02 May 2023 ( OCCRP ) Iranian officials and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei enriched themselves through international aid intended to support Iran's COVID-19 response, according to a report by anti-corruption research service UNISHKA. The report found that a pharmaceutical company overseen by Khamenei, Barakat Pharmaceuticals, saw profits increase 36...
29 May 2023 ( CNN ) Members of Congress are facing renewed scrutiny after a new disclosure report filed by Florida Democrat Lois Frankel revealed that she dumped First Republic Bank stock prior to its collapse and purchased JPMorgan stock before JPMorgan purchased First Republic. According to a financial...
29 Apr 2023 ( AP News ) Iran’s Parliament voted Sunday to fire the country’s industries minister over alleged mismanagement amid widespread dissatisfaction with the government. Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said 162 of 272 lawmakers present voted in favor of dismissing Reza Fatemi Amin. The chamber has...
18 Apr 2023 ( Africa News ) Ugandan prosecutors on Monday charged a second government minister with corruption-related offences in a scandal stemming from the diversion of roofing sheets that should have been distributed to vulnerable people. Amos Lugoloobi, the state minister for finance in charge of planning,...
27 Apr 2023 ( The National News ) Pras Michel, a rapper from the 1990s hit trio The Fugees, has been found guilty of helping funnel money from a billion-dollar Malaysian scam into US politics. After a trial that featured Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio as a witness, Michel was found guilty...
27 Apr 2023 ( American Independent ) Fifty-one senators voted on Thursday for a resolution that would have eliminated a past deadline for ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and effectively deemed it ratified. But 46 Republicans voted to filibuster the legislation, leaving the constitutional amendment in limbo. “We are...
26 Apr 2023 ( DW ) British American Tobacco (BAT), one of the world's largest tobacco companies, has agreed to pay more than $629 million (€571.3 million) to settle charges that it did illegal business with North Korea in violation of US sanctions, the Justice Department said on Tuesday. The company's...
22 Apr 2023 ( ABC ) Russia's richest people added $227 billion to their wealth over the past year, buoyed by high prices for natural resources and rebounding from the huge loss of fortunes they experienced just after the Ukraine war began. Russia has 110 official billionaires in the...
22 Apr 2023 ( The Guardian ) Corporate greenwashing should not undermine the message behind Earth Day and has nothing to do with its original aims, one of the founders of the annual environmental event has warned. Denis Hayes, the American environmental activist who coordinated the first Earth...
23 Apr 2023 ( The Star ) Iranian deputy oil minister Jalil Salari said an average of nearly 10 million liters of diesel are smuggled out of the Islamic republic per day due to its competitive price. Salari, who is also the managing director of the National Iranian...