The owner of a health care consulting firm has been sentenced to two years in prison for accepting $197,000 in payments from hospital executives that he later gave to a former New York State senator. Federal Judge Jed Rakoff said at Tuesday's...
Former Cabinet minister and Gorontalo governor Fadel Muhammad has been named a suspect in a graft case surrounding the alleged embezzlement of Rp 5.4 billion ($583,200) from the Gorontalo provincial budget - he was also implicated in another graft...
A Zambian court on Wednesday sentenced former labour minister Austin Liato to two years in jail with hard labour, after he was found guilty of concealing $400 000 found buried on his farm last year. Magistrate Arida Chulu said the court had a duty...
The Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) anti-corruption unit on Tuesday arrested two senior officers of the Central Excise department for accepting bribe of Rs1.25 lakh. The two officers, Vidyadhar V Joshi, superintendent service tax,...
The decision of the magistrate who turned down the bail application of former cement company employee and multimillion-dollar corruption suspect Esmerelda Majiedt was not wrong, according to the High Court judge who dismissed Majiedt's appeal...
A former tobacco company security manager has claimed trial at the Sessions Court here to accepting a bribe of RM20,000, which he allegedly used to finance his son’s pilot lessons. Datuk L.R. Ronald Louis, 50, pleaded not guilty to accepting a...
Vatican magistrates formally charged Pope Benedict’s butler with illegal possession of secret documents on Saturday and said a wider investigation would take place to see if he had any accomplices who helped him leak them. Paolo Gabriele is...
Already in the news due to reports last week that he raced with a potentially fatal heart condition, Eddy Merckx is making headlines again due to his reported implication in a legal matter. Belgian newspaper La Dernière Heure has reported that...
Former University of Sydney IT manager Atilla (Todd) Demiralay and his wife, Virginia Kantarzis, will be recalled to give further evidence to the Independent Commission Against Corruption's (ICAC) public inquiry this week (Thursday 3 May 2012)...
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) says it will investigate the transfer of Rp 7 trillion (US$763 million) through a bank account reportedly belonging to Riau Governor Rusli Zainal. The money was said to have been invested in a fishery...