material belongs to: RFI. Swimming’s governing body Fina has been hit by a commissions scandal days before its presidential election and the start of…
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…
Civil Society Coalition Calls for Separate Independent Anti-Corruption Body
This material belongs to: The Star. A coalition of civil societies has called for the formation of an independent body to tackle issues of corruption…
Vatican hospital corruption trial starts with setbacks for defense
This material belongs to: Reuters. Two men who used to run a Vatican-owned children’s hospital were put on trial on Tuesday, accused of diverting nearly…
Thyssenkrupp finds no signs of corruption in Israel deal
This material belongs to: Reuters. German industrial group Thyssenkrupp (TKAG.DE) has not found any evidence of corruption in its handling of a $2 billion contract…
Who is Ty Cobb? The top corruption lawyer just hired by Donald Trump
This material belongs to: Independent. The experienced lawyer – with a controversial sporting relative – will be working as a White House employee. The White House…
Guatemala: state of emergency, American Mobil Probe and Mexican ex-Governor’s extradition. Everything points to corruption
This Tuesday, the 18th of July 2017 the Guatemalan authorities declared state of emergency on all roads of the country. According to the President of Guatemala…
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…
Registrar of Lands under investigation for corruption
This material belongs to: Turks and Caicos Weekly News. THE INTEGRITY Commission is currently engaged in an investigation regarding alleged acts of corruption committed by…
Tens of Thousands Protest Corruption in Dominican Republic
This material belongs to: The Wire. Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the capital of the Dominican Republic on Sunday in the biggest demonstration of…
EFCC arraigns former Enugu State Chief Judge for ‘corruption’
This material belongs to: Premium Times. The Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Friday arraigned a former Enugu State Chief Judge, Innocent Umezuluike, before…
Peru’s ex-President Humala jailed for up to 18 months before trial
This material belongs to: Reuters. Peru’s former President Ollanta Humala and his wife turned themselves in to authorities late on Thursday after a judge ordered…
Russian Oligarch to be Charged with Organizing Crime Group
This material belongs to: OCCRP. A St. Petersburg billionaire accused of alcohol smuggling may face new charges, this time for running an organized crime group…
Sheldon Silver’s 2015 Corruption Conviction Is Overturned
This material belongs to: The New York Times. A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned the 2015 corruption conviction of Sheldon Silver, the once-powerful New York…
ACB report on no corruption in Mumbai traffic department an ‘eyewash’: HC
This material belongs to: Hindustan Times. Mumbai city news: The ACB’s probe report was implausible because they themselves had unpleasant experiences on past occasions with the city…
Latvian Bank Fined €80 million for Money Laundering, Will Appeal
This material belongs to: OCCRP. One of the biggest Latvian banks has announced it will appeal last week’s French court ruling by which it has…
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