July 26th, 2018The International Monetary Fund has given its backing to Ukraine’s revised plans for an anti-corruption court, fulfilling one condition for unlocking the next $2 billion installment of aid to Kiev.
The court is being set up as part of Ukraine’s $17.5 billion bailout package and has become a symbol of its efforts to stamp out...
June 8th, 2018Ukraine’s parliament on Thursday adopted legislation to create an independent anti-corruption court, raising cautious hopes that the country was on a path to unfreeze a $17.5bn IMF aid programme by addressing problems of widespread political graft.
Petro Poroshenko, Ukraine’s president, said the legislation to create the court, an...
June 15th, 2017Brazil's Supreme Court (STF) on Tuesday ruled that Andrea Neves, sister of political figure Aecio Neves, should be kept in prison, almost a month after she was jailed on corruption charges.
Andrea Neves' defense team has asked for her to be freed, stating she is being accused of a recent crime, but the STF justices considered that...
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 14th, 2016Abuja - The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Felix Tangwami, former Chairman of the Demsa Local Government Area of Adamawa State, for alleged improper receipt of N981,46 million.
He has been arraigned before Justice Helen Nuhu Hamman Joda of Adamawa State High Court, sitting in Yola, on a five-count charge...
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...
October 30th, 2015(Photo: Business Daily/file)
Eldas MP Adan Keynan had demanded a Sh100 million bribe to influence a parliamentary committee report investigating the matter, a court heard Wednesday.
A video clip of Bungoma Senator Moses Wetang'ula, then minister for Foreign Affairs, played in court shows him accusing Mr Keynan of demanding the money...
October 29th, 2015(Photo: howng.com)
Nigeria’s former national security adviser pleaded not guilty on Monday to money laundering in connection with $423,000 in Nigerian and United States currency seized at his homes.
The former official, Sambo Dasuki, also denied charges of illegal possession of an arms cache, including assault rifles and a submachine...
October 7th, 2015(Photo: REUTERS/RICK WILKING)
The Westminster Magistrate’s Court on Marylebone Road, London, on Monday granted an application for seizure of 27,000 pounds seized from a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke was arrested and later released on bail on Friday for alleged corruption-related...
October 6th, 2015Ghana has suspended seven high court judges, on top of the 22 junior judges and magistrates already sanctioned over graft allegations after an undercover journalist claimed he had filmed them taking bribes.
Last month, 22 circuit judges and magistrates were suspended, and 12 high court judges were placed under investigation, after they...
