07 Apr 2023 ( Military Times ) Entertainer Jon Stewart ripped military spending as out-of-control and unfocused during a wide-ranging interview with the Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks on Thursday, saying that more needs to be done to get money to troops and families instead of defense contractors. “We got out...
06 Apr 2023 ( Propublica ) IN LATE JUNE 2019, right after the U.S. Supreme Court released its final opinion of the term, Justice Clarence Thomas boarded a large private jet headed to Indonesia. He and his wife were going on vacation: nine days of island-hopping in a volcanic...
31 Mar 2023 ( Financial Times ) Belgian and German police raided the headquarters of the European People’s party in Brussels on Tuesday, in the latest move by authorities to probe alleged corruption in EU politics. Police seized documents from the EPP, Europe’s largest political grouping, as part of an...
31 Mar 2023 ( kyivpost ) The logic underlying the various legal systems in democratic countries tends to be similar. Yet Ukraine’s use of necessary anti-corruption organs has this former prosecutor scratching his head. The news about allegations of corruption against Andriy Pivovarsky, Ukraine’s former Minister of Infrastructure, by NABU (National...
31 Mar 2023 ( rferl ) A court in Sarajevo has sentenced Fadil Novalic, the prime minister of the Bosniak-Croat Federation -- one of Bosnia-Herzegovina's two entities -- to four years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption in a case regarding the purchase and importing of...
31 Mar 2023 ( Journal Record ) One startup lists as its address a small home in a working-class district in Venezuela’s capital whose owner has never heard of the firm. Another is a Hong Kong-based shell company created in 2020. Yet another belongs to a Spanish commodities...
31 Mar 2023 ( The New Voice of Ukraine ) The National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK) has added the largest Chinese construction contractor in the Russian Federation, China State Construction Engineering Corporation (CSCEC), to the list of international sponsors of the war, the agency wrote on its website on...
03 Apr 2023 ( SCMP ) A team of senior sporting officials will take over operations at the Chinese Football Association (CFA) amid a sweeping campaign targeting corruption in the sport. The General Administration of Sport of China on Monday said it had set up a seven-member working group to lead its football...
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...