January 22nd, 2019The legal team of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to meet the country’s attorney-general on Monday to urge him to delay a decision on whether to indict the leader on corruption charges until after the upcoming elections.
The meeting comes just days after Avichai Mandelblit appeared to reject a written plea for a...
March 24th, 2016(Photo: Sebastien Bozon/AFP)
Drugmaker Novartis AG agreed on Wednesday to pay more than $25 million to the U.S. government to settle civil charges that it bribed healthcare professionals in China to boost sales there, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said.
The SEC said violations occurred from 2009 to 2013.
Novartis settled...
February 25th, 2016A man arrested at the U.S.-Canada border last week is one of four people accused of conspiring to violate trade sanctions by sending technical equipment to Iran — some of which ended up with the Iranian military, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Shahin Tabatabaei, of Vancouver, Canada, was arrested entering Washington state at Lynden,...
January 18th, 2016(Photo: AP File Photo/Harry Cabluck)
A Spanish court has ruled that a prominent former Mexican politician who was arrested on arrival at Madrid airport should be held in custody while officers investigate alleged corruption.
Former Institutional Revolutionary Party chief Humberto Moreira is under suspicion of "embezzling public funds,...
December 28th, 2015Thangmeiband MLA Kh Joykishan today charged all ministers of the Congress government of being corrupt and even challenged Social Welfare minister Ak Mirabai that he will end his political career if she could prove that her replies to a starred question during an Assembly session in 2012 are true.
The MLA was speaking at his reception...
December 8th, 2015Brazilian federal prosecutors presented formal charges against billionaire financier Andre Esteves and Senator Delcídio do Amaral on Monday, accusing them of obstructing a criminal investigation, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Esteves, a founder and top shareholder of investment bank BTG Pactual SA and Amaral, who is...
December 1st, 2015(Photo: REUTERS/LUKE MACGREGOR)
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Standard Bank PLC with a failure to disclose certain payments in connection with debt issued by the Government of Tanzania in 2013. This London-based bank acted as a lead manager for the offering and did not disclose payments made by an affiliate...
November 9th, 2015(Photo: AFP)
Victor Ponta, who quit as Romania’s prime minister this week after mass protests, made his first appearance in court on Friday on corruption charges.
As thousands of people again took to the streets demanding the overhaul of a political system they see as corrupt, President Klaus Iohannis said the country may hold early...
November 6th, 2015Impeached Vice President Ahmed Adeeb is now facing prosecution on charges of possessing illegal weapons and bribing police officers into divulging state secrets, the police have said.
Chief Superintendent of Police Hamdhoon Rasheed, speaking to the press shortly before the impeachment, said: “We are investigating two cases against...
November 4th, 2015(Photo: The Indian Express)
Claiming that millions of crores worth illicit funds are flowing out of India, HSBC whistleblower Herve Falciani today said he is willing to “cooperate” with the Indian investigative agencies in their black money probe but would need “protection”.
Falciani is facing charges in Switzerland of leaking...
