September 19th, 2019
For many Brazilian moderates exhausted by the constant controversy surrounding President Jair Bolsonaro, Tabata Amaral is a breath of fresh air. A 25-year-old Harvard-educated lawmaker, Ms Amaral has in recent months emerged as a rising star of Brazilian politics and a liberal counterpoint to the nationalistic Mr Bolsonaro.
Ms...
February 27th, 2019A British judge on Tuesday ordered the extradition of a French businessman suspected of funneling money from former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to finance Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign.
Alexandre Djouhri is wanted by France over a series of allegations including active corruption of a foreign public official,...
February 19th, 2019The son of Mozambique's former president Armando Guebuza was arrested on Saturday in a legal crackdown on suspects linked to a $2 billion government debt scandal, local media and judiciary sources said.
Ndabi Guebuza, the oldest of Guebuza's four children, was picked up from his home in the capital Maputo.
Maputo-based independent...
October 5th, 2018A Seoul court was set Friday to deliver its verdict on former President Lee Myung-bak on a string of corruption charges.
The sentencing hearing is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. at the Seoul Central District Court and will be televised live. If found guilty, Lee, 76, will become the fourth former South Korean president to be convicted...
June 25th, 2018Romania’s president said Saturday he would seek a new term in office, pledging to fight corruption after the leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party was convicted for abuse of power in office.
President Klaus Iohannis said he decided to make the announcement after Social Democratic leader Liviu Dragnea was given a 3½-year jail...
May 24th, 2018Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak denied all charges against him on the first day of his corruption trial in Seoul on Wednesday.
Lee was president from 2008 to 2013. He has been accused of illicitly taking funds from the nation's intelligence agency.
He is also suspected of Samsung Electronics into covering the cost of a...
November 14th, 2016South Korean prosecutors have confirmed they will question under-fire President Park Geun-hye over allegations of corruption which span more than four decades.
If Park agrees, it will be the first time a sitting president has been questioned by prosecutors.
Presidential privilege would shield Park from prosecution, except in cases of...
November 4th, 2016South Korea’s embattled president on Friday apologized to the nation over a snowballing political crisis involving a secret aide and said she would submit to an investigation “if necessary,” as her approval ratings dropped to the lowest recorded since democracy arrived here.
Park Geun-hye, who made history four years ago when...
October 20th, 2015(Photo: AP)
Dilma Rousseff is facing a new probe into the government’s fiscal probity just weeks after a government watchdog rejected the Brazilian president’s 2014 public accounts.
Augusto Nardes, the judge who led the investigation into irregularities in last year’s federal budget told the Financial Times that the probe would...
October 8th, 2015(Photo: United Nations)
The United Nations said it hasn’t launched an internal investigation into allegations by U.S. prosecutors that a former General Assembly president and others engaged in a bribery scheme, fueling criticism that the international body isn’t doing enough to weed out corruption.
The U.N. on Wednesday said that...
