Ukraine Promises IMF-backed Anti-Corruption Legislation by February
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed on Tuesday to replace a languishing anti-corruption bill with a new draft that will establish a special anti-corruption court.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko vowed on Tuesday to replace a languishing anti-corruption bill with a new draft that will establish a special anti-corruption court.
Britain announced on Monday the creation of a new National Economic Crime Center (NECC) to crack down on money laundering, which is estimated to cost taxpaying households in the United Kingdom US$ 340 each year.
Thousands protested in Ukraine on Sunday demanding the impeachment of President Petro Poroshenko and the release of Georgian ex-leader Mikheil Saakashvili from detention, Reuters reported.
A Pakistani anti-corruption court on Monday declared the country’s Finance Minister an absconder after he repeatedly failed to appear before judges in a graft case associated to the Panama Papers leaks.
An Argentine federal judge indicted ex-president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner for treason and other charges related to allegations that she covered up Iran’s possible involvement in a 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, according to Reuters.
On Thursday POLITICO named Slovenian investigative journalist and OCCRP partner Anuska Delic on their list of 28 “doers, disrupters and dreamers who will in transform European life, politics and ideas."
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) voiced concerns over the fraying anti-corruption institutions of Ukraine in a statement on Wednesday.
A French judge on Thursday ordered Russian legislator and billionaire Suleiman Kerimov to post US$47 million in bail and relinquish his passport as part of an investigation into tax fraud and money laundering at Kerimov’s luxury properties on the French Riviera.
Ukrainian police faced on Tuesday a stand off in the arrest of Georgian ex-leader Mikheil Saakashvili, who is suspected of receiving money from a criminal group linked to ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, according to The New York Times.
She was called the “Mistress”.