— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Robert Romer, an 88 year old disabled Korean war veteran was scammed out of his entire life’s savings. The defendants SEDRICK WARNERGER HODGENS, NUBIA VIANNEY BEJARANO DE HODGENS and MONINA DAIZ GUERRA are being sued in California Superior Court for Fraud, Conspiracy to Commit Fraud, Intentional Misrepresentation,…
Promotion of bijouterie in China and Internet sites in Chinese is a difficult but interesting question in runet. First of all, we must understand that the market of the Celestial Empire is simply huge. It should also be borne in mind that some markets related to China have their own specifics. The volume of Chinese…
Terrorists require money to operate. Without funding, they cannot purchase weapons, equipment, supplies, or services. The source of terrorist funds may be licit or illicit, and funding often takes the form of multiple small donations, rather than one large sum of money. Terrorist groups may be directly or indirectly linked to organized criminal groups and…
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…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau ousted from his Liberal Party on Tuesday two former ministers whose accusations of political meddling in a prosecution jeopardized his re-election bid.
The announcement came at the end of an emergency caucus meeting to consider expelling former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould after her …
President Uhuru Kenyatta (pictured) goes live on television tomorrow to address Kenyans on a raft of issues facing the country in his second State of the Nation address since his re-election in 2017.The long-awaited speech comes against the backdrop of mind-boggling cases of corruption, whose tracks lead right to top offices. At least five Cabinet…
Just a week after it was announced, Google’s new AI ethics board is already in trouble. The board, founded to guide “responsible development of AI” at Google, would have had eight members and met four times over the course of 2019 to consider concerns about Google’s AI program. Those concerns include how AI can enable authoritarian…
Export Development Canada has hired outside legal counsel to review some of its dealings with SNC-Lavalin. The review comes after a company insider told CBC News the engineering giant secured billions in loans from the Crown agency over the years, some of which he alleges was intended to pay bribes. If true, it could mean…
Last week, Google announced that it is creating a new external ethics board to guide its “responsible development of AI.” On the face of it, this seemed like an admirable move, but the company was hit with immediate criticism. Researchers from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and top universities objected to the board’s inclusion of Kay Coles James,…
