30 Mar 2023 ( Al Jazeera ) Revelations of gold smuggling by individuals affiliated with Zimbabwean government officials and the ruling party in an Al Jazeera documentary have triggered outrage in the country. The four-part documentary titled The Gold Mafia was filmed by Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit (I-Unit), based on dozens...
29 Mar 2023 ( Fiji Times ) Romania’s Senate approved a bill on Wednesday decriminalising some abuse of power cases in a move reminiscent of attempts to weaken the fight against corruption which triggered major street protests six years ago. Romania is one of the European Union’s most corrupt...
29 Mar 2023 ( Raconteur ) When Russian missiles and airstrikes began falling on Ukraine on the morning of 24 February 2022, it triggered a devastating and destabilising domino effect that would first affect people’s lives and eventually the global economy. More than a year on, those economic effects are still...
28 Mar 2023 ( The Hill ) As the United States and its global partners kick off the highly anticipated Summit for Democracy this week, there’s a unique window of opportunity for collaboration in combating illicit financial flows that contribute to the erosion of democracy around the world. As...
28 Mar 2023 ( Aljazeera ) United States prosecutors have unveiled a new indictment against Sam Bankman-Fried, accusing the founder of now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange of conspiring to bribe Chinese government officials with $40m worth of payments. Federal prosecutors in Manhattan charged Bankman-Fried with directing the payment in order to...
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...