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Bribery and corruption

  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Glencore
    Ex-Glencore employees set to face charges over Africa corruption

    UK attorney-general Victoria Prentis expected to make decision by July 31

    A Glencore sign
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Billionaire under sanctions could get $300mn in controversial US-Congo deal

    Washington proposal would ease restrictions on Israeli tycoon Dan Gertler imposed over alleged corrupt dealing

    Dan Gertler
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Belgium will not charge Moroccan suspects in Qatargate probe

    Decision by judicial authorities is latest setback for investigation into claims of corruption in European parliament

    Flags at the European Parliament building
  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Adidas AG
    Adidas investigates bribery allegations in China

    Senior managers accused of receiving millions of euros in kickbacks

    Front of an Adidas store in Shanghai
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Singapore
    Singapore secures last conviction in $2bn money laundering case

    Tenth Chinese national pleads guilty in scandal that put spotlight on financial hub’s embrace of foreign wealth

    Wang Dehai
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Brazilian politics
    The judge behind the drive to bury Latin America’s biggest corruption probe

    Dias Toffoli infuriates campaigners by helping dismantle legacy of ‘Car Wash’ investigation in Brazil

    Dias Toffoli
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Brazilian politics
    Brazil’s supreme court overturns ‘Car Wash’ corruption convictions

    Reversal of high-profile rulings comes as country backtracks on graft probe

    José Dirceu, a leftwing politician and longtime ally of president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silv
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Vietnam
    Vietnam appoints man behind corruption crackdown as president

    Public security chief To Lam’s appointment comes amid anti-graft crusade that has sparked political turmoil

    To Lam speaking at the National Assembly
  • Thursday, 16 May, 2024
    German politics
    Germany probes far-right MP accused of taking Russian bribes

    Petr Bystron’s properties and offices raided as Bundestag lifts his immunity from prosecution

    Petr Bystron
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    Europe Express
    How Sánchez appealed to the heart to save his face — and his wife’s Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Why Venice is charging visitors to enter

    Pedro Sanchez. left. and his wife Begoña Gomez
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Spanish politics
    Spanish PM considers quitting as wife faces corruption investigation

    Pedro Sánchez says he will announce decision on his political future next week

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wrote: ‘This attack is unprecedented and so serious and so crude that I need to stop and reflect with my wife’
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Spain
    Wife of Spanish PM investigated for alleged corruption

    Judge opens preliminary probe into allegations of influence peddling by Begoña Gómez

    Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and his wife Begoña Gómez
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    Ex-MoD employee sentenced to 30 months in prison in Saudi corruption case

    Jeffrey Cook found guilty last month of receiving more than £70,000 in kickbacks in cash and cars

    Southwark Crown Court logo on court building
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    Vietnam
    Vietnamese property tycoon sentenced to death over $12bn fraud

    State media says Truong My Lan’s crimes eroded public trust in ruling Communist party

    Truong My Lan
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Venezuela
    Venezuela arrests former Maduro allies in oil corruption probe

    Ex-oil minister Tareck El Aissami among those accused of engaging in ‘economic conspiracy’

    A handout photo from Venezuela’s public prosecutor’s office shows Tareck El Aissimi being detained by members of the National Anti-Corruption Police
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Energy sector
    Era of bribes is over, say commodities trading chiefs

    CEOs of Trafigura, Vitol and Gunvor say they have learned lessons from the 2010s scandals

    From left, Gunvor co-founder and chair Torbjörn Törnqvist, Vitol CEO Russell Hardy and Trafigura CEO Jeremy Weir
  • Wednesday, 3 April, 2024
    Money laundering
    Swiss private banker charged with stealing dirty money from own client

    Case is latest in a series of scandals exposing the enduring legacy of secrecy in Swiss banking

    Swiss Federal Criminal Court building in Bellinzona, Switzerland
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    Russia
    Pro-Russia oligarch accused of running influence operation in EU

    Czech and Belgian authorities say Viktor Medvedchuk was paying politicians to peddle Kremlin propaganda

    Viktor Medvedchuk, right, with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in 2020
  • Thursday, 28 March, 2024
    Trafigura
    Trafigura bribery details laid out in $127mn guilty plea agreement

    US prosecutors say trading house paid Brazilian officials to keep its business with state oil group

  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    Bank Audi SAL
    Swiss find Lebanon’s biggest bank guilty of serious money laundering breaches

    Finma uncovers millions of francs in unexplained payments by Banque Audi to senior political figures

    Man walks past Bank Audi cash machines
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    South Africa
    South Africa’s parliament speaker takes ‘special leave’ over corruption probe

    Opponents say position of ANC’s Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is ‘untenable’

    Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    Vietnam
    Vietnam names Vo Thi Anh Xuan interim president as corruption purge deepens

    Scandals and resignations cast doubt over Communist party succession plan

    Vo Thi Anh Xuan in front of a Vietnamese flag
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Vietnam
    Vietnam’s political turmoil deepens as president resigns

    Ruling Communist party says Vo Van Thuong stepped down over rule ‘violations’ and other unspecified shortcomings

    Vo Van Thuong next to the flag of Vietnam
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    Vietnam
    Corruption purge and tycoon’s $12bn bank fraud trial shake Vietnam

    One of world’s biggest embezzlement cases is part of crackdown that could upset foreign investment

    Truong My Lan arrives at a court in Ho Chi Minh City on March 5
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    White collar crime
    Two men acquitted of corruption in Saudi defence contract case

    Ex-MoD employee guilty of misconduct in long-running UK Serious Fraud Office case

    The Serious Fraud Office logo on a smartphone
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