11 Oct 2023 ( The Guardian ) The Caribbean state of Dominica has sold citizenship to thousands of individuals including a former Afghan spymaster, a Turkish millionaire convicted of fraud and a former Libyan colonel under Muammar Gaddafi, the first detailed examination of the country’s controversial “golden passports”...
12 Oct 2023 ( AA ) South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was indicted over corruption on Thursday. It came two weeks after a court rejected a plea by prosecutors to grant Lee’s arrest. Democratic Party chief has been accused of “breach of trust, bribery,” Seoul-based Yonhap News...
05 Oct 2023 ( AP News ) Indonesia’s agriculture minister resigned Thursday as the country’s anti-graft commission ramped up an investigation into alleged corruption at his ministry. The Corruption Eradication Commission, known as KPK, has alleged that there has been bribery linked to job promotions at the...
27 Sep 2023 ( Kyiv Post ) Currently, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau is investigating 86 criminal proceedings related to corruption schemes in the energy sector, where the opportunities for unscrupulousness run high. Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) Semyon Kryvonos said that NABU investigators are focusing...
27 Sep 2023 ( Essentially Sports ) Tennis is a game that is very well known for maintaining fairness and integrity among the players. However, there have been multiple cases when the players have breached the rules for which they have been provisionally suspended from the...
29 Sep 2023 ( News Yahoo ) The Ukrainian parliament has received a proposal to suspend the statute of limitations for corruption crimes for the duration of martial law in Ukraine so that corrupt officials cannot avoid punishment due to the expiration of the statute of...
01 Oct 2023 ( SCMP ) China’s anti-corruption drive has entered its second decade with more high-profile casualties, prompting questions about the systemic nature of the problem and the fact that the Communist Party has yet to find an effective cure to eradicate the disease. Tens of thousands...
24 Sept 2023 ( Independent ) Bob Menendez, the Democratic Senator of New Jersey is facing corruption-related charges for the second time in ten years. Last week, Menendez and his wife Nadine were charged with three alleged crimes. The charges stem from an indictment that alleges they accepted bribes in exchange for using his political...
24 Sept 2023 ( USA Today ) Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., is facing heavy pressure from Democratic and Republican colleagues to resign following a sprawling indictment that alleges the New Jersey Democrat accepted bribes and leveraged his position to engage in corruption. As the calls for him to resign...
19 Sept 2023 ( The Guardian ) Iraq is struggling with a “pandemic” of corruption, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al Sudani told the UN General Assembly on Friday. “Many international organisations have issued reports citing the spread of corruption in Iraq” he said. “We have diagnosed this disease...