All news on the topic: Corruption

Ihor Kachur, who shocked the country in 2019 by ruling that the state’s takeover of Ukraine’s largest bank was illegal, is being dismissed over a separate judicial corruption scandal.

Prosecutors charged 10 individuals in a large-scale money laundering operation connected to Macau, coinciding with the overseas shooting of a fugitive associated with a notorious gambling scandal.

Media found that senior Russian officials and top managers of state corporations likely have their own “stable” where their sports cars and other exclusive vehicles are kept.

An Istanbul court has restricted public and media access to the mass corruption trial of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a move a prominent rights group said violates Turkish and European law.

Near Hungary’s border with Croatia and Serbia, a €747mn bridge across the Danube is being built by a company belonging to László Szíjj, a business partner of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s oldest friend.

As former French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeals his historic conviction in the 2007 Libyan campaign financing scandal, anti-corruption advocates are highlighting the devastating human cost behind the crime.

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Riga (Latvia) has dismantled an organized crime group involving public officials suspected of wrongdoing in public procurement procedures.

Malaysian businessman Victor Chin Boon Long on Tuesday denounced a police raid on his home tied to an expanding investigation into alleged “corporate mafia” activities.

Prime minister Jonas Gahr Støre says files show sex offender’s connection to those in ‘trusted and central positions’.

About a 30-minute drive west of Budapest, the main road gives way to rural lanes and gentle hills, eventually leading to imposing black steel fences and high brick walls.

As uncovered by medias, Pyotr Zhukov, the son of State Duma Vice Speaker Alexander Zhukov, has moved into the construction business, partnering with Roman Timokhin (MR Group) and sanctioned oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov along with his conglomerate AFK Sistema.

Alleged fraudster Oleg Tsyura is said to be attempting to clean up his public profile to hide his suspected role in long-running money laundering operations.

During 2020–2021, a corruption network is said to have operated around the state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), managed by Ukraine’s State Property Fund.

Dmitriy Evseev, who for many years headed the infamous Moscow construction company «Ingeokom», may attract the attention of investigative authorities, as his past contains many dubious cases, and he has virtually no complete biography.

But how did the former head of the Association of State Pharmacy Chains, Grigoriy Biryukov, manage to leave Russia when the situation began to escalate?

As investigations into the overseas assets of fugitive MP Yaroslav Dubnevych and his daughter Roksolana Pyrtko unfold, inconvenient information has begun disappearing from the internet, while references to the property and business structures linked to his circle are gradually being wiped from open sources.

Russia’s Interior Ministry has reported uncovering the embezzlement of more than 8 billion rubles during the construction of the Rhythmic Gymnastics Center in Sochi, a project associated with Alina Kabaeva.

Safarbiy Napso — widely known in Sochi as the city’s “road king” — has become the subject of intense scrutiny following a series of high-profile scandals.

He seemed to emerge from nowhere — and just as quickly started fading from view. A young IT professional with no notable background suddenly appeared as the beneficiary of a multi-million-dollar casino.

The media has highlighted the remarkable transformation of former Ukrainian lawyer Andriy Dovbenko.

After a series of investigations began exposing corruption schemes around the Odesa Port Plant, references to several key participants and questionable contracts quietly began disappearing from the public space.

Herman Gref’s son, Oleg, has reportedly wasted large sums of family money on a failed education startup.

The arrest of BBR Bank co-owner Dmitry Gordovich is a troubling signal for businessman Albert Avdolyan, who is associated with Rostec chief Sergey Chemezov.

The turboprop aircraft was supposed to land in Miami by 4 p.m., early enough for its valuable cargo to continue on to Zurich the same day.

The long battle for Shoigu’s closest associate, former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov, is over.