3 Charged With Corruption in Pakistan’s Punjab
Three officials were arrested Sunday on charges of corruption and misuse of authority in Gujranwala, a city of some 2.25 million in the Punjab province of Pakistan, the Daily Times reported.
Three officials were arrested Sunday on charges of corruption and misuse of authority in Gujranwala, a city of some 2.25 million in the Punjab province of Pakistan, the Daily Times reported.
In the wake of an OCCRP report detailing unsavory links between Madagascar’s government and its voracious rosewood traders, the World Bank is contesting conclusions that its policies are helping to facilitate the region’s illegal logging boom.
Influential Russian citizens including politicians and executives of state-owned companies received residence permits in Hungary through the country’s controversial residency bond program, according to a joint investigation by two OCCRP partners, Hungary’s Direkt36 and Russia’s Novaya Gazeta; and Hungarian news site 444.
Former Arkansas State Senator Jonathan E. Woods was sentenced on Wednesday to 18 years and four months in prison for organizing and leading a bribery scheme, The US Justice Department announced.
The head of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission was barred on Tuesday from re-entering Guatemala, where he was conducting several high-level investigations including against President Jimmy Morales.
Brazil’s federal police filed a report Wednesday requesting corruption charges to be raised against President Michel Temer, which could lead to his suspension from office, the Associated Press reports.
EU authorities warned of serious weaknesses in the bloc’s money laundering controls after serious scandals fuelled concerns over illicit funds entering in the European banking system, the Financial Times reported.
A Kyiv court gave the Prosecutor General’s Office access to the cell phone records of an investigative journalist who is a witness in a case against the head of Ukraine’s anti-corruption body suspected of having leaked data about the unlawful enrichment of the country’s top prosecutor.
In the wake of the fire that immolated Brazil’s oldest and most important scientific museum, Brazilians are blaming neglect, corruption, and lavish World Cup spending for the destruction of a collection of 20 million artifacts.
The UK will deport a Ghanaian citizen and former UBS trader to his native Ghana, seven years after the man was sentenced for illegal trading that cost the Swiss investment bank some US$2.25 billion.