27 May 2023 ( The Canberra Times ) US authorities have arrested two suspected Chinese government agents in connection with an alleged plot to disrupt the exiled anti-communist Falun Gong spiritual movement. John Chen and Lin Feng were charged with scheming to revoke a New York-based Falun Gong...
29 May 2023 ( Casino ) Joseph Muscat, the former prime minister of Malta — who was forced out of office following the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia — is facing a new scandal involving a different casino. Media outlet Times of Malta has found that he once received...
26 May 2023 ( Foreign Policy ) Another Tick in the Autocracy Column? Guatemala, Central America’s most populous country at over 17 million people, will hold presidential and parliamentary elections next month. A drumbeat of evidence of democratic backsliding has preceded the vote. Last week, the top-polling presidential contestant became...
28 May 2023 ( Buffalo News ) It’s said that all politics is local. Yet it often seems that all political corruption investigations are federal. To be sure, bribery and misappropriation can usually be punished under state law. For example, the New York Penal Law punishes over...
27 May 2023 ( France24 ) The charge, the first to emerge from the years-long investigation, is for passive corruption and was confirmed by France's financial crimes prosecutors (PNF). Temarii is a former president of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). But he was forced out in 2010 after being implicated in a...
07 May 2023 ( English News CN ) An Iranian court upheld the jail sentences issued in 2021 against a former governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) and his deputy for "disrupting" the country's economic system, Mizan news agency of the Iranian judiciary reported on...
15 May 2023 ( The Guardian ) A former investment manager for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints says that the organization stockpiled more than $100bn in funding intended for charity work but never spent it on such projects. “It was really a clandestine hedge fund,”...
25 May 2023 ( APNews ) Nearly five years after he was arrested at a South African airport, Mozambique’s former finance minister has lost a last-ditch court appeal and faces extradition to the United States over a $2 billion corruption scandal related to loans to Mozambican state-owned...
16 May 2023 ( BBC ) A top businessman whose foreign companies were part of a global money laundering investigation is a major donor to the Conservative Party. Javad Marandi, who has an OBE for business and philanthropy, can be named after losing a 19-month legal battle with...
16 May 2023 ( Reuters ) The head of Ukraine's Supreme Court was dismissed from his post on Tuesday after being detained in a bribery investigation which anti-corruption authorities cast as their biggest-ever case. Kyiv has redoubled efforts to clamp down on corruption despite Russia's invasion, and doing so...