Brazil Police: Jailed Executive Involved in Medical Cartel
Brazilian authorities arrested last week Daurio Speranzini Jr. and 19 others for involvement in an international health-care cartel, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Brazilian authorities arrested last week Daurio Speranzini Jr. and 19 others for involvement in an international health-care cartel, Reuters reported Wednesday.
Two criminal organizations that laundered an estimated €2.5 million (US$2.9 million) were taken down by the Spanish Civil Guard and the National Police of Colombia, Europol reported Thursday.
Financial police in Rome said they arrested on Tuesday Gian Luca Apolloni, a purported top-level “fixer” named in the Panama Papers, as well as entrepreneur Roberto Lagana on charges of aggravated tax fraud.
The Moldovan government said on Wednesday it wants to strengthen its economy by offering foreigners citizenship in exchange for investments. Their goal is to attract 1.3 billion euros (US$ 1.5 billion) over the next five years.
Laura Codruta Kovesi, who was removed from her role as Romania’s chief anti-corruption prosecutor earlier this week, will continue her hardline fight against corruption in a new position, local media reported Thursday.
The head of compliance at Danske Bank, Anders Meinert Jorgensen, resigned Wednesday amidst a money laundering scandal that has been unraveling over the last four months.
Swiss mining conglomerate Glencore PLC issued a statement on Wednesday, saying it will cooperate with a U.S. corruption investigation into the firm’s activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, and Nigeria.
A Pakistani anti-corruption court sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison on Friday over a corruption scandal prompted by the Panama Papers and centered around several luxury London apartments, the BBC reported.
The man responsible for embezzling US$485 million from his employer and perpetuating the biggest bank corruption scandal in China’s history was repatriated from the United States on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Communist Party of China.
An official from the Saudi Arabian defense ministry was arrested Tuesday on charges of bribery along with two other unnamed individuals, Reuters reported.