Tajikistan’s anti-corruption agency said on Tuesday it will not investigate the former head of a customs terminal, whom the President fired and publicly scolded in May for lying about his qualifications, amassing unexplained wealth and hiding money abroad.
The US Justice Department filed corruption charges this week against a Korean husbanding company CEO that resupplied and worked with American naval ships, including aircraft carriers.
A woman from Northern Ireland with a portfolio of luxurious properties worth US$3.8 million has been ordered to disclose the origins of her fortune, the National Crime Agency announced in a press release Wednesday.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin offered on Monday to approve the next round of free-election protests planned for Saturday on the condition that they be held in a less central location, a suggestion which organizers quickly rejected.
In a series of investigative articles published this week, Australian news outlets allege the Chinese president’s cousin was a part of an organized crime ring with ties to the Australian casino chain Crown.
A Chinese court sentenced a human rights activist to 12 years in prison for leaking state secrets while a Vietnamese court locked seven activists behind bars saying they “caused public disorder.”
Spain’s High Court has launched an investigation into the country’s second largest bank, Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA), suspected of bribery and of hiring a company to wiretap journalists, politicians and businesspeople, Deutsche Welle reported Monday.
Authorities in 29 countries joined forces and seized 18,000 items and arrested 59 people involved in the trafficking of cultural goods, Europol said on Monday.
How does an accidental president, who stumbled into power in the midst of a political crisis, who governs a country pummeled by some of the highest-profile corruption scandals on the continent, and whose efforts to pass sweeping judicial and political anti-corruption reforms have been repeatedly stymied by congress, restore the public’s faith in their government?
At least 57 people were killed, including 16 decapitated, when two rival gangs got into a fight and started a fire at a Brazilian prison early Monday morning, the Associated Press reported.