United States: Jury selected in 2nd trial over NCAA recruitment
April 23rd, 2019 A jury was selected Monday to hear evidence in the trial of an aspiring agent and a former amateur coach charged with bribing big-school coaches to boost their business prospects with amateur basketball players. Opening statements by lawyers were scheduled to occur Tuesday morning in Manhattan federal court in the trial of business...
Brazil: Brazil's Petrobras revisits whistleblowers in wake of trading scandal
April 23rd, 2019 Brazil’s Petroleo Brasileiro SA is re-examining its treatment of whistleblower complaints after the indictment of six of the state-run oil firm’s traders in December indicated that efforts to root out corruption had faltered, according to three people familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, officials at Petrobras, as the firm...
Algeria: 5 billionaires arrested as part of anti-corruption drive
April 23rd, 2019 Algerian authorities have arrested five billionaires as part of an anti-corruption investigation, State TV reported. Issad Rebrab, the founder and chairman of Cevital, Algeria's biggest privately held company, was arrested on Monday alongside four brothers from the Kouninef family. Reda, Abdelkader, Karim and Tarek Kouninef are...
Malaysia: Sabah Railway deputy director, his two wives claim trial to bribery, money laundering
April 23rd, 2019 The deputy director of the Sabah Railway Department and his two wives pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court here Monday (April 22) to bribery and money laundering charges involving RM2,199,739. Ismail Ahmad, 59, was charged with 23 counts of graft of which eight were committed individually by him, while nine were committed along...Anti-Corruption Compliance Solutions
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