site.news_by_theme Corruption
Financial police holds international seminar on countering corruption
The international seminar called Experience exchange in development and effective implementation of measures/strategies for prevention of corruption is held in Astana on April 16-18, 2013.
16 April 2013
Corruption is srinking steadily in Kazakhstan: financial police
Kazakhstan finance police is holding an international anti-corruption seminar.
16 April 2013
Spain's main parties hit by scandals, crisis
Spain's two major political parties, the pillars of a democratic system re-born after the 1975 death of General Francisco Franco, face an historic crisis.
20 March 2013
Taiwan ex-president's prison term extended
Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-bian, jailed for corruption in 2009, has had his prison term extended by 18 months to 20 years due to a further bribery conviction.
24 February 2013
Shadow of corruption scandal looms over Spanish royal family
Spanish King Juan Carlos' son-in-law will be questioned Saturday by a judge investigating a corruption case as press reports make new revelations that cast a growing shadow on the entire royal family.
19 February 2013
Italy defence firm chief arrested for India bribes: reports
Italian police on Tuesday arrested the chief executive of aerospace and defence giant Finmeccanica for corruption and embezzlement in relation to alleged bribes given to the Indian government.
12 February 2013
Australian ministers dragged into corruption probe
Two senior Australian ministers have been dragged into a snowballing Labor party corruption scandal, admitting accepting hospitality from a former powerbroker at the centre of an explosive inquiry.
06 February 2013
Kazakhstan and Honduras show same corruption level
International non-government organization Transparency International published its annual report called Corruption Perceptions Index.
04 February 2013
China's military at 'high risk' on corruption: watchdog
China's armed forces are battling a major corruption problem, with little political oversight and no whistleblower mechanism to counter graft.
31 January 2013
S. Korea president's brother gets two-year jail term
A South Korean court on Thursday sentenced the elder brother of President Lee Myung-Bak to two years in jail after convicting him on corruption charges.
25 January 2013
Jackie Chan calls US 'most corrupt' country in the world
Hong Kong action hero Jackie Chan has once again provoked criticism, this time from an American blogger, after suggesting on Chinese television that the US is the "most corrupt" country in the world.
13 January 2013
Palestinian authority suspected of lobbying for Rakhat Aliyev’s relatives
US intelligence has established that Yasser Abbas worked with Devincci Hourani to pursue deals in Sudan for Caratube International Oil Company.
19 December 2012
Malaysia to teach lawmakers what is corruption
Malaysia's government will offer training to lawmakers to teach them how to avoid corruption, a key issue ahead of national elections that must be held by the middle of next year.
07 December 2012
China leader warns of 'collapse' at start of congress
China's president Thursday warned the Communist Party faces "collapse" if it fails to clean up corruption and called for an economic revamp as he opened a congress to inaugurate a new slate of leaders.
08 November 2012
Kazakhstan financial police mulls banning legal entities from cashing out money
Everyone understands that such big amounts of cash are often used for bribes, for dodging taxes and other compulsory payments into the budget: financial police.
29 October 2012
Boxer Klitschko brings star power to Ukraine vote
An excited crowd reached out to touch Ukrainian boxing star Vitali Klitschko as he went on the campaign trail for his corruption-busting party ahead of October 28 parliamentary polls.
19 October 2012
China bloggers expose more corruption: reports
Chinese officials have launched a probe after microbloggers said they had uncovered another allegedly corrupt leader who owns millions of dollars worth of property.
12 October 2012
Lula aides convicted of corruption in Brazil
Brazil's Supreme Court on Tuesday found former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's ex-chief of staff guilty of corruption in connection with a vote-buying scheme in Congress.
11 October 2012
Kazakhstan and China cooperate in suppression and prevention of corruption
Kazakhstan financial police and their Chinese counterparts have agreed to cooperate in countering corruption of customs officials.
26 September 2012
Taiwan's ex-leader Lee rejects corruption charges
Taiwan's ex-leader Lee Teng-hui on Friday defended himself in court against corruption charges stemming from his presidency between 1988 and 2000.
13 August 2012