site.news_by_theme Corruption

Kazakhstan has abolished its Financial Police. President Nazarbayev made the announcement.

• 06 августа 2014, 19:12

China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang is under investigation, the official Xinhua news agency said Tuesday, in a move targeting one of the ruling Communist Party's most powerful men.

• 30 июля 2014, 04:43

More than 30 police officers have been arrested in Mexico for alleged organized crime ties and possible involvement in the killing of fellow cops, authorities said.

• 28 июля 2014, 14:39

A nationwide anti-corruption movement Zhanaru was initiated in Kazakhstan in the beginning of this year.

• 27 июля 2014, 17:43

Turkish authorities arrested 55 senior police officers in a criminal probe over alleged corruption and abuse of office, the latest apparent crackdown on opponents of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan ahead of presidential polls.

• 22 июля 2014, 14:53

Corruption in the education system of Kazakhstan has been increasing lately in spite of all the measures taken to harness it.

• 16 июля 2014, 15:12

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

Nazarbayev have signed amendments to the law on ratification of the Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime.

• 06 июля 2014, 12:11

Madagascar's Prime Minister Roger Kolo has vowed to stamp out corruption after revealing that 40 percent of his country's budget is lost to graft.

• 05 июля 2014, 13:02

France's former president Nicolas Sarkozy has been charged with corruption and influence peddling, French prosecutors said Wednesday, a dramatic move in a criminal probe that could wreck his hopes of a political comeback.

• 02 июля 2014, 11:05

Nicolas Sarkozy was detained for questioning in a widening corruption probe, a judicial source told AFP, in an unprecedented move against a former French president.

• 01 июля 2014, 14:43

The head of a $2.0-billion Chinese copper producer fell to his death from a building, the firm announced Wednesday, and a state-run newspaper said he committed suicide following corruption allegations.

• 25 июня 2014, 16:55

Kazakhstan’s Prime Minister Karim Massimov considers that preventive methods are a more effective way of fighting the shadow economy and corruption rather than punitive measures.

• 25 июня 2014, 15:27

Spain's Princess Cristina, a sister of the new King Felipe VI, will discover Wednesday whether she faces the threat of an unprecedented criminal corruption trial.

• 25 июня 2014, 11:17

Three Chinese anti-corruption activists were sentenced to up to six and a half years in prison on Thursday, a lawyer said, the latest in their grass-roots movement to be jailed despite an official drive against graft.

• 19 июня 2014, 22:28

Nearly 300 billion tenge ($1.6 billion) has been embezzled in Kazakhstan since 2013.

• 06 июня 2014, 01:49

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 Ecuadoran court on Thursday sentenced exiled ex-president Jamil Mahuad to 12 years in jail for corruption.

• 30 мая 2014, 21:14

The OECD has arrived to Astana to monitor Kazakhstani legislation as a part of the Istanbul Anti-corruption Action Plan

• 28 мая 2014, 17:41

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