January 24th, 2020
Agents of Monaco-based consultancy Unaoil paid some $6m in bribes to secure oil contracts worth $800m in Iraq, Britain’s Serious Fraud Office alleged on the first day of a trial that is part of a wider probe into corruption in the Middle Eastern country.
Ziad Akle, Paul Bond and Stephen Whiteley appeared at a hearing at Southwark...
January 24th, 2020
This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) reveals that a majority of countries are showing little to no improvement in tackling corruption.
Transparency International's analysis also shows corruption is more pervasive in countries where big money can flow freely into electoral campaigns and where governments listen only to the...
January 24th, 2020
The executive board of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has suspended IWF head Tamás Aján for 90 days, pending an investigation into charges of corruption levelled against him in a recent documentary aired on the German ARD channel, the insidethegames.biz website said late on Wednesday.
The documentary aired on...
January 24th, 2020
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejected opposition parties’ demands that he review a Maritime Self-Defense Force dispatch to the Middle East, rethink casino-related legislation and conduct an investigation into himself over taxpayer-financed parties.
The prime minister on Jan. 22 answered questions in the Diet for first time since the...
January 23rd, 2020
Renault said on Wednesday that France’s anti-corruption agency AFA was carrying out checks at the firm, confirming a report in French magazine Challenges, although a source at the carmaker added that the inspection was a routine matter.
Challenges did not detail what the inspection was about.
One of the remits of the...
January 23rd, 2020
A former Maryland state lawmaker and leading advocate of marijuana legalization pleaded guilty Wednesday to bribery and fraud charges after being accused of accepting more than $33,000 in exchange for granting various legislative favors, including work relevant to the pot industry.
Cheryl Diane Glenn, who represented the city of...
January 23rd, 2020
A public servant was detained Wednesday morning and taken for questioning under caution on suspicion of corruption, the Israel Police said.
Hebrew-language media reported that the suspect is an aide to a minister.
The case branched out from a separate probe conducted by the Lahav 433 anti-fraud unit, a police statement...
January 23rd, 2020
A prominent Malawi banker has been arrested in connection with a suspected attempt to bribe a panel of five judges presiding over the country’s presidential election vote-rigging case, the Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) said on Wednesday.
Malawi opposition parties are challenging the state electoral commission’s May 27 declaration...
January 22nd, 2020
OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria believes escalating discontent in Latin America is linked to the region’s greatest challenge: corruption.
“Discontent is linked to corruption (and) corruption is a terrible cancer,” Gurria said Tuesday during a World Economic Forum session entitled “Strategic Outlook: Latin...
January 22nd, 2020
Nigeria’s anti-graft agency said Tuesday it had filed corruption charges against a former justice minister over a US$1.3 billion dollar oil scandal involving international majors Shell and Eni.
Mohammed Adoke was arrested last month on arrival from the United Arab Emirates where he had been detained on a Nigerian warrant in...
