The corruption and self-enrichment that define Zimbabwe’s government has led to the formation of cartels across various economic sectors, including mining, energy, transport and agriculture, claims a report released on Tuesday.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) called on the international community to press Chinese authorities to immediately release seven journalists who were arrested for reporting on the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan a year ago.
Transparency International revealed on Tuesday that nearly three quarters of the world’s largest defence companies show minimum or no commitment to tackling corruption, wasting this way huge amounts of the nearly US$2 trillion of public money spent only in 2019 on militaries.
Spanish police arrested 38 suspected members of a so-called “Chinese mafia” involved in drug cultivation and trafficking across Europe, Spain’s Guardia Civil said in a statement on Monday.
Brazilian law enforcement expanded investigations on Friday into a criminal group involved in the sale of ecstasy - a drug increasingly present in the region that heralds shifting dynamics in the international drug trade.
Spain’s Guardia Civil last week arrested ten accused of operating a million-dollar pyramid scheme, including the alleged head of the operation who had reportedly posed as the illegitimate daughter of the former King.
Authorities in the Ivory Coast have detained four and rescued 42 in a sting against an alleged human trafficking operation that saw children put to work at several mines and cocoa plantations in the West African country.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded “not guilty” to bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a corruption trial that resumed Monday before the Jerusalem District Court.
An investigation by the Guardian claimed on Sunday that the Queen of the United Kingdom misused her position as formal head of state to pressure the country’s government into enabling her to conceal her private wealth from the public eye.