A former flight attendant working for the Russian Federal Emergency Management Ministry (MChS) used her connections, including a romance with the ex-Minister, to make more than US$100 million, Russian investigative website The Insider revealed on Thursday.
The Kyrgyz Interior Ministry says it is investigating an incident during a protest on Wednesday in Bishkek in which three men in plain clothes claiming to be police tried to stop journalists from filming them. One grabbed a phone from a reporter who asked for their identification papers.
The head of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption authority resigned on Wednesday, several months after he was first implicated in the country’s “ApartmentGate” scandal, in which several senior politicians were found by journalists to have purchased prize real estate far below market value.
South Africa’s Public Works and Infrastructure Ministry will begin implementing so-called “lifestyle audits” of its employees this month in a bid to curb the financial losses incurred by wasteful spending and corruption, media reported Thursday.
A shadow economy that is depriving the Tajikistan treasury of tax revenue accounts for up to 20% of the central Asian country’s total economy, the head of the country’s State Investment Committee said on Wednesday, blasting illegal activities by businesses for much of the problem.
A Chinese Communist Party inspection launched an investigation against the former chairman of China Development Bank (CDB), who is suspected of “serious violations of discipline and law,” Xinhua reported Wednesday.
Tajikistan’s anti-corruption agency said on Tuesday it will not investigate the former head of a customs terminal, whom the President fired and publicly scolded in May for lying about his qualifications, amassing unexplained wealth and hiding money abroad.
The US Justice Department filed corruption charges this week against a Korean husbanding company CEO that resupplied and worked with American naval ships, including aircraft carriers.
A woman from Northern Ireland with a portfolio of luxurious properties worth US$3.8 million has been ordered to disclose the origins of her fortune, the National Crime Agency announced in a press release Wednesday.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin offered on Monday to approve the next round of free-election protests planned for Saturday on the condition that they be held in a less central location, a suggestion which organizers quickly rejected.