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Exiled tycoon the latest in a long line of people charged for opposing Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Published On 14 Oct 202514 Oct 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has opened a criminal case against exiled oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky, accusing him of creating a “terrorist organisation”…
President Marcos said in July there were anomalies in 9,855 flood-control projects worth more than $9.5 bn. Published On 21 Sep 202521 Sep 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Thousands of protesters have gathered in the Philippine capital, Manila, angered over a corruption scandal involving flood control projects that are believed…
The UN Commission on Human Rights has found that authorities used schemes to divert public money. United Nations investigators have accused South Sudanese authorities of plundering one of the world’s youngest and most impoverished nations’ wealth of billions of dollars in public funds stolen as the majority of the country deals with a deepening food…
Malawians are voting to elect their next president amid a deepening economic crisis in one of Africa’s poorest and most climate-vulnerable countries. The small Southeast African nation has been hit with double-digit inflation that has caused food prices to skyrocket for several months now. It came after intense drought events last year. Earlier, in 2023,…
After 10 months of dissent, protests show no signs of dying down as fury at alleged government corruption grows. Published On 5 Sep 20255 Sep 2025 Serbia’s police have fired tear gas and stun grenades at antigovernment protesters in the city of Novi Sad who are demanding snap elections and an end to President Aleksandar…
M. Charitha Reddy | Photo Credit: By Arrangement The Telangana Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Thursday, September 4 arrested M. Charitha Reddy, Assistant Officer and District Fisheries Officer at the Nalgonda Collectorate, for allegedly demanding and accepting a bribe of ₹20,000. According to ACB officials, the officer sought the amount from a complainant in exchange for…
Alejandro Toledo is one of five former Peruvian presidents jailed in recent years as political turbulence continues. Published On 4 Sep 20254 Sep 2025 A Peruvian court has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 13 years and four months in prison for money laundering, his second conviction in connection with widespread corruption. Toledo is one…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has been sentenced to 12 years of house arrest following his conviction for witness-tampering and bribery, according to local media reports. The sentencing hearing on Friday also resulted in Uribe, 73, receiving a fine of $578,000 and a ban from serving in public office for 100 months and 20 days…
Sandinista commander Bayardo Arce arrested amid corruption probe and political shake-up in Nicaragua. Nicaraguan authorities have arrested Bayardo Arce, a senior Sandinista figure and longtime economic adviser to President Daniel Ortega, amid an escalating internal purge within the country’s ruling elite. According to Nicaraguan media, Arce, 76, was detained early Thursday morning following a raid…
Ukraine’s parliament has voted to restore the independence of two key anti-corruption agencies, moving to defuse the country’s biggest political crisis since Russia’s invasion. Lawmakers on Thursday voted 331 to 0 in favour of the bill, which President Volodymyr Zelenskyy submitted last week following pressure from thousands of protesters and top European officials. The measure…
