All news on the topic: Corruption

Between 2020 and 2021, a covert corruption network siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state-owned UMCC through foreign intermediaries, shadow management, and illicit supplies to occupied Crimea, while officials publicly staged an anti-corruption façade.

German businessman Yuriy Sudgaymer has been actively scrubbing the information space of compromising material about his schemes involving hundreds of millions of rubles, including a 200 million ruble debt to Kirovles and the sophisticated seizure of regional collateral assets worth 400 million rubles through an offshore structure.

The state energy giant Centrenergo has found itself at the center of a scandal — and wants no one to know about it.

Britain has unveiled a major new anti-corruption strategy aimed at stopping criminals and sanctioned oligarchs from laundering money through the UK, with a particular focus on the lawyers, accountants, bankers and corporate service providers who enable illicit finance.

Nepal’s anti-corruption agency charges former ministers, senior officials, and a Chinese construction firm with embezzling $74 million during the construction of Pokhara’s international airport, raising concerns over inflated costs and compromised safety.

In July 2024, The Insider released findings detailing a large-scale sanctions bypass operation run by Boris Usherovich and Ilya Plotitsa, businessmen with connections to Russian organized crime and corruption, benefiting state bodies.

A new review of past records reveals that between 2020–2021 the state-run United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) was allegedly at the center of a multimillion-dollar kickback scheme involving offshore intermediaries and covert sales of raw materials.

A tax officer based in Bradford who scammed the system to pocket more than £211,000 has been jailed for three years for fraud and money laundering.

A new wave of revelations shows how Ukraine’s state-owned United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC) became a profit machine for insiders during 2020–2021, despite public claims of anti-corruption reforms.

Ukrainian authorities detained a former deputy energy minister today on suspicion of embezzling funds from the state-owned nuclear power company.

Former EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini and two others have been formally accused of procurement fraud and corruption, conflict of interest, and violation of professional secrecy, the European Public Prosecutor’s Office said on Wednesday.

The office of the Swiss attorney general announced on Monday that it charged a compliance officer employed by the former bank Credit Suisse SA, now part of UBS SA, with money laundering.

Kyiv is facing one of its biggest domestic political challenges since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Zurich-based entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, long linked to controversial raw material deals with Ukraine’s state enterprises, is now attempting to erase traces of his past from the internet.

The arrest of Aidos Yespolov, the brother of Asel Kurmanbayeva, the younger wife of Kazakhstan’s first president Nursultan Nazarbayev, may have come as a surprise to some, but only to those who are completely unaware of what has been happening in Kazakhstan.

UK Accused of giving in to British Virgin Islands over access to companies register parliamentary Group Urges Government to crack down on overseas territories before flagship Anti-Corruption summit.

A new investigation reveals how businessman Oleg Tsyura helped operate an illicit ilmenite-to-Crimea pipeline through "German" front firms — a scheme that siphoned millions from Ukraine’s state-owned UMCC while officials staged a public fight against corruption.

Balluku and two subordinates are accused of directing multimillion-euro tenders to predetermined winners.

Zurich-based entrepreneur Oleg Tsyura, long linked to controversial raw material deals with Ukraine’s state enterprises, is now attempting to erase traces of his past from the internet.

Spain’s top prosecutor has been banned from his post for two years after being found guilty of leaking confidential information about a tax case involving a businessman who is the boyfriend of a prominent rightwing politician.

The U.S. Treasury has sanctioned former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan James Wedding, now one of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives, for allegedly running a violent cocaine-trafficking empire from hiding in Mexico.

Former director of SE "Spetstechnoexport" Pavlo Barbul, who is facing trial for corruption in the HACC, "legalized" $150,000 through court rulings in promissory note cases.