United Kingdom officials successfully intervened to have the United States drop plans to prosecute HSBC for allowing narcotics traffickers and US sanction targets to move money through the bank, according to a US congressional report released Monday.
A Belgrade court on Saturday overturned an 11 year sentence against an associate of Serbian “Cocaine King” Darko Saric, ordering a retrial less than two months after a conviction against Saric was similarly quashed.
Organised crime gangs from Russia and former Soviet countries are on the rise in Germany, taking part in illicit activities with the potential to cause billions of Euros in losses, the country’s federal investigations chief has said.
Authorities in Russia have opened a criminal investigation against the former owner of Britain’s Reading Football Club on suspicion he embezzled a $156 million dollar loan from the local MTS Bank.
A court in the Vatican has convicted two people for leaking confidential church documents revealing alleged corruption and mismanagement in the Catholic church – but has acquitted journalists who wrote books based on the disclosure.
On May 12, 2016, David Cameron convened an anti-corruption summit with politicians, officials and civil society organizations to agree on how to fight corruption and improve accountability.
Secretary Kerry Joins British Prime Minister on Panel at Anti-Corruption Summit (Photo by: IIP Photo Archive)
Slovenian prosecutors have defended their decision to raid the country’s central bank in an investigation into a 2013 bank bailout, defying threats of legal action by European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi.
An investigation by OCCRP partner the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) has revealed evidence indicating that a Kazakh behind a multi-billion dollar banking scam secretly owned one of Belgrade’s most popular concert venues.
Russia’s deputy premier has bought apartments in an iconic Stalinist tower worth as much as US$10 million via an intermediary, anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny said on his blog Monday.
A court in Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled Monday that the banking agency of the autonomous Republika Srpska had acted illegally by withholding records on a failed local bank from the anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI), the organization said.