Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht SA agreed to pay US$50 million to NGO and charities as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that its subsidiary bribed public officials in two projects financed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the IDB Group, which is the leading source of development finance for Latin America and the Caribbean, said in a statement on Wednesday.
Reporting is getting more and more dangerous each year, with a total of 1,350 journalists killed worldwide since 1992, according to Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
The son of Lithuania’s first president’s widow was sentenced on Friday for tax fraud in a criminal case launched after OCCRP’s Lithuanian partners exposed his property in Florida and illegal possession of some 400 thousand dollars.
Organized crime is to be blamed for the Amazon deforestation and that’s a transnational problem, Brazilian Attorney General said on Monday at the start of a two-day meeting with Eurojust.
Vietnamese authorities accused a former information minister and his successor of taking more than US$3 million in bribes in exchange for signing and implementing a suspicious contract with state-owned telecom, MobiFone, local media reported on Tuesday.
Iraq’s media regulator shut down the U.S.-funded Arab-language Alhurra TV on Monday for three months, saying its reporting was biased and defamatory. The move came after the station aired a report alleging corruption in both Sunni and Shi’ite religious communities in Iraq.
Saudi Arabia remains determined to fight corruption and will now target public servants, the new Anti-Corruption Commission chief, Mazen Al Khamous, announced to the mediaon Sunday. The kingdom’s controversial purge started in 2017, when authorities locked up hundreds of rich Saudis, including princes.
Sudanese authorities arrested Omar Al-Bashir’s former office manager on Sunday after the ex-president told the court during his corruption trial that he received some of the disputed money through him, local media reported.
The Tajik government has issued instructions on how the nation’s youth should behave when using the Internet, urging young people to be patriotic when posting content on social networks, to spell their names right, to use their real photos with no “extremist” facial expressions, and not to lie about their gender.
After allegedly receiving a WhatsApp message in the middle of the hearing, a senior judge in Pakistan's special anti-narcotics court said he was removed from the trial against an official of the party of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Wednesday Express Tribune reported.