Prosecutors say Tao Liming, the former head of the Postal Savings Bank of China, has been charged with bribery, embezzlement and corruption.

Wang Zongnan, a retired Communist Party official and former head of one of China’s largest food groups, has been charged with taking bribes and embezzling money, according to The Australian.

Media mogul Dan Voiculescu has been sentenced with a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering and fraudulent privatization of the Food Research Institute (ICA), worth about €7.7 million.

Former chess world champion Garry Kasparov has lost his bid to become president of the World Chess Federation after a contentious election that involved President Vladimir Putin and allegations of bribes and corruption.

Two members of parliament have resigned after admitting to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) that they accepted prohibited political donations from the same prominent Newcastle developer.

China’s Ministry of Public Security is targeting more than 150 Chinese “economic fugitives” living in the United States as part of its anti-corruption efforts.

Alisa Bivens, a 42-year-old former foreign program director of International Adoption Guides Inc., (IAG) has pleaded guilty to bribing Ethiopian officials and submitting fraudulent documents to the US State Department.

An investigation of former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide for corruption, money laundering, and drug trafficking, all effected supposedly through the Aristide Foundation for Democracy is heating up.

Ever received an email that started like this? “It is with a heart full of hope that I write to seek your help in the context below. I am Mrs. Maryam Abacha, the wife of the former Nigerian Head of State, late General Sani Abacha … I have no doubt about your capacity and goodwill to assist me in receiving into your custody (for safety) the sum of US$30M willed and deposited in my favor by my late husband.”

A Supreme Court panel has ordered a retrial of the Talansky affair, in which former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was originally acquitted on corruption charges.