11 Oct 2022 ( The Epoch News ) A former FBI special agent was convicted of accepting bribes worth at least $150,000 in exchange for providing law enforcement information to a lawyer with ties to organized crime. Babak Broumand, 56, from California, was found guilty of two counts of bribery of a...
12 Oct 2022 ( Aljazeera.com ) A Pakistani court has acquitted Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif and his son of corruption and money laundering charges filed in 2020. Judge Ijaz Hassan Awan of the Special Court Central in Lahore city announced the verdict on Wednesday in front of the prime...
6 Oct 2022 (Brookings.edu) Dekleptification (noun): The process of uprooting entrenched kleptocratic structures—USAID The enhanced USAID focus on corruption is reflected in its release in September of a trilogy of documents on anti-corruption—a draft “USAID Anti-Corruption Strategy”, USAID Guide to Countering Corrupton Across Sectors, and Dekleptification Guide. The latter is...
8 Oct 2022 (The Guardian) With the surrounding noise on human rights, worker deaths, image laundering and the rest, it is easy to forget what Qatar 2022 is really all about, the founding message at the very heart of this global festival of football. Which is, of...
22 Sep 2022 ( Independent ) It should have been simple for Magnus Carlsen, or at least as simple as a top-tier chess game can be. When the world chess champion sat down across from 19-year-old American Hans Niemann at the Sinquefield Cup earlier this month, he had the benefit...
23 May 2022 (Transparency International) The sport sector is alarmingly vulnerable to sextortion, and sport organisations must urgently address the hierarchies, systems and cultures that drive and cover up this abuse. This article addresses the sensitive topic of sexual violence and may be upsetting to some readers. Reader...
21 Sep 2022 (Caixin Global) Shanghai’s former top cop was sentenced to life in prison for corruption Wednesday, the same day the ex-police chief of Chongqing was sent away for 15 years, state media reported. Gong Daoan, 58, Shanghai’s former deputy mayor and head of the city’s public...
21 Sep 2022 (Los Angeles Times) Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor knows as “Fat Leonard” who fled home arrest in San Diego this month, was arrested Tuesday morning in Venezuela as he was about to board an airplane at the Caracas international airport, according to...
18 Sep 2022 (The Guardian) European Commission proposes withholding funds as it awaits ‘gamechanger’ reforms from Orbán government The EU’s executive arm has proposed suspending €7.5bn in financing for Hungary, as it awaited potential “gamechanger” anti-corruption reforms from Budapest. The EU and Hungary have been at loggerheads for months, with...
15 Sep 2022 (OCCRP) Videos from an apparent sting operation show high-ranking Congolese political adviser Vidiye Tshimanga offering access to the country’s minerals in exchange for a cut. The makers of the videos have refused to identify themselves. Key Findings: Congolese presidential adviser Vidiye Tshimanga promised to win mining...