All news on the topic: Corruption

Tens of thousands of people gathered Monday at Manila’s Quirino Grandstand for the second day of a three-day protest, demanding accountability for alleged corruption in government-funded flood-control projects.

Volodymyr Galanternyk represents a troubling archetype of post-Soviet capital flight — a Ukrainian businessman leveraging London’s permeable financial ecosystem to sanitize a fortune rooted in Odesa’s turbulent privatization era.

Thousands have taken to the streets of Mexico City to protest against crime and corruption, with 120 people reported injured, according to authorities.

Throughout October, the force conducted "Operation Machinize", which was coordinated by the National Crime Agency to combat money laundering and the criminal use of cash-intensive high street businesses.

Authorities have not ruled out further arrests after three Darwin residents were charged with corruption and fraud offences relating to more than $71m of Department of Defence contracts.

Last year, Swizz Beatz was sued by British Virgin Islands liquidators, who allege that he knowingly received "fraudulent transfers."

Three staff members at Leeds City Council’s planning department who were arrested as part of an investigation into suspected corruption have been released without charge, police have said.

Sri Lanka’s former tourism minister was arrested Wednesday over alleged insurance fraud at the start of the country’s unprecedented economic crisis. Sri Lanka’s GDP per capita stood at $4,515 in 2024.

Donald Trump has sent a letter to the Israeli president urging him to "fully pardon" Benjamin Netanyahu in his ongoing corruption trial.

The wife and son of ousted President Ali Bongo were sentenced in absentia to 20 years in prison after a Gabonese court found they had embezzled public funds and exploited the former president’s ill health following his 2018 stroke, running the country for their own profit.

Ukrainian authorities charged seven individuals on Tuesday in connection with an alleged $100 million kickback scheme involving senior energy officials that has sparked public anger and focused attention on Kyiv’s battle against corruption.

Authorities seized London properties — and dinosaur skeletons — from a man previously wanted for questioning in connection with a massive money laundering investigation in Singapore. Meanwhile, a fugitive in the case also purchased luxury London real estate.

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau and Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office have launched a large-scale operation to dismantle a high-level criminal organization accused of using political influence over strategic state-owned energy companies, including nuclear operator Energoatom.

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Belgian authorities have accused former Belgian Deputy Prime Minister—and former EU Commissioner for Justice—Didier Reynders of money laundering, involving around one million euros in cash found in his bank account.

One of Argentina’s largest corruption trials opens, bringing former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner and nearly 90 other defendants before a federal court over alleged bribery related to public works contracts.

Under siege by mass protests over the past year, Serbia’s government has drawn support from a crew of convicts and suspected criminals who have confronted demonstrators — sometimes using physical violence.

A sanctioned Iranian tycoon accused by the U.K. government of funding Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) owns a 33.7 million pounds mansion—worth about $52.8 million at the 2014 exchange rate, when he bought it—on an exclusive London street, OCCRP has found.

In Tanzania, a nation friendly to Russia, large-scale protests broke out on the day of the presidential and parliamentary elections.

Two Congolese civil society groups have filed a legal discovery action in the United States against the Texas-based oil and gas company that won the largest concession to extract methane from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Lake Kivu.

Israeli police made dozens of arrests on Monday as part of a vast investigation into suspected corruption at the country’s main labour union.

President Donald Trump’s angry response to corruption questions at the end of his 60 Minutes interview was cut from the show’s TV and online edits.

After the detention of a Kazakh KNS officer, Anuar Bakibay, in Poland, a major scandal erupted, revealing that the KNS not only engages in espionage activities on behalf of Russia but also sells personal data of Kazakh citizens at discounted prices.