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...
01 Jan 2023 ( OCCPR ) The Maldives Criminal Court sentenced the archipelago state’s former president to 11 years for accepting bribes and money laundering related to the leasing of an island for resort development, and ordered him to pay a US$5 million fine. Abdulla Yameen was the focus of an OCCRP investigation...
28 Nov 2022 ( Middle East Monitor ) The former head of Saudi Arabia's Public Security agency has reportedly been sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, in one of the latest anti-corruption cases ruled on in the kingdom. According to Prisoners of Conscience, a Twitter account which tracks and...