25 Feb 2023 ( Aljazeera.com ) Surya Darmadi, one of Indonesia’s biggest palm oil tycoons, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and ordered to repay the state the equivalent of $2.6bn for his role in a corruption scheme that caused the deforestation of thousands of...
23 Feb 2023 ( Ghanaweb.com ) Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh has been charged with money laundering, embezzlement and illicit enrichment, the state news agency says. Public prosecutor Judge Raja Hamoush has also filed charges against Mr Salameh's brother Raja and an adviser, according to the National...
28 Jan 2023 ( Ghanaweb.com ) The United States of America government has challenged the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led administration to tackle corruption in Ghana. In a speech delivered at the United Nation Human Rights record review in Geneva, Switzerland, the US rep said that the government was...
21 Feb 2023 ( LA Times ) Mexico’s former top law enforcement official — once tasked with fighting the country’s drug cartels — was convicted in New York on Tuesday of taking millions of dollars in bribes from traffickers. Genaro García Luna, who headed Mexico’s federal police before...
23 Jan 2023 ( Aljazeera ) Former Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz has gone on trial, accused of amassing an illicit personal fortune during his 11 years in power. Aziz, a 66-year-old former general, appeared in court on Wednesday in the capital, Nouakchott, along with nine other...
07 Feb 2023 ( ICIJ ) Two Haitian millionaires accused by Canada of corruption and enabling murderous gangs to run rampant across the long-suffering island nation were helped for years by U.S. lawyers and bankers to buy offshore companies and such luxuries as a multimillion-dollar ocean-view home...
12 Feb 2023 ( Guardian ) Turkish authorities have issued more than 100 arrest warrants over collapsed buildings, amid warnings that the death toll from the earthquake that struck parts of Turkey and Syria could double from the current tally of 33,000. State media reported that at least 12 people...
18 Feb 2023 ( Iran International ) Iranian media and economic experts are characterizing a privatization plan the officials keep secret as "a plunder of public property" and "economic apartheid." According to reports, the new privatization plan approved by the heads of the three powers of the government,...
13 Feb 2023 ( Reliefweb.com ) The Taliban takeover in August 2021 led to the dismantling of the nascent human rights regime in the country and the reinstatement of the 1964 Constitution, resulting in the recrudescence of Sharia Law, which accords no protection to many minority groups....
16 Feb 2023 ( ABCNews ) Investigators in Mexico said Wednesday they have found evidence of more corruption in the country’s health regulatory agency. The agency, the Federal Commission for the Prevention of Health Risks, said in a statement that 11 employees had been fired because of the allegations. It was...