From BivolAviora Consult, the legal firm servicing Delyan Peevski’s businesses and hiring high-level lobbyists to defend him against Magnitsky Act measures in the USA, has received over 19 million BGN from Peevski himself, from a company he owns and from tobacco producer Bulgartabac. Attorneys Sasho...
From OCCRPAustria’s former vice chancellor and leader of the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) went on trial on Tuesday in Vienna for helping change a law in order to accommodate the owner of a private hospital in exchange for a donation to his party and a...
From Transparency InternationalCountries in the European Union (EU) are known for being wealthy, stable and democratic. However, this clean image is undermined by issues ranging from regional inequality and erosion of the rule of law to corruption problems.Transparency International’s (TI) new Global Corruption Barometer –...
From BalkanInsight In a new anti-corruption action that started with arrests on Wednesday, Croatian police and anti-corruption investigators have launched an investigation into associates of former Zagreb mayor Milan Bandic, including the director of Croatian Radiotelevision, HTV, Kazimir Bacic. Croatia’s anti-graft body, USKOK, reported on Thursday that...
Two years ago, the offices of Chicago's 34th Ward's Alderman, Carrie Austin, were raided by federal authorities. Allegedly, Austin and her top aid received home improvement perks from a prospective real-estate developer. The improvements are said to include custom cabinetry, granite countertops, plumbing and HVAC...
From Reuters:On 21 June, Maltese Prime Minister, Robert Abela, announced the country has been placed on the Financial Action Task Force's (FATF) greylist. FATF is the world's money laundering and terrorism financing watchdog. This move places them on the same list as Syria and Zimbabwe.The...
From Reuters: U.S. President Joe Biden and NATO said in mid-April they would pull out the roughly 10,000 foreign troops still in Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York that prompted the mission. The United Nations...
Few companies will understand how vital the fishing industry is as UNISHKA does. Because we are based in Southeast Alaska, fishing is part of our way of life: the schools our children attend revolve around fishing season; many families in our community rely on the...
Archer Daniels Midland Co sold a grain storage plant worth millions of dollars for $250,000 to Sonny Perdue (pictured above) weeks after then-President Donald Trump tapped him to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.ADM, one of the world's largest...
South Africa’s highest court sentenced former President Jacob Zuma (pictured above) to 15 months in jail on Tuesday for failing to appear at a corruption inquiry, and gave him five days to appear before police.Zuma failed to appear at the inquiry led by Deputy Chief...