UK: Organized Crime Active in World Sport, Official Charges
A quarter of world sport is controlled by organized crime, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) director general told a London conference on Oct. 7.
A quarter of world sport is controlled by organized crime, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) director general told a London conference on Oct. 7.
The former chief minister of the Indian southern state of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalitha Jayaram, was denied bail on Oct. 7 after a high court in the neighboring state of Karnataka said there was no reason to suspend her conviction, according to the BBC.
The US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been ordered to pay more than a million dollars in damages for failing to protect an informant who was kidnapped during an undercover operation in Colombia.
Cuba has sentenced Canadian businessman Cy Tokmakjian to 15 years in prison on corruption charges.
Britons should agree to more government surveillance of their emails and phone calls, reports The Guardian.
A Homeland Security official was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for demanding bribes including cash and several hundred egg rolls in exchange for favorable treatment for citizenship and residency applicants.
An English drug smuggler has been sentenced to prison after being caught watching a rugby match at a pub in Athens, Greece.
Authorities in Liechtenstein are probing possible money laundering by a Bulgarian businessman who already faces embezzlement charges in his home country.
Romania’s National Ant-Corruption Directorate (DNA) has filed a request to launch a criminal investigation into nine former ministers for bribery, money laundering and office misconduct over a Microsoft licensing contract, said the DNA.
A South African court has suspended the corruption trial of politician Julius Malema on September 30 because not all of the lawyers were present, pushing the trial to August 2015, reports BBC News.