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Embattled president Dilma Rousseff admitted in a televised address that Brazil can do better and pledged to do more to fight corruption.

• 23 июня 2013, 12:14

Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas said Sunday he would step down amid a massive corruption scandal in which his top aide -- and alleged lover -- was indicted for bribery.

• 17 июня 2013, 18:42

Stephane Richard, the head of telecoms company Orange and a former aide to IMF chief Christine Lagarde, was charged in a corruption probe related to Lagarde's time as France's finance minister.

• 13 июня 2013, 18:50

Great Britain's Serious Fraud Office started an official investigation over Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation.

• 26 апреля 2013, 13:36

Kazakhstan financial police is suggesting to legally restrict withdrawal of cash by individuals and legal entities.

• 24 апреля 2013, 18:38

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 апреля 2013, 18:36

Kazakhstan finance police is holding an international anti-corruption seminar.

• 16 апреля 2013, 17:26

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 марта 2013, 14:32

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 февраля 2013, 15:04

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 февраля 2013, 15:11

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 февраля 2013, 18:19

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 февраля 2013, 16:16

International non-government organization Transparency International published its annual report called Corruption Perceptions Index.

• 04 февраля 2013, 14:41

China's armed forces are battling a major corruption problem, with little political oversight and no whistleblower mechanism to counter graft.

• 31 января 2013, 11:31

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 января 2013, 14:37

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 января 2013, 15:51

US intelligence has established that Yasser Abbas worked with Devincci Hourani to pursue deals in Sudan for Caratube International Oil Company.

• 19 декабря 2012, 18:23

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 декабря 2012, 12:04

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 ноября 2012, 10:46

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 октября 2012, 15:48