— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Jacob Zuma‘s lawyers have alleged the former South African president is being treated unfairly by prosecutors amid a bid by the erstwhile leader to have corruption charges levelled against him dropped. Zuma, who resigned last year amid intense public pressure after nine scandal-plagued years in…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A mysterious letter, believed to be correspondence between the National Prosecuting Authority and the Hawks, surfaced late on Thursday at the ongoing application for a permanent stay of prosecution by former president Jacob Zuma. At the 11th hour on Thursday, advocate Muzi Sikhakhane…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The U.S. Justice Department took a win and a loss this week in its prosecution of an alleged $2 billion corruption scheme in Mozambique that destabilized the impoverished country’s economy. On Monday, a former banker at Credit Suisse Group AG became the…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News The Kenyan track team coach who was sent home from the 2016 Olympics was banned for 10 years Wednesday for seeking a bribe of $12,000 to help athletes beat doping tests. Michael Rotich was banned by the IAAF ethics board following a…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News A 53-year-old municipal manager at the Dihlabeng Municipality in the Free State, and a 51-year-old security company owner, have been arrested by the Hawks’ National Clean Audit Task Team on Wednesday morning on charges of corruption and fraud. The arrests come two…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s deputy president, David Mabuza, who has long been dogged by accusations of corruption, abruptly postponed the ceremony to swear him in as a lawmaker on Wednesday, casting doubt on his future as the country’s second in command. Just…
— 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,…
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 …
