Bulgaria: Former Judge Jailed for Bribery
For the first time in the country’s recent history, a judge has been sent to prison for bribery in Bulgaria.
For the first time in the country’s recent history, a judge has been sent to prison for bribery in Bulgaria.
Israeli police are investigating a possible US$ 65 million fraud at the world’s largest diamond exchange in Ramat Gan, a city east of Tel Aviv, the Guardian reported.
A school board member has been arrested for allegedly helping to bribe the head of a credit union so that his son and others could control the institution to hide their illegal bitcoin exchange, Reuters said.
Georgia’s Constitutional Court ruled last week for law changes on surveillance, saying the current unrestricted access the security agency has to telecom operator networks is unconstitutional, daily news site civil.ge said.
A firm co-owned by Australian political strategist, Sir Lynton Crosby, allegedly accepted £45,000 (US$ 64,818) to work for a member of a Russian crime gang implicated in the death of anti-corruption whistleblower Sergei Magnitsky, BuzzFeed said.
A United States Attorney said that his office has opened an investigation related to revelations in the Panama Papers and asked the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) for more information, the Guardian reported.
On Monday morning, somebody threw hard objects and several eggs at the public office of President Gjorge Ivanov in Tetovo in northwest Macedonia, according to local Macedonian media.
Georgian state security services said Monday they’ve detained six suspects for allegedly trying to sell radioactive uranium-238 for US$ 200 million, local news site Civil.ge said.
Guatemala’s prosecutors allege former President Otto Perez Molina and ex-Vice President Roxana Baldetti are linked to another corruption scheme, this time over a contract for operation of a container terminal off Guatemala’s Pacific coast, BBC said.
Police arrested a Camorra clan leader on Saturday after disguising themselves as delivery couriers to get into his apartment, according to a news release from the Italian Ministry of the Interior.