03 Feb 2023 ( Rapid City Journal ) Most of the world continues to fail to fight corruption with 95% of countries having made little to no progress since 2017, a closely watched study by an anti-graft organization found. Transparency International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the...
27 Jan 2023 ( France24 ) Bernard Laporte on Friday resigned his role as president of France's rugby union federation after being convicted of corruption, the sports minister said. "I can confirm that Bernard Laporte has resigned," Amelie Oudea-Castera told reporters after a meeting of the federation's top officials. Laporte,...
26 Jan 2023 ( NBC News ) A cellphone video shared widely on social media shows a woman jumping up and down as she unwraps a gift. Inside the box is a red piece of paper, which she waves at the camera in excitement. “It’s a permit for...
18 Jan 2023 ( The Guardian ) Ten Chinese players have been charged with match-fixing offences by snooker’s governing body, the WPBSA, whose chairman Jason Ferguson described the situation as “heartbreaking”. All 10 players currently suspended from the World Snooker Tour have been deemed to have cases to answer by...
23 Jan 2023 ( The Guardian ) Ukraine’s deputy infrastructure minister, Vasyl Lozinskyi, has been detained and dismissed from his post for allegedly stealing $400,000 (£320,000) intended for purchasing aid, including generators, according to Ukraine’s state anti-corruption detectives and prosecutors. After the news emerged, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy,...
23 Jan 2023 ( nytimes.com ) Prosecutors say Charles McGonigal, who was chief of counterintelligence in the city, took payments from Oleg Deripaska to investigate a rival Russian oligarch. A former high-level F.B.I. official has been indicted on charges that he conspired to violate U.S. sanctions on Russia...
21 Jan 2023 ( Africa News ) Son of Equatorial Guineas president, Ruslan Obiang Nsue, has been arrested and placed under house arrest on suspicion of selling a plane belonging to the country's national airline, state television (TVGE) said Tuesday. At the end of November, the authorities had...
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...