Move follows army chief’s pledge to launch anti-fraud crackdown as protesters continue to demand political overhaul. Algerian authorities have arrested five billionaires as part of an anti-corruption investigation, State TV reported. Issad Rebrab, the founder and chairman of Cevital, Algeria’s biggest privately held company, was arrested on Monday alongside four brothers from the Kouninef family.…
Honduras’s frail democratic institutions, combined with systemic corruption, intensify the drivers of transnational migration to Mexico and the United States. Over the last decade, political leaders in Honduras actively eroded the separation of powers, increased authoritarian repression of dissent, and fueled public cynicism about the legitimacy of democracy in the country. In addition, recent corruption…
European Agency for Financial Intelligence and Anti-Corruption, under the direct supervision of representatives of the American government organization The Financial Security of Corporations, have uncovered more than 20 money laundering schemes in Europe over the past 3 months. The reports were transmitted to state supervisory authorities and the OSCE. “Money laundering” is not a legal…
Prosecutors portrayed U.S. President Donald Trump’s onetime campaign chairman Paul Manafort as a tax cheat who used offshore accounts to hide tens of millions of dollars from political work in Ukraine, as the first trial from a probe into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election got off to a quick start on Tuesday. Manafort lived…
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with corruption, in a dramatic fall from grace two months after he lost office. He pleaded not guilty to three counts of criminal breach of trust and one of abuse of power, and was freed on bail. Mr Najib is accused of taking $700m (£517m) from…
Brazil’s jailed former leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, could gain partial freedom within five months following a court decision on Tuesday to reduce his sentence in one of two corruption convictions. The popular politician began serving a 12-year prison sentence a year ago on a corruption and money-laundering conviction for accepting a luxury…
In late October 2017 an entry appeared relating to an apparent raid and attempted theft of Ukrainian military land by the cast of usual suspects (Trukhanov, Lampochka Galanternik, Alexander Zhukov etc) in Odessa appeared. Genadiy Trukhanov To be fair to Mayor Trukhanov, clearly he was not leading this particular criminal incident – his historical and…
As has often been said, forex fraud is global by nature, and neither knows nor respects any national boundaries. Since regulators must adhere to the rule of law, which often stops at a national boundary, no jurisdiction is immune. Yes, cooperative agreements are in place between the major regulatory entities on the planet, but then…
Mohammad Zahoor today announced the sale of the Kyiv Post to well known Odessa businessman Adnan Kivan. Since then the blog email has swelled with inquiries about Mr Kivan. Ergo a singular response is probably the easiest solution. The activities of his well known construction group Kadorr are easily found on the internet. To be…
Over the past few years, human rights organizations and the media have received many complaints from representatives of European and Russian businessmen in regard of the fact of corruption in the Russian state body FAS (Federal Antimonopoly Service). We have looked into 10 facts of corruption and certainly, we are not going to keep silent. …
