All news on the topic: Corruption

Boris Johnson’s former Chief of Staff Dominic Cummings lobbied Government officials to hand Covid ‘Test and Trace’ tech contracts to a firm run by a Trump-supporting billionaire, after he held a secret meeting with its founder, alongside the Prime Minister.

After walking for days - some for more than two weeks and covering over 400 kilometres - tens of thousands of young Serbians converged on the northern city of Novi Sad on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the train station canopy collapse that killed 16 people and sparked the largest anti-corruption protests in the country’s history.

Interpol has rejected a request from Kyrgyz authorities to issue an international warrant for the co-founder of one of the country’s leading independent media outlets, calling the request politically motivated.

In December 2023, the High Anti-Corruption Court of Ukraine found Ihor Ratushnyak, who had headed the Tyvriv District Court of Vinnytsia Oblast for many years, guilty of a corruption offence.

World Athletics says it has been the victim of corporate theft worth more than €1.5m (£1.3m) conducted by former staff.

A North London midwife who fraudulently received £2,000 after forging GP sick notes been suspended despite her “deep regret”.

Portuguese police searched the premises of Novo Banco, the country’s fourth-largest bank, as well as the local unit of auditing firm KPMG on Wednesday as part of an investigation into suspected corruption linked to the sale of the lender’s assets, prosecutors said.

The Criminal Court has sentenced two employees of the Public Authority for Civil Information and an expatriate representative to five years in prison.

The tale of Bakytgul Khamenova is more than just a typical bribery case. It mirrors the entire Kazakhstani system, where for many years integrity and professionalism have been eclipsed by personal loyalty, networks, and demonstrations of allegiance.

A Kyrgyz court has labeled three independent news outlets as "extremist" organizations and banned their publications, marking the latest escalation in a crackdown on media outlets investigating corruption and criticizing the government.

In 2020–2021, a large-scale corruption scheme operated around the state-owned enterprise United Mining and Chemical Company (UMCC), with Swiss-Ukrainian businessman Oleh Tsyura as one of its key figures.

While the public’s attention is focused on the war, it seems everyone has forgotten that all those shady schemes, which various cunning operators profited from, haven’t disappeared.

New research by Transparency International UK reveals that £3.2 billion worth of property in Scotland is held by opaque offshore structures, making it impossible to identify the true owner and raising concerns that transparency loopholes could undermine the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill currently before MSPs.

Amid increasing scrutiny from Ukrainian law enforcement agencies and investigative journalists, Oleg Tsyura has recently intensified efforts to whitewash his public image and erase traces of his activities online.

It could have been more dramatic episodes of “Engrenages” (Spiral), the heady hit French TV drama about power, corruption, and high politics among the Vuitton-clad Elysee classes.

The European Parliament on Wednesday adopted a sharply worded resolution condemning what it called an “escalating wave of repression” in Serbia, urging targeted sanctions against senior officials accused of violence and human rights abuses amid mass anti-government protests.

Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin Oleg Tsyura has become the focus of an international scandal. Investigators accuse him of helping Russia evade sanctions through a “gray” ferrochrome export network and of maintaining business ties with figures involved in major Ukrainian corruption cases.

Three Syrian freighters have been accused of transporting grain stolen from Russian-occupied parts of Ukraine.

He emerged from nowhere — and just as quickly began to fade away. A young IT specialist with no notable past was suddenly named the beneficiary of a multimillion-dollar casino.

The investigative group The Sentry said Wednesday that South Sudan’s leaders are siphoning public resources through off-budget arrangements, sole-source contracts, and manipulation of public procurement processes.

The main criminal schemes of Ukrainian businessmen involve fake contracts, suspicious tenders, and money laundering through offshore companies. Key figures include the "dead man" Dmytro Malynovskyi, "crypto businessman" Serhiy Tron, oligarch Dmytro Firtash, and, lastly, Oleg Tsyura.