28 Mar 2023 ( SCMP ) China’s top anti-corruption agency on Monday launched a new round of inspections into some of the nation’s leading financial institutions, in another indication of a coming regulatory storm. The probe, together with a recently announced regulatory shake-up in financial oversight, shows the urgency with which...
28 Mar 2023 ( laprensalatina.com ) President Ferdinand Marcos Jr Tuesday said the Philippines would “disengage from any contact and communication” with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after it rejected the government’s appeal to call off its probe in the controversial war on drugs in the country. “We don’t...
25 Mar 2023 ( Washington Post ) Venezuela’s attorney general said Saturday that 21 people, including senior officials in the government of President Nicolás Maduro and business leaders, have been arrested in connection with a corruption scheme involving international oil sales. Prosecutor Tarek William Saab said the alleged scheme...
23 Mar 2023 ( APNews ) A federal jury has found a former Puerto Rican mayor guilty of bribery, extortion and conspiracy in the U.S territory’s latest government corruption case. Ángel Pérez Otero, who was mayor of the northern city of Guaynabo and president of Puerto Rico’s Mayors’ Federation,...
23 Mar 2023 ( APNews ) Paraguay’s attorney general launched a criminal investigation Thursday into U.S. allegations that a former Paraguayan president and the current vice president were involved in corruption and had ties to a terrorist group. Paraguay’s Attorney General Emiliano Rolón Fernández said a team would look...
23 Mar 2023 ( Aljazeera ) Abdul Qadir Al-Dulaimi was shot three times — in the head, shoulder and kidney — in what he said was apparent retaliation for his work with United States government forces after they invaded Iraq in 2003. He thought his work and the attack would qualify...
23 Mar 2023 ( Reuters ) Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro on Monday accepted the resignation of the country's powerful oil minister following the detention of at least six high level officials amid a corruption probe focused on state-run company PDVSA and the judiciary. Tareck El Aissami had said earlier...
19 Mar 2023 ( BBC ) A South African accountant who was investigating high-level corruption cases has been shot dead along with his son. Cloete Murray, 50, was the liquidator for Bosasa, a company implicated in numerous government contract scandals. He also worked as a liquidator for firms linked to...
15 Mar 2023 ( CNN ) Chinese billionaire and proclaimed dissident Guo Wengui was arrested Wednesday and charged with defrauding thousands of followers out of more than $1 billion through complex investment schemes, US prosecutors announced Wednesday. Guo, a staunch critic of the Chinese government who is exiled in Manhattan and...
14 Mar 2023 ( Lithub ) In the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, Nouri al-Maliki bloc came second, having been beaten by the secular mixed list of Ayad Allawi. But both the Americans and the Iranians had agreed to support Maliki’s bid to serve a second term—the Iranians because he...