United States: Ex-USC soccer coach to plead guilty in college admissions scandal
April 24th, 2019 A former University of Southern California assistant women’s soccer coach has agreed to plead guilty to engaging in a racketeering scheme in which she accepted bribes to help wealthy parents get their children into the school as part of the largest college admissions scandal in U.S. history. She becomes the 20th person to agree to...
United Kingdom: London Metal Exchange to ban metal tainted by child labour or corruption
April 24th, 2019 The London Metal Exchange (LME) could ban or delist brands that are not responsibly sourced by 2022 under an initiative launched on Tuesday to help root out metal tainted by child labour or corruption. The proposal is the largest step yet by the LME, the world’s biggest market for industrial metals, to clean up global supply chains...
France: Former French PM Fillon and wife to stand corruption trial
April 24th, 2019 Investigating judges have ordered that former Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his wife stand trial on corruption charges, a judicial official said on Tuesday. Fillon, who served as prime minister under President Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007 to 2012, was at one point the front-runner in France’s 2017 presidential race. But he saw...
Indonesia: Indonesia's PLN chief named suspect in power project graft case
April 24th, 2019 The chief executive of Indonesian state electricity utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) has been named a suspect in a graft case related to a power project, the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said on Tuesday. The KPK suspects that the president director of PLN , Sofyan Basir, “accepted the promise” of a...Anti-Corruption Compliance Solutions
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