A court in Zagreb sentenced on Monday Croatian former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to six years and the CEO and chairman of Hungarian energy group MOL to two in prison in a new chapter of a corruption case that has been dragged through Croatia’s courts for a decade, Reuters reported.
A Chinese court sentenced the former chairman of a bank to a death for corruption and embezzlement of millions but gave him a chance to turn the sentence into life in prison if he behaves well in jail over the next two years, the South China Morning Post reported on Friday.
Brazil's President signed on Wednesday a new anti-crime bill which introduces harsher punishments for corruption, gang violence and organized crime.
Russian security forces raided the Moscow-based headquarters of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) on Thursday, dragged its founder and leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny out and confiscated technical equipment from the office, Reuters reported.
An Islamabad court ordered on Tuesday a 13-day custody for an opposition lawmaker who was detained a day earlier over his alleged role in corruption linked to a construction project. Opposition claims this was another episode in the government’s crackdown against political opponents.
UK authorities have put a Chinese man behind bars for renting out hundreds of properties to gangs to be used in prostitution, drug trafficking and human smuggling.
Malaysia’s state prosecutor told media on Friday that he still plans to bring Goldman Sachs executives to court over their role in the country’s biggest corruption affair ever, even though the Wall Street bank is reportedly close to reaching a settlement with the US.
The phrase food crime usually entails mixing watermelon and lentils or decorating a glass of milk with hot dogs. But an organized crime group in Spain may have given it a new meaning when it poisoned 27 people with illegally poached clams.
Italy’s police said Friday that 334 mafia-linked suspects were detained in an early Thursday morning operation that was conducted simultaneously in four countries. Among the suspects are prominent politicians, lawyers, accountants and a police chief.
Eight months after she was appointed as Mexico’s first ever Chief Anticorruption Prosecutor, Luz Mijangos Borja has opened 680 investigations, an “impressive” early track record considering the challenges she faced, said a US-based blog covering the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.