23 Jan 2023 ( nytimes.com ) Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence in the city, took payments from Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival Russian oligarch. A former high-level F.B.I. official has been indicted on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Russia...
21 Jan 2023 ( Africa News ) Son of Equatorial Guineas president, Ruslan Obiang Nsue, has been arrested and placed under house arrest on suspicion of selling a plane belonging to the country's national airline, state television (TVGE) said Tuesday. At the end of November, the authorities had...
9 Jan 2023 ( Outlook India ) It's alleged that European Parliament's Vice President Eva Kaili and others took bribes for the benefit of Qatar. As its regional role is growing and as it becomes a more self-confident nation, Qatar will not take allegations meekly. The bribery...
17 Jan 2023 ( Independent ) Nigerian leading presidential candidate Peter Obi pledged Monday to rid Africa's most populous nation of endemic corruption and widespread insecurity if he wins next month's election. Obi, who is one of 18 seeking Nigeria’s highest office, described his country as “a failing state”...
10 Jan 2023 ( The National News ) Iraq suspended the governor of the city of Diwaniyah on Tuesday while a corruption investigation is carried out. Zuhair Al Shaalan was suspended by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani over “an investigation on suspicion of administrative and financial corruption, which the competent courts...
10 Jan 2023 ( JURIST ) Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday introduced a bill in the Duma, the lower house of Russia’s Parliament, to withdraw from the Criminal Law Convention on Corruption. Russia ratified the convention on January 27, 1999. The convention aims to coordinate criminalization of a large number...
30 Dec 2022 ( The National News ) In October, Iraq’s acting finance minister Ihsan Jabbar shocked the world by announcing an investigation into $2.5 billion that had gone missing from Iraq’s General Commission for Taxes, a department in the Ministry of Finance. It was described as the heist of the...
04 Jan 2023 ( BBC ) When it comes to abuse and corruption on Chinese fishing vessels in Ghana, Bright Tsai Kweku has seen it all. He has seen Chinese crew treating local fishermen like "slaves", he says. "They beat them, they spit on them, they kick them," Mr...
05 Jan 2023 ( The National News ) An Iraqi judge who is an ally of a powerful militia leader has summoned Justice Minister Khaled Shawani after accusations that he blocked a corruption investigation, the country's anti-corruption agency said on Wednesday. Judge Haider Hanoun, who leads the agency...
03 Jan 2023 ( News.am ) The Armenian government plans to adopt a new Anti-Corruption Strategy soon, Minister of Justice Grigor Minasyan told Armenpress when asked what anti-corruption actions or legislations are planned for 2023. “The fight against corruption is a continuous process,” Minasyan said. “It is planned...