Tag Archives: Corruption

BRUSSELS — The office of the Belgian federal prosecutor announced on Sunday that it had charged four people with corruption and other crimes as part of a major investigation into suspected bribes from Qatar to current and former officials and lawmakers in the European Parliament. The prosecutor did not name …

Advertisement A senator representing Akwa Ibom North-East, Bassey Albert has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for corruption by a federal high court in the state. Albert, before the landmark verdict was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), when he won the election before defecting to the …

Malawi’s Vice-President Saulos Chilima has been arrested by the country’s anti-corruption agency on allegation of accepting money in exchange for awarding government contracts.   He is accused of receiving $280,000 (£230,000) from a British businessman “and other items”.   The British businessman, Zuneth Sattar, is under arrest in the UK where …

Benjamin Netanyahu will make a remarkable comeback as Israel’s prime minister after general elections, and the concession on Thursday of the current leader, Yair Lapid, put his right-wing bloc on a glide path to victory. But looming over his return is the unfinished business of the State of Israel v. …

The World Bank has debarred five Nigerian firms and individuals for engaging in corrupt practices and also recognized the debarment of two Nigerian companies debarred by the African Development Bank (AfDB).    The companies and individuals who will no longer participate in projects and operations financed by institutions of the World …

A former EFCC acting Chairman, Ibrahim Magu, has described his exit from the anti-corruption agency as “corruption fighting back.”   Magu was suspended from office in July 2020 over his alleged involvement in corrupt practices.   Speaking at an award ceremony organized in his honour by Northern Female Students Association …

The Federal Government’s investments are being threatened by corruption, according to President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking at the Fourth National Summit on Reducing Corruption in the Public Sector on Tuesday at the State House in Abuja, Buhari disputed the idea that persistent strikes, particularly by unions in tertiary education, frequently signify severe …

President Muhammadu Buhari has listed the eradication of corruption in all facets as part of the wins of his administration. The President in his Independence Day speech on Saturday said one of the areas where his administration has made significant progress is in the eradication of deeply entrenched corruption that …

Rachel Maddow used Geoff Berman’s new book to expose how Donald Trump corrupted the DOJ. Video: Maddow said, “We have this increasing public record evidence that when Trump was in charge when he was president when his appointees were running the Justice Department, they really did have a DOJ  gone …

Hugo Velazquez reverses his decision to resign after the US last week accused him of involvement in ‘significant’ corruption. The vice president of Paraguay has reversed a plan to resign this week, saying he will not give up his post until he has details of the United States’s corruption claims …