15 Jun 2022 (The Guardian) Opposition leader’s transfer to maximum security penal colony known for abuse follows secrecy over his whereabouts. The imprisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been transferred to maximum-security prison, according to the chairman of a prison monitoring commission. On Tuesday, Navalny was moved to the IK-6...
15 Jun 2022 (Asharq Al-Awsat) The Saudi Oversight and Anti-Corruption Agency (Nazaha) charged on Tuesday several individuals with corruption. A former Shura Council member was convicted of bribery. He was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison and fined 500,000 SR. Six citizens were also convicted of...
15 Jun 2022 (eurasia) Haydarov is said to have overseen the theft of more than $4 million. The fourth-largest city in Uzbekistan got a new mayor this week. The old mayor of Andijan, meanwhile, is facing charges of grand corruption. The downfall of Bahrom Haydarov may be a useful...
15 Jun 2022 (The Guardian) State capture is growing on every continent but only because the west helps to launder and hide money stolen by kleptocrats. Last week, John Penrose, Boris Johnson’s anti-corruption tsar, resigned in protest at his leader’s apparent breach of the ministerial code during Partygate. In January, Lord...
11 Jun 2022 (The Arab Weekly) It would be foolish to warn the Iraqi people against Moqtada al-Sadr. At this late stage, advice does not work. No one can claim not to know the truth about the man who was presented in a sectarian hue as the...
9 Jun 2022 (ALARABIA NEWS) Nearly $700 million in public funds has been misappropriated from state-run banks in Iraq in a scandal implicating more than 40 people, an anti-corruption commission said Thursday, after a three-year probe. A total of 926 billion Iraqi dinars ($697 million) went missing due...
7 Jun 2022 (USNEWS) The Vatican on Tuesday unveiled a committee to oversee the ethics of its investments, even as a corruption trial related to a botched London real estate deal in which it lost more than 200 millions euros continued. The committee will be headed by a...
3 Jun 2022 (ALJAZEERA) Alymkadyr Beishenaliyev is accused of involvement in a corrupt scheme linked to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines. Kyrgyzstan’s health minister, who recommended a poisonous root as a treatment for coronavirus, has been arrested following a corruption probe linked to the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines,...
2 Jun 2022 (Reuters) Tong Daochi, a former senior official of China's southern Hainan province and an ex-securities regulator, was sentenced to death for bribery and insider trading, with a two-year reprieve, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Thursday. Tong, also former China Communist Party secretary in...
25 May 2022 (OCCPR) China’s rosewood imports from Mali, one of its leading rosewood suppliers, have led to the devastation of Malian forests and served as a conduit for ivory smuggling, says a new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Global trade in rosewood, a category of highly valued...