The Nordic countries - Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden - all considered the least corrupt countries in the world, according to the Corruption Perceptions Index, may lose that reputation in the light of recent scandals, Transparency International (TI) said in a statement Sunday.
A group led by the CEO of an Indian pharmaceutical company was convicted on Thursday for running a massive anabolic steroid distribution network, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) reported Friday.
Southeast Asian nations reached agreement Friday to jointly combat a rising methamphetamine trade in the region that has reached “unprecedented levels,” a UNODC news release states.
They say that those who can’t do, teach — but on Monday, federal authorities alleged that a Miami professor with expertise in organized crime played an active role in a conspiracy to launder approximately $2.5 million in dirty Venezuelan money.
A corruption scandal under the watch of former South African President Jacob Zuma was enabled by three international banks, a British lawmaker told a corruption commission on Monday.
Three days after authorities charged a senior Australian bureaucrat with pilfering more than AU$ 2.5 million (US$ 1.7 million), he was rushed in critical condition to a Perth hospital, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper.
Italian authorities seized a record amount of cocaine, worth an estimated €250 million (US$277 million), hidden among cases of bananas.
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), a successor agency to the Soviet KGB, could be involved in the disappearance of some US$450 million in cryptocurrency from one of the world’s largest online exchange platforms in the world, the BBC reported last week.
Lebanon’s authorities are employing defamation laws to silence journalists, activists, and other critics of their policies and corruption, as the country’s anti-government protests entered the fifth week, Human Rights Watch (HRW) reported Friday.
A former Russian minister charged in a major fraud case has lost millions of dollars in assets that have been seized by authorities who have taken legal actions against him since his March arrest, Russian-language online news outlet the Bell reported Thursday.