22 Aug 2023 ( BBC ) Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences in the UK. She is suspected of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million dollar oil and gas contracts. A key figure in ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, she also served as...
24 Aug 2023 ( CNBC ) Two founders of Tornado Cash, the widely known Russian cryptocurrency mixer, have been charged with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. In a newly unsealed indictment, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov have both been accused of sanctions violations and laundering...
18 Aug 2023 ( New York Times ) Can an intellectual on an anti-graft crusade win the presidency in a nation sliding toward authoritarianism? Guatemala is about to find out. Bernardo Arévalo had been enjoying a quiet and predictable life for nearly a decade with his family in...
19 Jul 2023 ( U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ) Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated one individual, Jordan “Orce” Kamcev, in North Macedonia pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14033. Today’s designation underscores the United States’ continued commitment to...
15 Aug 2023 ( The Guardian ) At the last military checkpoint before he exited Ukraine in April, a 39-year-old man from Odesa handed over papers showing he had a serious spinal injury, thus exempting him from military service and from the ban on adult men leaving the country. “One...
14 Aug 2023 ( The National News ) Nearly 400 international suspects have been arrested on charges of money laundering in the past two years, the Ministry of Interior has announced. The ministry on Monday said it had received 521 complaints of money laundering crimes in 2021 and 2022, which...
15 Aug 2023 ( BusinessToday ) Institution has failed to deploy any of money reserved to fight graft on the continent The African Development Bank has admitted that a $55mn integrity fund launched with great fanfare seven years ago has still not been put into operation and has...
06 Aug 2023 ( Reuters ) Iraq plans to ask Interpol to issue international alerts seeking the arrest of former senior officials including an ex-finance minister and an ex-intelligence chief over the suspected theft of more than $2.5 billion from the country's Tax Commission. The scandal centres on...
20 July 2023 ( Kyivpost ) As its Western partners highlight areas to be reformed to enable Ukraine’s integration into Europe and NATO, Kyiv is battling the risk of corruption in its military supply chains, according to its defense minister. Speaking at a Ukrinform media briefing yesterday Wednesday, July 19,...
26 July 2023 ( Scientific American ) A prominent journal has decided to retract a paper by Ranga Dias, a physicist at the University of Rochester in New York who has made controversial claims about discovering room-temperature superconductors — materials that would not require any cooling to...