— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Few issues are more contentious in today’s Latin America than Venezuela and its multifaceted crisis, marked on 30 April by a sudden and short-lived uprising. On one side are governments supportive of chavismo, the movement established by Venezuela’s late president, Hugo…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News OFAC designated several Mexican officials, individuals and entities pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act and Executive Order 13818 (Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption). In coordination with other U.S. agencies and Mexican counterparts, OFAC applied sanctions to: Mexican…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News MADRID (Reuters) – A prosecutor in Madrid said on Tuesday it has accused soccer player Diego Costa of income tax fraud in 2014 worth just over 1 million euros for money made from image rights. Costa is accused of illicitly receiving income…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Humala is the first former president to be indicted in relation to the affair, which has embroiled a number of other former heads of state. Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht has admitted to paying US$29 million dollars in bribes in Peru between…
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…
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,…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Several things lay behind the rise of democracy in the region. One was the waning of the cold war. Another was the economic failure of most of the dictators. And democracy was contagious. One country after another in Latin America put down…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News As prosecutors and police officers explained they had an arrest warrant, the former president excused himself to go call his lawyer. He stepped into his bedroom. A single gunshot rang out.Hours later, after an unsuccessful operation to try to save him, he was pronounced…
— Anti-Corruption News Story Curated by Anti-Corruption Digest International Risk & Compliance News Peru’s public prosecutor indicted former president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia on Tuesday for allegedly laundering assets, as part of the wide-ranging Odebrecht corruption scandal. Former Peru president Ollanta Humala and his wife Nadine Heredia are accused of laundering assets…
