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Ambassadors Are ‘Extremely Angry, Feeling Betrayed’ After Graft Allegations...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - A resignation letter by Somalia's central bank governor sent from Dubai has thrown Western donors into a quandary over supporting a government they need to fight al Qaeda's local...
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Former Top China Army Officer 'Cut Off' From The Outside World In Graft Probe
BEIJING (Reuters) - A top retired Chinese general has been put under virtual house arrest while he assists with an investigation into the military's worst corruption scandal in almost a decade, two...
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China President Xi Is Going After His Predecessor's Power Base In Shanghai
Chinese President Xi Jinping's anti-graft campaign is turning its focus to the power base of his predecessor Jiang Zemin, with prosecutors in Shanghai announcing a former official's arrest for...
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China Is About To Take Down Yet Another Top Military Official
Investigators are still wrapping up the case against fallen former general Xu Caihou but speculation mounted yesterday that graft-busters were targeting another senior military officer.An article...
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Hong Kong's Former Top Civil Servant Found Guilty Of Taking Millions In Bribes
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A former top Hong Kong civil servant was found guilty on Friday of accepting millions of dollars in bribes from the city's largest property developer, Sun Hung Kai Properties...
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Hong Kong Billionaire Sentenced To 5 Years In Jail For Corruption
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Former co-chairman of Hong Kong-listed developer Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd, Thomas Kwok, was sentenced to five years in jail and a HK$500,000 ($64,440) fine on Tuesday for...
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'Harsher punishment' is coming for China's corrupt
BEIJING (Reuters) - China plans to enact specific legislation to fight corruption, the head of the country's parliament said on Sunday, as the government continues its campaign against graft.Zhang...
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A former senior police chief in China has been accused of murder
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's anti-graft watchdog accused the former police chief of the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia of suspected murder on Friday, saying he would be prosecuted for crimes that...
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China is cracking down on golf, again
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to prevent officials from engaging in corrupt...
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China's corruption watchdog wants to try fugitive officials in absentia
China’s top anti-graft watchdog has called for fugitive officials suspected of corruption to be tried in absentia.Setting up trials in absentia – criminal proceedings in court in which the suspect is...
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Chinese officials facing corruption charges are being tempted by suicide
On Sunday alone, at least two Chinese government officials killed themselves. Mainland media reported that Liu Xiaohua, the deputy secretary general of the Guangdong provincial party committee and a...
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China's graft-busters are struggling to catch fugitive officials
The Communist Party’s top anti-graft body has called for better gathering of information between agencies responsible for corruption investigations to stop fugitive officials fleeing the country.An...
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China's president vowed he won't run a 'one-man show' in Asia
China will not seek to cast a long shadow over Asia but will also not succumb to threats of military force, President Xi Jinping vowed at a gathering in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People to mark the...
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China's corruption crackdown has claimed an active military general for the...
A top general and former ally of disgraced security tsar Zhou Yongkang has been arrested for violating Communist Party discipline, a euphemism for corruption, sources told the South China Morning...
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Russia's political elite fear that Moscow is preparing a wide purge on graft...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The arrest of Russia's economy minister on bribery charges has sown fear across the Moscow political elite that a wider purge may be coming of other senior officials.Several...
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Xi Jinping: No one in China is exempt from corruption scrutiny
BEIJING (Reuters) - The top echelons of China's ruling Communist Party must lead the fight against corruption by accepting supervision for all they do, state media on Tuesday quoted President Xi...
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A graft investigation is testing Netanyahu's years-long hold on power
Jerusalem (AFP) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a graft probe some believe could force him from office, but the four-term premier has overcome legal troubles in the past and remains a...
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A Brazilian construction giant was leveled by a $3.5 billion bribery fine,...
Montevideo (AFP) - For years, Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht landed huge public works contracts by paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes.Now, the company's dirty dealings have caught...
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'Operation Flesh Is Weak': Brazilian police launch biggest search-and-raid...
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, March 17 (Reuters) - Brazil's Federal Police on Friday launched massive raids and searches as part of a probe of unnamed food processors accused of bribing regulators to...
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Report says Brazil's president is on tape discussing hush money
BRASILIA — Brazilian President Michel Temer gave his blessing to an attempt to pay a potential witness to remain silent in the country's biggest-ever graft investigation, according to plea-bargain...
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