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Kazakhstan sentenced a former minister to 14 years in prison for embezzling millions while heading Kazakhstan's preparations for EXPO-2017.

• 13 июня 2016, 16:17

Corruption cases involving three million yuan ($463,000) or more may incur the death penalty in future.

• 18 апреля 2016, 14:35

Ex-deputy Governor, advisor to the Governor and several businessmen were found guilty in a corruption scandal that rocked Kazakhstan.

• 18 апреля 2015, 17:02

A third of the surveyed Kazakhstanis do no believe in the effectiveness of combating corruption in Kazakhstan.

• 17 сентября 2014, 20:12

The new Kazakhstan Criminal Code that will enter into force next year introduces a tougher punishment for bribes.

• 29 августа 2014, 18:32

Argentina's Vice President Amado Boudou filed an appeal against charges of corruption allegedly carried out during his time as finance minister from 2009 to 2011.

• 11 июля 2014, 12:10

Bribe is the only way to obtain a public service in Kazakhstan, MP Tursunbek Omurzakov said quoting Transparency International.

• 05 июня 2014, 12:13

An Iranian businessman convicted of masterminding a $2.6 billion banking scam, the biggest fraud case in the country's history, was hanged on Saturday, state media reported.

• 24 мая 2014, 14:46

India on Friday partially won an appeal against an Italian court order rejecting its request to recover bank guarantees over a scrapped helicopter deal at the centre of a bribery scandal.

• 24 мая 2014, 11:25

Former Guatemalan president Alfonso Portillo was sentenced in New York to five years and 10 months in prison Thursday for a $2.5 million bribery scandal.

• 23 мая 2014, 12:56

A Tel Aviv court on Tuesday sentenced Israeli ex-premier Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for accepting bribes linked to a major property development in Jerusalem, media reports said.

• 13 мая 2014, 14:28

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone went on trial in Germany Thursday accused of bribery in a case which threatens a jail term for the Briton who has controlled the motor sport for four decades.

• 24 апреля 2014, 14:39

Formula One magnate Bernie Ecclestone faces bribery charges when his trial begins in Munich on Thursday in a case which threatens to end his reign.

• 22 апреля 2014, 13:00

A fourth US Navy officer has been charged with leaking information to a foreign defense contractor in exchange for cash and other gifts in a widening bribery scandal, officials said Thursday.

• 18 апреля 2014, 13:10

The appearance of rambling letters said to have been written by Uzbekistan's once all-powerful first daughter Gulnara Karimova has heightened the mystery over her astonishing fall from grace in the ex-Soviet state.

• 02 апреля 2014, 10:45

A top Chinese military officer has been formally charged with corruption after he was exposed as owning dozens of homes, gold statues and luxury liquor, state media reported Tuesday.

• 01 апреля 2014, 10:19

Two British nationals were among 14 people arrested on suspicion of attempted bribery in connection with an alleged plot to steal oil from a pipeline, Nigeria said.

• 29 марта 2014, 10:45

The intermediary who gave the bribe to Muslim Umiryayev, Vice-Minister of Agriculture of Kazakhstan, has millions of US dollars in his bank accounts.

• 23 декабря 2013, 19:01

Muslim Umiryayev, Kazakhstan's Vice-Minister of Agriculture, has been arrested on bribery charges.

• 23 декабря 2013, 16:02

China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun was given a suspended death sentence Monday for "especially huge" bribery.

• 09 июля 2013, 12:01