Indonesia: Former US Exec Charged with Bribing Officials
An official with Alstom Power Inc. has pled guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for bribing Indonesian officials in connection with a US$ 118 million power project.
An official with Alstom Power Inc. has pled guilty to violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act for bribing Indonesian officials in connection with a US$ 118 million power project.
Four people, including two Vietnamese police officials, have been indicted in connection with a scheme to evade more than US$ 585,160 in taxes due on 12 cars imported into Vietnam.
Turkish police arrested 67 senior police officers Tuesday for illegal wire-tapping and spying on Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his cabinet in a wide-scale government sweep against supporters of his political rival, reports Reuters.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) have charged a suspended Canadian senator with 31 counts of fraud, bribery and breach of trust.
A plan by Macedonia’s prime minister to create tax haven zones has some critics afraid that the door could be opened to organized crime in the country.
The National Anti-Corruption Commission of Thailand has recommended legal action against former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, after finding her guilty of negligence for failing to stem corruption and losses in her rice subsidy program, reports Bangkok Post.
The president of Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Serb-controlled section, the Republika Srpska (RS) has called the chief US diplomat in Bosnia a “pathological liar and proven troublemaker” in response to a speech the diplomat made about corruption.
A Beijing court has sentenced a former senior regional official from north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to life in prison for accepting bribes, according to the official newspaper of the government of China, People’s Daily.
Graft has been blamed for an April 2013 building collapse in Bangladesh that killed more than 1,130 people.
UN monitors say Somalia’s president, its former foreign affairs minister, and a US law firm have conspired to divert and misappropriate Somali assets recovered overseas.