Carrying photos of slain investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia and banners that labeled Prime Minister Joseph Muscat as “the 2019 most corrupt man in the world,” hundreds of people protested in Valletta against corruption on Sunday, the Newsbook outlet reported.
Two months after he resigned over a scandal involving forged documents regarding family investments and his children’s university admissions, prosecutors on Tuesday indicted former South Korean Justice Minister Cho Kuk and his wife for bribery and other charges, Reuters reported.
Authorities in Dhaka have made a Sweden-based investigative journalism website inaccessible in Bangladesh soon after the outlet published a report alleging that one of the country’s most influential ministers was corrupt, Al Jazeera reported Thursday.
A landmark whistleblower protection act Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky signed in October entered into force on Wednesday, Kyiv-based news agency UNIAN reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Wednesday he will seek immunity from corruption charges, effectively delaying his trials until after the elections scheduled for March, when he expects to get a majority coalition to protect him from prosecution.
An Angolan court ordered on Tuesday assets of the eldest daughter of the former president to be frozen as part of a corruption case the government launched against her, her husband and a bank CEO, the country’s news agency Angop reported on Tuesday.
After having detected contract irregularities and theft in the Sudan's Ministry of Religious Affairs and Endowments, Minister Nasreldin Mofreh announced that a special team of investigators will comb the department dealing with endowments and pilgrimages to Mecca, the Dabanga news outlet reported on Monday.
Two assassins killed on Sunday Colombia’s top prosecutor on the street in the city of Cali, southwest of Bogota, according to Colombian Reports.
Ethiopian Federal Attorney General charged 50 people with corruption and abuse of office in relation with the construction of a dam on the Blue Nile river, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported Sunday.
A Slovakian court sentenced a middleman in the murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiance Martina Kušnírová to 15 years in prison on Monday, marking the beginning of a judicial process seen by some as a test of the strength of the court system against the interests of the rich and politically connected.