United States: Florida businessman gets 20 years in $1B Medicare fraud
September 13th, 2019 A Florida health care executive was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison for orchestrating what prosecutors described as a massive $1 billion Medicare fraud scheme. U.S. District Judge Robert Scola imposed the sentence on Philip Esformes, 50, in one of the biggest such cases in U.S. history. Scola called the case one of a...
Peru: US judge denies bail to ex-Peru president in corruption case
September 13th, 2019 A U.S. judge in San Francisco denied bail to former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo in a hearing Thursday that ended with an emotional outburst by his wife, who had to be dragged out of the courtroom after she started shouting at prosecutors. Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson denied bail for the second time to Toledo, 73, who is...
Switzerland: FIFA bans jailed soccer official Napout for life for bribery
September 13th, 2019 FIFA has banned former soccer official Juan Angel Napout for life, almost 21 months after he was convicted on racketeering and corruption charges in a Brooklyn court. FIFA says its ethics committee judges found Napout guilty of bribery between 2012 and 2015, and fined him 1 million Swiss francs ($1.01 million). It is unclear how FIFA...
El Salvador: UN to deploy assessment mission to El Salvador to support anti-graft commission
September 13th, 2019 UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday decided to deploy an assessment mission to El Salvador as a first step to back its government's new anti-graft commission. The government of the Central American country has requested the United Nations' support in establishing this international commission to fight impunity and...Anti-Corruption Compliance Solutions
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