27 Aug 2023 ( Radio Free Europe ) Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy says corruption can be equated with treason and he will ask parliament to increase penalties for people found guilty of corruption during wartime. "I have set a task for the legislation and the Ukrainian legislators...
26 July 2023 ( AP News ) The Vatican prosecutor asked a court Wednesday to convict 10 people, including a cardinal, of a range of financial crimes, sentence them to three to 13 years in prison and order the confiscation of some 415 million euros ($460...
22 Aug 2023 ( BBC ) Nigeria's former oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences in the UK. She is suspected of accepting financial rewards for awarding multi-million dollar oil and gas contracts. A key figure in ex-President Goodluck Jonathan's administration, she also served as...
24 Aug 2023 ( CNBC ) Two founders of Tornado Cash, the widely known Russian cryptocurrency mixer, have been charged with laundering more than $1 billion in criminal proceeds. In a newly unsealed indictment, Roman Storm and Roman Semenov have both been accused of sanctions violations and laundering...
18 Aug 2023 ( New York Times ) Can an intellectual on an anti-graft crusade win the presidency in a nation sliding toward authoritarianism? Guatemala is about to find out. Bernardo Arévalo had been enjoying a quiet and predictable life for nearly a decade with his family in...
19 Jul 2023 ( U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ) Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated one individual, Jordan “Orce” Kamcev, in North Macedonia pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14033. Today’s designation underscores the United States’ continued commitment to...
15 Aug 2023 ( The Guardian ) At the last military checkpoint before he exited Ukraine in April, a 39-year-old man from Odesa handed over papers showing he had a serious spinal injury, thus exempting him from military service and from the ban on adult men leaving the country. “One...
14 Aug 2023 ( The National News ) Nearly 400 international suspects have been arrested on charges of money laundering in the past two years, the Ministry of Interior has announced. The ministry on Monday said it had received 521 complaints of money laundering crimes in 2021 and 2022, which...
15 Aug 2023 ( BusinessToday ) Institution has failed to deploy any of money reserved to fight graft on the continent The African Development Bank has admitted that a $55mn integrity fund launched with great fanfare seven years ago has still not been put into operation and has...
06 Aug 2023 ( Reuters ) Iraq plans to ask Interpol to issue international alerts seeking the arrest of former senior officials including an ex-finance minister and an ex-intelligence chief over the suspected theft of more than $2.5 billion from the country's Tax Commission. The scandal centres on...