— 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…
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…
Reuters reported that Brazil’s Ministry of Agriculture officially banned three laboratories from conducting food inspections over their involvement in a food safety testing scandal that ensnared meatpacker BRF SA, according to decisions published in the official government gazette on Wednesday. The three laboratories run by Merieux NutriSciences Corp in Brazil, which performed testing on BRF products,…
According to the report, the Bank of Italy is joining other central banks in creating investment criteria that reward green actions in an effort to get banks and money managers to be more environmentally friendly. By the end of June, the new criteria will apply to about $8.9 billion in shareholdings. It will be extended to…