A war of words erupted between top Kenyan politicians on Sunday over a new US$50,000 car that Kenya’s deputy president, William Ruto, attempted to gift to the nation’s new archbishop, Philip Anyolo, during his installation in January.
In a speech at a round table event organized by Kosovo Law Institute, the British Ambassador to Kosovo Ruairi O’Connell urged officials in the small Eastern European country not to allow Kosovo to “become a nest of corruption and organised crime.”
The same day the OCCRP revealed new evidence of the global extent of money laundering networks, the UK government dropped a scheduled debate on an amendment to the Financial Services Bill which would force greater transparency into the use of crown dependencies as tax havens.
Italian police struck a blow against the Sicilian mafia on Monday when it arrested more than 30 members of the crime syndicate across the country.
Several hundred journalists marched in the Croatian capital of Zagreb on Saturday in protest of the misuse of lawsuits against journalists as a means to pressure and censor them, the Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND) said on Monday.
An Egyptian military appeals court on Sunday upheld a five-year sentence for Hisham Genena, the former head of the Egyptian Anti-Corruption Authority, over an interview Genena gave to the Huffington Post in which he spoke of secret documents damaging to Egypt’s army and current regime.
Corruption and torture are decisively linked, and members of the Council of Europe need to move swiftly and effectively to “eradicate these threats to democracy, human rights and the rule of law,” the organization said last week.
Royal Dutch Shell is to be prosecuted in the Netherlands over alleged corruption in a US$1.3 billion Nigerian oil deal, a case already standing trial in Italy.
Italian police said they arrested on Saturday one of the country’s most dangerous fugitives, Camorra boss Marco Di Lauro, who was on the run for 14 years.
Andreas Neocleous, the founder of a Cypriot law firm which was found guilty of bribing a former deputy attorney general, acquired a stake in the Cyprus Mail, one of the few remaining independent media on the island. Almost immediately, the paper deleted its coverage of the bribery conviction from its website.