June 22nd, 2018Police in Vietnam arrested four executives of state oil firm PetroVietnam’s subsidiaries on suspicion of embezzlement on Thursday as the communist-led government widens a crackdown on corruption.
Dinh Van Ngoc, deputy chief executive officer of Nghi Son Refinery and Petrochemical LLC, and three others were accused of “abusing...
February 28th, 2018South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 30-year jail term for former President Park Geun-hye who was ousted last year amid an influence-peddling scandal as supporters braved the winter cold outside the Seoul court demanding her immediate release.
Park, 66, was dismissed in March after being impeached and is standing trial on...
February 6th, 2018A high-profile former Vietnamese oil executive was sentenced to life in jail for embezzlement on Monday, two weeks after was also imprisoned for life on similar charges in a separate case, state media reported.
Trinh Xuan Thanh, a former official whom Germany said was kidnapped by Vietnamese agents in a Berlin park in scenes...
February 5th, 2018A South Korean appeals court on Monday suspended a jail sentence handed down to Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee, setting him free after a year’s detention amid a corruption scandal that brought down the former president.
Seoul High Court jailed Lee for two and a half years, reducing the original term by half, and suspended the...
August 7th, 2017Wang Min, former Communist Party of China chief of northeast China's Liaoning Province and senior national legislator, was given a life sentence Friday (August 4 2017) for embezzlement, accepting bribes and dereliction of duty.
The sentence was handed down by the Intermediate People's Court of Luoyang City in central China's Henan...
August 1st, 2017Once China's most wanted fugitive, Yang Xiuzhu, who fled China in 2003, stood trial for embezzlement and taking bribes on Friday (July 28 2017).
According to the trial held at Hangzhou Intermediate People's Court in eastern China's Zhejiang Province, from 1996 to 1997, Yang took advantage of her posts in Wenzhou city to embezzle more...
June 2nd, 2017Former China Resources Holdings Co. chairman Song Lin has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribe-taking and embezzlement, state media reported.
Song was fined 4 million yuan ($587,000) for stealing public assets worth over 9.74 million yuan from 2004 to 2013, the official Xinhua News Agency said. He also pleaded guilty to...
May 29th, 2017The former public security boss of China's northern city of Tianjin was given a suspended death sentence on corruption charges, state media reported on Saturday.
Wu Changshun was convicted of bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power, the official People's Daily newspaper said on its WeChat public account.
The death sentence was...
March 29th, 2017Wu Changshun, a former senior political advisor and police chief in north China's Tianjin Municipality, stood trial Wednesday on charges including accepting bribes, embezzlement and abuse of power, according to a court statement.
Wu was formerly vice chairman of the Tianjin Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political...
March 15th, 2017"This (countering corruption and crime in general) calls for systematic, professional work at all stages, from preventing crime to pressing charges in court." Putin said.
Assessing the performance of the prosecution agencies in 2016, Putin specified that 3,800 criminal proceedings were instituted on corruption charges following...
