September 12th, 2019
Sri Lanka's top court on Wednesday rejected an appeal by presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa to dismiss corruption charges against him, in a possible blow to the frontrunnner's candidacy.
In a split decision, a panel of five Supreme Court judges rejected a petition by Rajapaksa, who had asked that a lower court case in which he...
May 17th, 2019
A Georgetown student whose dad paid $400,000 to get his son into the elite college as a sham tennis recruit is suing the university for planning to oust him — saying they should have known he was a fake.
Adam Semprevivo says he wasn’t part of the shady deal, for which his dad has pleaded guilty and faces jail time, and put the...
May 17th, 2019
One of Hong Kong’s biggest financial regulatory investigations saw its first charges filed Thursday.
Cho Kwai-chee, founder of the city’s largest private health-care group, was charged with conspiracy to defraud Hong Kong’s stock exchange and a listed firm where he was director, anti-corruption police said in a statement. Cho...
May 17th, 2019
The MACC has been granted four more days to hold a chief executive officer who is being questioned over allegations of accepting money in return for projects.
The 45-year-old CEO will be remanded until May 20 after Magistrate Shah Wira Abdul Halim approved MACC prosecutors’ request for an extension.
It is learnt that...
May 15th, 2019
A minister from Estonia’s ruling coalition accused past governing parties, including one that’s currently in power, of allowing dirty cash to flow through the country’s banks in one of Europe’s largest money-laundering scandals.
Prosecutors are investigating a case involving multiple lenders after Danske Bank A/S...
November 11th, 2016Former Mexican governor Guillermo Padres, who has been accused of corruption, turned himself in to authorities on Thursday, a rare move for one of Mexico's many ex-state leaders facing graft charges.
The former governor of Sonora, a northwestern state bordering the United States, says he is innocent of charges of money laundering, tax...
March 24th, 2016(Photo: Gabriel Bouys/AFP/Getty Images)
The former mayor of Rome has appeared in court for the first hearing in his trial for corruption and illegal financing as part of a crackdown on a mafia-style network in the city.
Gianni Alemanno, who was agriculture minister under Silvio Berlusconi and mayor of the capital from 2008 to 2013, is...
January 15th, 2016Milan prosecutors accused six former and current Deutsche Bank AG executives, including Michele Faissola, Michele Foresti and Ivor Dunbar, of colluding with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA to falsify its accounts, manipulate the market and obstruct the activity of authorities.
Prosecutors completed an investigation into two separate...
December 29th, 2015(Photo: Bloomberg News)
Criminal charges have been filed against an Afghan businessman accused of bribing U.S. troops.
A complaint filed last week in federal court in North Carolina alleges Hikmatullah Shadman bribed two former Fort Bragg soldiers while they were deployed in 2009.
Shadman is the owner and...
November 9th, 2015The chairman of the Code of Conduct Tibunal (CCT), Danladi Umar, has been accused of corruption by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC).
This was disclosed on Saturday in a letter obtained by Post Nigeria addressed to the former president Goodluck Jonathan and the secretary general of the federation, Anyim Pius...
