15 Jun 2022 (The Guardian) State capture is growing on every continent but only because the west helps to launder and hide money stolen by kleptocrats. Last week, John Penrose, Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar, resigned in protest at his leader’s apparent breach of the ministerial code during Partygate. In January, Lord...
11 Jun 2022 (The Arab Weekly) It would be foolish to warn the Iraqi people against Moqtada al-Sadr. At this late stage, advice does not work. No one can claim not to know the truth about the man who was presented in a sectarian hue as the...
9 Jun 2022 (ALARABIA NEWS) Nearly $700 million in public funds has been misappropriated from state-run banks in Iraq in a scandal implicating more than 40 people, an anti-corruption commission said Thursday, after a three-year probe. A total of 926 billion Iraqi dinars ($697 million) went missing due...
7 Jun 2022 (USNEWS) The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled a committee to oversee the ethics of its investments, even as a corruption trial related to a botched London real estate deal in which it lost more than 200 millions euros continued. The committee will be headed by a...
3 Jun 2022 (ALJAZEERA) Alymkadyr Beishenaliyev is accused of involvement in a corrupt scheme linked to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines. Kyrgyzstan’s health minister, who recommended a poisonous root as a treatment for coronavirus, has been arrested following a corruption probe linked to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines,...
2 Jun 2022 (Reuters) Tong Daochi, a former senior official of China's southern Hainan province and an ex-securities regulator, was sentenced to death for bribery and insider trading, with a two-year reprieve, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. Tong, also former China Communist Party secretary in...
25 May 2022 (OCCPR) China’s rosewood imports from Mali, one of its leading rosewood suppliers, have led to the devastation of Malian forests and served as a conduit for ivory smuggling, says a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Global trade in rosewood, a category of highly valued...
24 May 2022 (OCCPR) A U.S. court sentenced on Friday two sons of a former president of Panama to three years in prison each for laundering money from bribes given by Brazilian construction company Odebrecht SA. Luiz Enrique Martinelli Linares and Ricardo Enrique Martinelli Linares were found guilty of laundering US$28 million...
12 May 2022 (The Guardian) Ethics group and Democrats say questions remain, even as workers remove Trump’s name from Old Post Office building. Workers took Donald Trump’s name off his hotel on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC on Wednesday, after the completion of the $375m sale of the lease to...
10 May 2022 (GZERO) With Marcos Jr. about to win the presidency, how will his leadership change the Philippines? Well, it was a big win, almost 30 points over his opponent, and the first time we've seen an absolute majority in Philippines history for the presidency. Not huge...