April 1st, 2019Two suspects who pleaded guilty to charges of embezzlement in the sale of Eurofighter jets to Austria were handed suspended jail terms by a Munich court, prosecutors in the city said on Friday.
They were sentenced on charges of embezzlement and aiding and abetting embezzlement, a spokeswoman said, adding that proceedings against other...
March 26th, 2019California lawyer Michael Avenatti was charged by federal prosecutors on both coasts, accused in New York of trying to extort millions of dollars from Nike Inc. and in Los Angeles of embezzling money from a client and defrauding a bank.
The charges depict a lawyer desperate for cash and willing to exploit his own clients. In...
February 4th, 2019A powerful Philadelphia union leader pleaded not guilty on Friday in an embezzlement and influence-peddling case that reached City Hall.
Johnny "Doc" Dougherty, 58, has been a major political player in Pennsylvania, steering $30 million raised by the local electricians union to mostly Democratic candidates in the last decade...
January 28th, 2019The Seoul Northern District Court sentenced Samyang Foods Chairman Jeon In-jang to three years in prison after he was found guilty of embezzling 5 billion won in corporate funds.
His wife, Samyang Foods President Kim Jung-soo, was also sentenced to a two-year term suspended for three years on the same charge.
The court found them...
January 15th, 2019The Moscow City Court on Monday upheld a ruling extending the seizure of property belonging to ex-Deputy Culture Minister Grigory Pirumov charged with $7 million embezzlement, RAPSI reports from the courtroom.
Thus, the court upheld the seizure of the defendant’s Moscow real property, land plots and residential houses.
Assets of...
November 7th, 2018Mongolia’s anti-corruption authority is investigating reports that senior government officials and parliamentarians channelled more than US$1 million in government money to their families and friends, with one minister resigning last week and another expected to step down soon.
The money was from a fund set up 18 years ago to offer...
September 21st, 2018Cho Yang-ho, chief of Korean Air Lines Co., appeared for prosecution questioning on Thursday as part of an ongoing probe into a series of allegations, including embezzlement and tax evasion.
Cho, chairman of Hanjin Group, which includes the national flight carrier, arrived at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office at around...
August 21st, 2018Former New Mexico state Sen. Phil Griego pleaded guilty Monday to embezzlement and perjury charges for misspending and falsely reporting campaign account activity, lengthening his ongoing stay in prison.
Attorney General Hector Balderas announced Monday that Griego was sentenced to an additional year based on two felony counts of...
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...
