8 Oct 2022 (The Guardian) With the surrounding noise on human rights, worker deaths, image laundering and the rest, it is easy to forget what Qatar 2022 is really all about, the founding message at the very heart of this global festival of football. Which is, of...
22 Sep 2022 ( Independent ) It should have been simple for Magnus Carlsen, or at least as simple as a top-tier chess game can be. When the world chess champion sat down across from 19-year-old American Hans Niemann at the Sinquefield Cup earlier this month, he had the benefit...
23 May 2022 (Transparency International) The sport sector is alarmingly vulnerable to sextortion, and sport organisations must urgently address the hierarchies, systems and cultures that drive and cover up this abuse. This article addresses the sensitive topic of sexual violence and may be upsetting to some readers. Reader...
21 Sep 2022 (Caixin Global) Shanghai’s former top cop was sentenced to life in prison for corruption Wednesday, the same day the ex-police chief of Chongqing was sent away for 15 years, state media reported. Gong Daoan, 58, Shanghai’s former deputy mayor and head of the city’s public...
21 Sep 2022 (Los Angeles Times) Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian defense contractor knows as “Fat Leonard” who fled home arrest in San Diego this month, was arrested Tuesday morning in Venezuela as he was about to board an airplane at the Caracas international airport, according to...
18 Sep 2022 (The Guardian) European Commission proposes withholding funds as it awaits ‘gamechanger’ reforms from Orbán government The EU’s executive arm has proposed suspending €7.5bn in financing for Hungary, as it awaited potential “gamechanger” anti-corruption reforms from Budapest. The EU and Hungary have been at loggerheads for months, with...
15 Sep 2022 (OCCRP) Videos from an apparent sting operation show high-ranking Congolese political adviser Vidiye Tshimanga offering access to the country’s minerals in exchange for a cut. The makers of the videos have refused to identify themselves. Key Findings: Congolese presidential adviser Vidiye Tshimanga promised to win mining...
10 Sep 2022 (The Guardian) Public official Robert Telles arrested over death of Jeff German, who had reported bullying and favoritism in Telles’s department. In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas criminal underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people. The...
06 Sep 2022 (OWP) Violence, tension, police corruption and brutality do not stop in Mexico. In a New York Times article published last Tuesday by Steve Fisher and Maria Abi-Habib titled “Mexico City Declared Police Abuse Over. Reports of Misconduct Kept Rising,” the two authors reported one...
06 Sep 2022 (The Guardian) Leonard Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering $500,000 in bribes to navy officers to steer work to his shipyards. A Malaysian businessman who pleaded guilty in the US navy’s worst corruption scandal has escaped house arrest in San Diego after cutting off...