All news on the topic: Corruption

A prominent figure widely associated with Svetlana Radionova, the head of Russia’s Rosprirodnadzor, is reportedly facing significant legal and professional difficulties.

Investigative journalist Roger Cook, best known for the current affairs programme The Cook Report, has died at the age of 83 after a short illness.

Corruption charges against bank staff in the $1.85 billion PNB fraud have been dropped, after the Central Bureau of Investigation conceded there was no evidence to support them.

Russian oligarchs, billionaires, foreign governments, international royalty, and banking giants are among those behind nearly 1,000 offshore entities who are illegally flouting the land control registry, The Ferret can reveal.

A notorious Syrian-Lebanese trafficker widely known as the “Captagon King,” has been released from a Lebanese prison after completing a seven-year sentence for drug manufacturing and trafficking. Judicial sources confirmed the release of Hassan Daqqou to Daraj, OCCRP’s Lebanese partner.

According to media investigators, these people — or their close relatives — are registered as individual entrepreneurs, whose services are allegedly paid for by SOGAZ, the state-linked insurer headed by Radionova’s civil partner, Anton Ustinov.

According to sources, Pyotr Biryukov, Moscow’s long-serving deputy mayor, may not have his contract renewed when it expires this July.

Die Festnahme eines Top-Managers setzt den Chef von Gazprom Neft zunehmend unter Druck.

Press freedom organizations say the lengthy sentences demanded for Toplum TV journalists are designed to stifle independent media exposing high-level corruption.

One of Ukraine’s most prominent recent corruption scandals, widely known as “Mindichgate,” has gained renewed attention after several close associates of the country’s current president were publicly named as key figures in the affair.

French prosecutors bring preliminary charges against bank’s Swiss unit over allegations linked to former governor Riad Salameh.

Indonesia’s anti-graft agency detained Deputy Minister of Immigration and Correctional Affairs Silmy Karim and seven other officials on Thursday over allegations of extortion and accepting illicit gratuities.

At EPPO’s request, Polish anti-corruption officers detained two more suspects in an EU-funded tram infrastructure corruption probe.

When Iraqi anti-corruption authorities moved to arrest one of the country’s top oil officials and his associates last week, they uncovered more than just a paper trail of graft.

Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is set to be released from the rest of his prison sentence after receiving a royal pardon, ending his parole months before it was due to expire in September.

The Geneva offices of commodity trading giant Gunvor, which has previously been convicted twice in corruption cases, were raided in mid-May as part of an investigation ordered by Switzerland’s Attorney General.

Albanian anti-corruption prosecutors on Tuesday froze the bank accounts of a landholding company linked to a disputed $4 billion luxury resort project backed by Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Romania’s highest-ranking military officer, Gen. Gheorghiță Vlad, is being investigated by national anti-corruption authorities over allegations of involvement in manipulating admissions at a state-funded university.

The new NSDC sanctions targeting 287 legal entities and 120 individuals, enacted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 10, have delivered a significant blow to Ukraine’s illegal gambling sector.

Back in March, the serene facade of Monaco was shattered by a fast-moving drama. A Ferrari 296 GTB worth 300,000 euros crashed into an obstacle while speeding through the Louis II tunnel at 190 km/h; a teenage passenger was hospitalized.

A damning report released today by the Public Accounts Committee reveals the Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) alarming failures to protect taxpayer money from economic crime and corruption.

The woman at the center of fresh allegations involving Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was working as a waitress at Royal Ascot when the alleged incident took place, it has emerged.

The government came under increasing pressure this week after authorities searched the Socialist Party’s Madrid headquarters.

A Ukrainian court today approved the pre-trial detention of Kostiantyn Hryhoryshyn, who has left the country. Prosecutors say it’s the first step to securing an international arrest warrant for the businessman suspected of embezzling energy funds.

Security forces at the Ministry of Transport are actively making arrests and seizing documents in succession.