Chinese Businessmen and Ex-Party Secretary Charged with Graft
The Chinese government’s anti-corruption efforts have now taken aim at Lai Xiaomin, 56, who was expunged from the Communist...
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Guatemala Ex-VP Jailed Over Massive Environmental Fraud
Guatemala’s Former Vice President Roxana Baldetti was sentenced to 15 years in prison for her part in a fraud that saw...
Ex-French President Nicolas Sarkozy Loses First Corruption Appeal
France’s ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy lost on Monday a first appeal against facing trial on influence peddling and...
Zimbabwe: State Electricity Officials Nabbed for Alleged US$35m Graft
Police arrested last week three top employees of Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), the state-owned electricity...
Pakistan Arrests Software Firm Head for Fake Diploma Scam
Pakistan authorities arrested last week the CEO of the software company Axact for selling fake online academic degrees worth...
Guatemalan Anti-Graft Crusaders Win “Alternative” Nobel
Two Guatemalan anti-corruption activists - one who was forced to resign and one whom President Jimmy Morales barred from...
U.S. Convicts Woman Involved in Jamaican Lottery Scam
A court convicted a Rhode Island woman for her participation in a Jamaican lottery fraud scheme, which has affected about...
Paradise Leased: The Theft of the Maldives
How Paradise Was Carved Up And Sold
In just 18 months, corrupt officials in the Maldives handed swathes tropical islands to developers in no-bid deals, and then...
Nigerian Email Scammer Gets 5 Years in Varied Frauds
A Nigerian man whose email scams aimed to defraud businesspeople from Singapore to Switzerland out of millions of dollars...
Morales Bars Anti-graft Investigator from Entering Guatemala
The head of a U.N.-backed anti-corruption commission was barred on Tuesday from re-entering Guatemala, where he was...
Ghanaian Man, Once Jailed for UK Fraud, Faces Deportation
The UK will deport a Ghanaian citizen and former UBS trader to his native Ghana, seven years after the man was sentenced for...
Duterte Orders Arrest of Senator Accusing Him of Graft
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Anthony Trillanes, an opposition senator and vocal...