The Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nominated Irina Bokova, currently Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as a candidate for the post of United Nations Secretary-General, according to a news release by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Feb. 9.
Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), warned Ukraine’s government to “act now” to improve governance and fight corruption or risk losing out on critically-needed funding.
Transparency International (TI) says it will impose social sanctions on the world’s nine most symbolic cases of grand corruption as voted by the public in its new campaign, Unmask the Corrupt.
On Tuesday, Italian police arrested fugitive Camorra boss Alessandro Giannelli and several members of a group connected to a clan of the Camorra known as the Moccia, according to a statement on Feb. 9 from Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano.
Nikita Kulachenkov, a Russian opposition activist and ally of anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny, may be about to be released after spending two weeks in detention in Cyprus at the request of the Russian Federation, according to Navalny’s blog. Russia has been seeking his extradition, reported Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
Cybersecurity firm, Group-IB, published a report detailing how cyber criminals accessed terminals of a Russian foreign exchange (FOREX) trading system and made trades worth more than US$ 400 million in February 2015.
Four Ukrainian citizens have been charged with the attempted murder of Alexey Petrov, a former employee of the Bulgarian National Security Agency and controversial businessman.
Jerome Cahuzac, former budget minister under President Francois Hollande, appeared in court Monday to face charges of alleged tax fraud and tax evasion, according to the Guardian.
Two high-ranking Lithuanian officials have now resigned over a scandal about buying food for the poor at outrageous prices.
The Romanian Court of Accounts initiated 675 criminal cases against individuals suspected of defrauding the state of public funds in the past decade, reported Romanian public news agency Agerpres. The cases, added together, amount to a total of € 2.1 billion (US$ 2.3 billion) in damages.