— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The relative success of Indonesia’s first simultaneous presidential and legislative elections – the world’s most complicated single-day polls – has been marred by allegations of fraud by the opposition, and the deaths of hundreds of overworked election officers. These bumps in the…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News South African scientists have hatched a plan to bribe penguins to build a new colony in the De Hoop Nature Reserve, 232 kilometres from Cape Town. Called the African Penguin Relocation Project, it is run in partnership by BirdLife South Africa and CapeNature.…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The Oregon office of the FBI issued an advisory this week on an ongoing scam that has resulted in losses totaling tens of millions of dollars. The office posted an advisory, “Building a Digital Defense Against the Chinese Embassy Scam,” based on…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Nigeria’s High Court on Tuesday ordered five top football bosses to face trial for corruption, as they are accused of stealing millions of dollars intended to develop the game in the country. Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) president, Amaju Pinnick, and four fellow…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Police in Israel are preparing documents to have a Kenya-based firm charged over bribery, a move that could give the ongoing fight against corruption a new dimension. Shikun and Binui, the parent company of Solel Boneh International (SBI) Holdings, is alleged to…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News South Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, is due back in court, hoping that judges will throw out hundreds of corruption charges against him. Zuma is accused of fraud, money laundering and racketeering, but he says it is all part of a political…
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed to continue his crackdown against corrupt officials, in a tough speech ahead of his second term in power. “My frustration is that we cannot move faster in prosecution and punishment of corrupt persons,” Buhari told state television, in an interview broadcast late on Monday. “We made some progress, we…
The District Court hearing the bribery case involving former government official Wilson Fung Wing-yip and Macau businesswoman Cheyenne Chan Ung-iok was told that the two defendants had been having a romantic relationship – “like that of a married couple” – that lasted for more than a decade. Fung, who was deputy secretary for economic development and…
Invisibility serves the abuse of power only too well in the continued struggle of ordinary Colombians. Thus, understanding the context of recent astounding events in this nation, post peace-accords, is essential, because it is illustrative of the difficult path to be traversed towards real peace and democracy. In June 2018 – when it looked like…
A Veterans Affairs Department official steered disabled veterans to questionable schools in exchange for bribes from school officials, according to the Justice Department. James King, the VA official in question, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to accepting about $160,000 in bribes. In return, law enforcement officials say, he directed participants in VA’s Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment…