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…
Luxury jewellery, designer fashion and perfume worth a combined £16m were bought from Harrods by a woman who has been hit with the UK’s first unexplained wealth order. Zamira Hajiyeva blew £600,000 in a single day at the London department store as part of a decade-long spending spree there, splashing out £30,000 on chocolates in one afternoon. The 55-year-old spent…
A recent survey commissioned by Shred-it, one of the UK’s leading information security companies and a Stericycle solution, has revealed a positive understanding and engagement with the principles of GDPR among SMEs on its first anniversary. The findings show that 72% of UK SMEs report being ‘very aware’ of its requirements. However, 60% reported that the…
A little over a year ago, amid the global furor over revelations that terrabytes of ostensibly personal Facebook data had been harvested by now defunct U.K. political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, Process Nerd mused — somewhat presciently, as it turned out — over what, exactly, might happen if the House ethics committee decided they needed to hear…