Corruption - Page 2

The Ukrainian government is reportedly considering an end to its “International Sponsors of War” blacklist, which lists major companies that are passively funding the Russian invasion by continuing to do business in Russia, because China and France strongly object to the naming and shaming of their corporations.

At least two U.S. federal agents working with a group of informants and straw men in Mexico were allegedly able to set up a sophisticated money laundering operation based out of Mexico City’s airport. The operation reportedly ran during the Obama-Biden administration between 2010 and 2019. The two agents apparently have not faced any prosecution and are reportedly still employed by the U.S. government.

Prosecutors charged Argentina’s socialist former President Alberto Fernández on Thursday with embezzlement of funds as part of an investigation into irregularities in insurance contracting allegedly committed during his administration, which ended in December.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, already jailed on corruption and national security charges, was indicted on Tuesday on charges that he and his wife Bushra Bibi accepted parcels of land as bribes when Khan was in office.

Russian officials are reportedly refusing to release the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his family after his sudden death in an Arctic prison camp on February 16.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at monuments in cities across Russia on Friday to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who reportedly died under murky circumstances in a brutal prison camp at the age of 47 on Friday, was a fierce critic of strongman Vladimir Putin and the corruption of the Russian elite.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to another ten years in prison for mishandling security documents.

Ukrainian defence ministry officials are accused of conspiring with an arms firm to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy weapons.

The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Wednesday, banning him and his sons from entering the United States because of his alleged “involvement in significant corruption.”

Donald Trump would be a strong candidate in the 2024 election because he got the big issues right in 2016, says a startling article by a New York Times’ foremost Never Trumper, Bret Stephens.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping ordered the Communist Party’s discipline agency to engage in a more intense campaign against the “cancer” of corruption, the state news outlet Xinhua reported on Wednesday, calling the situation within the Party “grave and complex.”

Embattled Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been slapped with additional allegations of accepting bribes from the Qatari royal family.

An Albanian court ordered house arrest for former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition party to the governing socialists.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that suitcases containing cash valued at over $1 million were found in the home of a Hamas official in Gaza — and that the cash, ironically, was held in Israeli currency, totaling about 5 million Israeli shekels.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan used artificial intelligence (AI) to address a virtual rally from prison.

Albanian prosecutors asked lawmakers to strip former Prime Minister Berisha of his parliamentary immunity amid corruption investigations.

European Union lawmakers allegedly accepted €4 million in bribes to use their influence to advance the aims of Morocco, Mauritania, and Qatar.

A court in Argentina overturned the dismissal of a corruption probe into outgoing Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Federal investigators say that the leaders of a network of “sophisticated high-end brothels” kept “impeccable” records of their operation.

Albanian opposition MPs tried to block a vote on the budget by creating chair blockades, setting off smoke bombs, and lighting a small fire.

A Georgia voter project founded by Stacey Abrams and once headed by Raphael Warnock is facing scrutiny for financial corruption, a Politico report said.

The number of high-level Chinese business executives who have vanished without warning during dictator Xi Jinping’s latest political purge keeps growing, and it has evidently made foreign investors nervous enough to hinder Xi’s efforts to lure them back after his insane coronavirus lockdowns.

The leaders of the Palestinian terrorist group known as Hamas have become multi-billionaires over the past two decades, as they launch wars in Gaza from a safe distance in Qatar and Turkey, and condemn their own people to poverty and misery.

Lawmakers from Albania’s center-right opposition Democratic Party disrupted a session of the legislature on Thursday by tossing firecrackers, building chair barricades, and physically confronting members of the governing Socialist Party. 

The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) of the Chinese Communist Party announced on Sunday that 405,000 officials at all levels were punished during the first nine months of 2023.

An advisor to Ukrainian President Zelensky reportedly said corruption is so rampant that officials are “stealing like there’s no tomorrow”.

Jacksonville, Florida, Mayor Donna Deegan (D) is facing questions after she awarded a no-bid contract worth $300,000 to a firm whose president not only donated to her campaign, but hosted an event for her at his home this year.

The Chinese Communist Party announced through its state media arms on Tuesday that genocidal dictator Xi Jinping had fired now-former Defense Minister Li Shangfu, who had disappeared from the public eye without explanation in August.

The socialist government of Zimbabwe on Sunday announced emergency measures to contain a fast-growing epidemic of cholera that has spread to every province in the country.

Iraqi Christian leaders on Monday demanded an international investigation into a fire that killed 113 people at a wedding in a predominantly Christian town last week.

The Biden administration revealed in a confidential strategy document that they are ‘far more worried’ about corruption in Ukraine than they publicly admit, according to a report by Politico.

Americans have “had enough” of Democrat policies “destroying” our economy and security, according to House Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson of Louisiana, who asserted that the GOP seeks a change in how Washington works and is genuinely trying to prevent a government shutdown.

Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, celebrated the indictment of Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in a column this weekend branding him “the most Republican Democrat” and blaming the American right for the country’s alleged “endemic impudence.”

UNION CITY, New Jersey – Dejected fans showed up to Union City High School on a rainy Sunday to find that a scheduled Hispanic Heritage Month event featuring Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda had been canceled following Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) facing prison on charges of bribery.

Former President Donald Trump called on Senate Democrats to resign in light of the Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) corruption charges, saying, “They all knew what was going on.”