Canada: Former SNC-Lavalin Exec Guilty of Graft
A Canadian court found the former executive vice-president of an engineering company guilty of paying off foreign officials in Libya and laundering money. The case even ensnared Canada’s government.
A Canadian court found the former executive vice-president of an engineering company guilty of paying off foreign officials in Libya and laundering money. The case even ensnared Canada’s government.
A Sudanese court found the country’s ousted President Omar al-Bashir guilty of corruption on Saturday and sentenced him to two years in jail, Aljazeera reported.
After they arrested her on Saturday for money laundering and fraud, Zimbabwe’s authorities accused on Monday the country’s Second Lady of also trying to murder her husband, according to the BBC.
A Kyrgyz court unfroze on Friday the bank accounts of two media outlets and a journalist after they were briefly blocked by a libel suit an influential family filed over an article that revealed their alleged involvement in a corruption scheme.
Lawyers representing a Swiss art dealer announced on Thursday that fraud and money laundering charges initiated against their client in Monaco by a Russian oligarch were dismissed.
Police in Ukraine have detained five people suspected of killing Belarusian investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet in a car bomb attack in July 2016, Reuters reported.
The new CEO of a Swedish bank plagued by money-laundering scandals told Estonian national TV that the bank had a poor management and that he plans to make changes on the top level.
Italian and French police have broken up a gang responsible for smuggling more than 1,000 illegal migrants into Europe over the past year.
A former senior Australian bureaucrat, who a month ago tried to kill himself after he was charged with corruption, is set to plead guilty, his lawyer told Australia’s ABC news on Friday.
Authorities seized 6.5 million Canadian dollars (US$4.9 million) worth of methamphetamine in a 16-month operation called Project Declass, according to a Tuesday press release by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.