01 Sep 2022 (The Guardian) Virginia Laparra detained in conditions ‘bordering on torture’, which critics say is retaliation for her efforts to fight corruption A Guatemalan anti-corruption prosecutor has been locked up for six months in conditions “bordering on torture”, as the country’s ruling elite pursues a strategy...
01 Sep 2022 (INDEPENDENT) Liu Yanping also expelled from Communist Party over ‘collapse of ideals and beliefs’. The Chinese government has sacked a top anti-corruption official after he was himself found guilty corruption. Liu Yanping, 67, who headed the investigation of corruption within the national security ministry has been expelled...
01 Sep 2022 (ABC News) A Malaysian court has sentenced former first lady Rosmah Mansor to 10 years in prison after she was convicted of soliciting and receiving bribes during her husband's corruption-tainted administration. The verdict came a week after Najib Razak was imprisoned over the massive looting of the 1MDB state...
19 Aug 2022 (MSN) Mexican federal prosecutors said they had arrested the country's former Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam amid charges he mishandled investigations into the disappearance of 43 students in 2014. On September 26, 2014, the young men studying at a rural teacher training college in Ayotzinapa...
18 Aug 2022 (Vanguard) The Lagos State Judiciary says it has commenced an investigation into reports of corruption by some of it’s officials. A statement issued by the Acting Chief Registrar, Mr T.A. Elias said the state judiciary is aware of the trending online news of unprofessional conduct...
17 Aug 2022 (Belfast Telegraph) A former board member of the Tokyo Olympics organising committee and three people from a clothing company that was a surprise sponsor of the 2020 games were arrested on suspicion of bribery on Wednesday. Haruyuki Takahashi, a former executive at advertising company Dentsu,...
17 Aug 2022 (FP NEWS) “Designed by the illustrious Italian design firm Nuvolari Lenard, the Lady M II sports a spectacular Art Deco prow figure in the form of a giant Jaguar,” the website clubyacht.net notes in an article on the roughly $60 million megayacht belonging to Russian oligarch Alexei Mordashov....
12 Aug 2022 (ALJAZEERA) Paraguay’s Vice President Hugo Velazquez Moreno has said he will resign following allegations of corruption by the United States. US Ambassador to Paraguay Marc Ostfield announced Friday morning that Velazquez was included in a corruption list for allegedly offering bribes to a public official. Velazquez has said he...
11 Aug 2022 (The Times of Israel) Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu filed a motion in the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday to dismiss the charges against him in Case 4000, claiming that the investigation into the corruption affair was severely flawed. On Wednesday, former Bezeq and Walla...
8 Aug 2022 (VOA News) The Anti-Corruption Bureau in Malawi has arrested its former director, Reyneck Matemba, for allegedly taking a bribe for a contract to supply food to the country's police service. John Suzi-Banda, the former director of Malawi's Public Procurement Agency was also arrested. Both...