July 19th, 2017Police arrested the head of Spain’s soccer federation, throwing the leadership of the sport in the World Cup-winning nation into disarray a year before the next round of the elite championship takes place in Russia.
The probe into Villar, who is the second-highest ranking official in world soccer, brings fresh trauma for the sport...
July 14th, 2017Corruption is undermining all efforts to rebuild Ukraine in line with European Union norms, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday, as President Petro Poroshenko vowed to pursue ever-closer integration with the bloc.
Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk were in Kiev for a 24-hour summit with...
June 29th, 2017The Serious Fraud Office is reviewing a Fifa report into controversial bids to host the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
A 2014 report by former Fifa ethics investigator Michael Garcia had only been published as a 42-page summary but was leaked in full on Monday.
It was published by Fifa on Tuesday and revealed details of "improper" actions...
June 27th, 2017Russian lawmakers have prepared a bill that would make giving or accepting ‘intangible bribes’ a crime. It would also include punishments for arbitration judges that abuse their power.
The main sponsor of the bill – the deputy head of the Lower House Committee for Countering Corruption, MP Anatoliy Vybornyi of United Russia –...
June 8th, 2017Russian MPs have passed a bill ordering a unified list of all ex-officials who lost their posts because of corruption scandals.
The bill was prepared and drafted by the Russian Labor Ministry in early 2015, and received approval from the government in August of 2016. It was cleared by the Russian lower house in its third and final...
May 25th, 2017Russia’s Lower House has approved a bill that would create a nationwide registry containing the names of civil servants who were fired due to “loss of trust” connected with corruption.
The bill passed its second reading without discussion, with 415 of 450 Lower House MPs supporting it and no one voting against it, RBC’s news...
May 24th, 2017Final charges have been brought against former Russian Economy Minister Alexei Ulyukayev, spokeswoman for Russia’s Investigative Committee Svetlana Petrenko said on Tuesday.
"The Russian Investigative Committee’s Main Department for High-Profile Investigations has finally charged former Economic Development Minister Alexei...
April 7th, 2017Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that allegations of corruption levelled against him were "nonsense" and politically motivated, the RIA Novosti agency reported.
Speaking during a visit to Russia's Tambov region, Medvedev also called the allegations "dishonest". "The so-called investigations are attempt to bring...
April 6th, 2017Anti-corruption protests continued across Russia on Sunday, days after President Vladimir Putin admitted Russia has a problem with state corruption.
The protests hit the capital and several other cities, but attendance was notably smaller than the week before, when Russians took to the streets in droves demanding government reforms to...
March 27th, 2017Thousands of people gathered in Moscow and other major Russian cities on Sunday, heeding a call by opposition leader Alexei Navalny to protest against official corruption in what appeared to be some of the largest anti-government demonstrations in the last five years.
Police detained more than 700 protesters in Moscow, including...
