Switzerland’s Federal Police Office (Fedpol) deported two Italian citizens suspected of involvement in organized crime in 2019, marking the first time individuals have been forcibly expelled from the country on national security grounds because of their alleged ties to the mafia, according to German-language newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Pope Francis urged Christians on Tuesday to stay close to the Holy Spirit because the worldly spirit leaves them unable to separate good from bad and makes them prone to corruption - something the pontiff described as “worse than sin.”
The International Weightlifting Federation, IWF, denied on Monday allegations made by German broadcaster ARD a day earlier that some medal-winning athletes had bribed officials to conceal doping or hired doppelgangers who would be tested in their place.
Russian state lender VTB has sued a Mozambican government company over an unpaid loan that is part of a US$ 2 billion multinational fraud scandal known as “tuna bonds,” which plunged the Mozambique into deep financial crisis, Reuters reported Monday.
Egyptian authorities said on Saturday that they have arrested the head of the country’s tax agency and that he is suspected of having taken bribes from accountants.
Carrying photos of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and banners that labeled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as “the 2019 most corrupt man in the world,” hundreds of people protested in Valletta against corruption on Sunday, the Newsbook outlet reported.
Two months after he resigned over a scandal involving forged documents regarding family investments and his children’s university admissions, prosecutors on Tuesday indicted former South Korean Justice Minister Cho Kuk and his wife for bribery and other charges, Reuters reported.
Authorities in Dhaka have made a Sweden-based investigative journalism website inaccessible in Bangladesh soon after the outlet published a report alleging that one of the country’s most influential ministers was corrupt, Al Jazeera reported Thursday.
A landmark whistleblower protection act Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed in October entered into force on Wednesday, Kyiv-based news agency UNIAN reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday he will seek immunity from corruption charges, effectively delaying his trials until after the elections scheduled for March, when he expects to get a majority coalition to protect him from prosecution.