06 Feb 2024 ( The New York Times ) Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed bribery and extortion charges on Tuesday against 70 current and former employees of the New York City Housing Authority, a sweeping indictment for a troubled organization. Damian Williams, the U.S. attorney for the...
28 Jan 2024 ( BBC ) Ukraine's security service says it has uncovered corruption in an arms purchase by the military worth about $40m (£31m). The SBU said five senior people in the defence ministry and at an arms supplier were being investigated. It said the defence officials...
14 Jan 2023 ( Business Insider ) China's military has undergone several significant leadership shakeups, and new intelligence reports indicate that corruption is running rampant in parts of the People's Liberation Army, specifically the prized rocket force, to the point that some of its missiles were...
13 Jan 2023 ( euractiv ) Italy’s hard right government is scrapping the crime of abuse of office, setting Rome on a collision course with Brussels over a law supporters say is essential to fighting corruption. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s coalition claims the offence deters mayors from...
08 Jan 2023 ( Washington Post ) The New York State Attorney General’s civil corruption case against the National Rifle Association, its longtime leader Wayne LaPierre and other defendants centers on alleged mismanagement that cost the nonprofit organization millions of dollars. The trial, which is scheduled for...
23 Dec 2023 ( Express.co.uk ) One of Vladimir Putin’s top generals in charge of Russia’s “Satan-2” nuclear weapons has been arrested. Lieutenant General Oleg Frolov, 61, was charged along with two other alleged co-conspirators. Frolov, who is the deputy director of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, has been accused...
20 Dec 2023 ( Financial Times ) Latvia’s former central bank governor was sentenced to six years in prison for bribery on Wednesday after a trial over the most prominent of a series of recent financial scandals to hit the Baltic country. Ilmārs Rimšēvičs, head of...
14 Dec 2023 ( NewsFirst.uk ) In a landmark bi-partisan move, the U.S. Congress has approved the Foreign Extortion Prevention Act (FEPA) as part of the annual defense spending bill. This new law will make it a crime for foreign officials to solicit or accept bribes from...
14 Dec 2023 ( france24 ) The cabinet crisis comes after allegations of kickbacks of 500 million yen ($3.4 million) in the faction-riven Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed the world's third-largest economy almost uninterrupted for decades. Media reports suggested that prosecutors were about to begin raiding offices and interviewing dozens...
Peruvian ex-President Alejandro Toledo has been sentenced to more than 20 years in prison, the latest Latin American leader to be jailed in connection with the Odebrecht construction firm corruption scandal. ...