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'100-million bribe' in Bishimbayev case: court delivered a verdict
Tengrinews.kz - A woman was convicted in Astana for offering to reduce the sentence of Kuandyk Bishimbayev for 100 million tenge.
28 October 2024
Kazakhstan jails international expo organiser for corruption
Kazakhstan sentenced a former minister to 14 years in prison for embezzling millions while heading Kazakhstan's preparations for EXPO-2017.
13 June 2016
China sets death penalty threshold in graft cases
Corruption cases involving three million yuan ($463,000) or more may incur the death penalty in future.
18 April 2016
Kazakhstan crushes on bribery in high-profile case
Ex-deputy Governor, advisor to the Governor and several businessmen were found guilty in a corruption scandal that rocked Kazakhstan.
18 April 2015
Third of surveyed Kazakhstanis do not believe in combating corruption
A third of the surveyed Kazakhstanis do no believe in the effectiveness of combating corruption in Kazakhstan.
17 September 2014
Kazakhstan toughens punishment for corruption
The new Kazakhstan Criminal Code that will enter into force next year introduces a tougher punishment for bribes.
29 August 2014
Argentine vice president appeals corruption charges
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 July 2014
Corruption in Kazakhstan is a major obstacle to FDI: MP
Bribe is the only way to obtain a public service in Kazakhstan, MP Tursunbek Omurzakov said quoting Transparency International.
05 June 2014
Iran hangs man convicted of $2.6 bn bank scam
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 May 2014
India wins Italy appeal over helicopter deal
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 May 2014
Guatemala ex-leader gets six years in New York
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 May 2014
Israel ex-PM Olmert gets 6 years jail for bribery
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 May 2014
F1 boss Ecclestone's bribery trial starts in Germany
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 April 2014
Formula One boss faces bribery charges in German trial
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 April 2014
Fourth officer charged in US Navy bribery scandal
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 April 2014
'Letters to father' deepen Uzbek first daughter mystery
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 April 2014
Chinese general charged with graft: media
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 April 2014
Nigeria arrests two Britons over 'oil theft plot'
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 March 2014
Intermediary of Vice-Minister bribe case has millions of dollars in his bank accounts
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 December 2013
Kazakhstan Vice-Minister of Agriculture arrested over bribery
Muslim Umiryayev, Kazakhstan's Vice-Minister of Agriculture, has been arrested on bribery charges.
23 December 2013