The Biden administration on Monday announced a new strategy to counter corruption and illicit finance, as well as new steps from the Treasury Department to tackle how illegal actors abuse the real estate market in the United
Former Prime Minister Najib Razak, who was convicted of corruption last year for his role in one of the world’s largest financial scandals, withdrew his request for a multimillion-dollar property from the Malaysian government after it
Austria was thrust into political turmoil after former Chancellor Sebastian Kurz quit his party and politics, prompting his hand-picked successor and finance minister to also resign. The day of commotion in Vienna started with Kurz’s
An Indian government agency has summoned Amazon.com top management in the country along with officials from Future Coupons Pvt Ltd. to query them about a botched deal, The Economic Times newspaper reported. The Enforcement Directorate — the agency that investigates
Australia passed new rules Thursday that will make it easier to sanction accused human-rights abusers, becoming the latest U.S. ally to pass a law styled after the U.S. Magnitsky Act. The U.S. Congress first passed
The man who brought the Olympics to South America for the first time has been sentenced to more than 30 years in prison after a judge in Brazil ruled that Rio de Janeiro’s success at
Facebook’s problems with European privacy law could be about to get a whole lot worse. But ahead of what may soon be a major (and long overdue) regulatory showdown over the legality of its surveillance-based
Banks are spending billions of dollars a year on anti-money laundering rules and compliance but are doing little to stop criminals moving money around the financial system, according to the boss of one of Sweden’s
One in three people across the Pacific Islands region have paid a bribe when using a public service in the last year, while a quarter of people have been offered a bribe for their vote
China’s ruling Communist Party slammed the “money worship”, “extreme individualism” and corruption that emerged in the four decades since the country opened up, calling for stronger party leadership and moral discipline in a key resolution
All of the net inflows collected by UBS exchange-traded funds this year are into sustainable products, while its other ETFs have seen aggregate net outflows. UBS Asset Management said its sustainable product range was “really
Three-quarters of the public are concerned about corruption in government, including seven in 10 of 2019 Conservative voters, according to a new poll. It comes after Boris Johnson said that Britain is not “remotely a corrupt country” as a sleaze row engulfed
