— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The story is told of how a frog was placed in a pan full of cold water. The frog immediately liked its new home. But slowly the water temperature was raised. The frog gradually adjusted to the incremental heat. Finally, the…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Kenyans must return their 1,000 shilling ($10; £8) notes to banks by 1 October, in a bid to fight money laundering, counterfeits and corruption. New banknotes are to be brought in over the coming months with other denominations being phased out…
— 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 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…
Security authorities in the Dominican Republic have deported a French national, boss of a network accused of laundering money coming from drug trafficking activities between Spain and Morocco. The French, Michel Pierre Vincent Loubet, had been arrested last week alongside four other Spanish nationals in the northern part of the Central American country. The operation…
In a statement on Saturday, Eze said the former president did not ask for or receive any bribe in regards to the controversial OPL 245 oil deal. Documents reportedly filed at a London court by the federal government had claimed Jonathan and Diezani Alison-Madueke, his former minister of petroleum resources, broke the law for making a…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) Partnership Against Corruption Initiative (PACI) held its Bi-Annual Community meeting in Switzerland between the 21-22nd of May. The above topic was discussed by WEF’s Global Shapers who shared their perspectives of the young generation on anti-corruption. I…
