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Brazil: Brazil's Petrobras revisits whistleblowers in wake of trading scandal
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...
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Brazil: Brazil Company Wants to Pay Executives to Confess to Corruption
CCR SA, Brazil’s largest toll-road operator, is heading to a first-of-its kind shareholders’ meeting on a prickly subject: corruption. The Sao Paulo-based company is asking its investors to approve a deal it closed with a Brazilian court to...
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United States: Developer pleads not guilty to federal bribery charges linked to Ald. Edward Burke
A real estate developer pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges alleging he steered legal work to powerful Ald. Edward Burke in exchange for help at City Hall with a permit and $2 million in tax increment financing for a Northwest Side...
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Canada: Canada slowly pushes for corporate transparency as part of anti-corruption push
The veil of Canadian corporate secrecy that helps fuel global corruption is slowly lifting, but not fast enough for some critics. Canada, criticized in the past by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and others as a...
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Peru: Peru's ex-president Garcia kills himself to avoid arrest in Odebrecht probe
Peru’s former president Alan Garcia shot himself in the head on Wednesday to avoid arrest in connection with alleged bribes from Brazilian builder Odebrecht, taking his own life, in the most dramatic turn yet in Latin America’s largest graft...
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United States: Former university official pleads guilty to accepting bribes
A former associate registrar at Delaware State University has pleaded guilty to accepting bribes to change the registration status of hundreds of out-of-state students so they could pay cheaper in-state tuition at the historically black...
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United States: Union Official Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud, Embezzlement
A Des Moines union official has pleaded guilty to mail fraud and embezzlement from his union. Prosecutors said in a news release that 54-year-old Theodore Watson entered the pleas Monday in U.S. District Court in Des Moines. His sentencing is...
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United States: Prosecutors are sending 'target letters' to others linked to college admissions scam, an official tells CNN
Federal prosecutors have been sending so-called target letters to people associated with the college admissions scandal, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation confirmed to CNN. People who have received them include...
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