Former Rio Governor Admits to Bribing Olympics Officials
The former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, pled guilty on Thursday to spending US$2 million on bribes to secure the 2016 Summer Olympic Games for his city.
The former governor of Rio de Janeiro, Sergio Cabral, pled guilty on Thursday to spending US$2 million on bribes to secure the 2016 Summer Olympic Games for his city.
In a Thursday press release, British Prime Minister Theresa May took it upon herself to call on other European countries to help the Western Balkans confront problems of weak governance and organized crime.
Wolf of Wall Street producer Riza Aziz plead not guilty on Friday to charges that he illegally received nearly $250 million in public funds.
Police searched Paris-based Renault’s headquarters on Wednesday as part of an investigation that links the carmaker’s former chairman and a luxurious Marie Antoinette-themed wedding at Versailles Palace.
Like its neighbor to the south, Canada has become a target of foreign actors hoping to influence its national elections, a Toronto Star and Buzzfeed News investigation revealed Tuesday.
Rooting out Ukraine’s deeply-entrenched corruption is a top priority, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a speech in Toronto on Tuesday.
Italian authorities seized last week nearly €84 million (US$94,816,680) as part of an investigation into the so-called ‘carousel fraud,’ a cross-country VAT avoidance scheme that costs the EU some €50 billion ($56.4 billion) per year, according to the European Parliament.
The Chicago police department announced on Wednesday the arrest of 170 people during ‘Operation Independence’, a precursor to Fourth of July festivities.
Less than a month after the government of Moldovan Prime Minister Vladimir Plahotniuc resigned, allowing a new coalition to take power, the country’s new Premier Maia Sandu said her first task is to “muck out the state.”
A Montana man plead guilty on Tuesday to defrauding a Canadian financial institution of US$43 million by convincing it to lend him the money after he lied about his business.