Philippine President Orders a National Corruption Probe
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has ordered his country’s Department of Justice to pursue a government-wide probe of corruption.
Rodrigo Duterte, the president of the Philippines, has ordered his country’s Department of Justice to pursue a government-wide probe of corruption.
A majority of Europe’s largest banks are relying on tax havens to stash their profits, despite the fact that in some cases, these firms don’t have a single employee working where these earnings are booked, a new report released on Tuesday by Transparency International EU revealed.
On average, a sexual offense is reported to the police in the European Union every two minutes, be it rape, sexual violence or assault, Europol said Tuesday in a statement.
Online scams are increasing globally, with €36 billion (US$42.58 billion) lost in 2019 alone, Scamadviser data warned Tuesday in its latest report.
The British government will be returning a 4,000-year-old Sumerian plaque believed to have been looted during the US invasion of Iraq that began in 2003, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Khadimi said in a Tweet Friday.
Twenty countries across Asia, Africa, and South America are missing out on as much as US$2.8 billion in tax revenue from Facebook, Apple, and Google alone, new research by the organization ActionAid revealed on Monday.
The job of Greece’s top anti-corruption prosecutor, Eleni Touloupaki, is hanging by a thread.
A Malaysian subsidiary of Goldman Sachs pleaded guilty Thursday to charges in a scheme to pay more than US$1 billion in bribes to Malaysian and Abu Dhabi officials to obtain lucrative business.
Kestas Komskis, the former deputy speaker of the Lithuanian parliament has been charged with embezzlement and intentional bankruptcy. Lithuanian law enforcement investigated Komskis after extensive investigations by OCCRP’s Lithuanian member center Siena.lt.
Kyrgyz law enforcement officers on Thursday arrested Kamchybek Aslanbek, alias Kamchybek Kolbayev, one of the Kyrgyzstan’s top organized crime bosses.