— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News KABUL, Afghanistan — A former Afghan official has accused President Ashraf Ghani’s administration of engaging in widespread corruption, including the exchange of sexual favors for government posts, adding to a string of recent setbacks for the government. The accusations, leveled by Gen.…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Five years ago, the Indian people gave Narendra Modi the chance to realize his big promise: clean up the corruption in India. Today, Modi’s promise remains a promise. Corruption is still thriving in India, in all the usual places. That’s evidenced by a string of high profile scandals that…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News GENEVA (REUTERS) – North Koreans are forced to pay bribes to officials to survive in their isolated country, where corruption is “endemic” and repression rife, the United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday (May 28). Officials across North Korea extort money…
— 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…