Bribery, graft and conflicts of interest news and stories

Bribery, graft and conflicts of interest

Canada businessman's corruption trial on in Cuba
A Canadian businessman caught up in a corruption probe in Cuba apparently went on trial Thursday, nearly two years after he was detained and his ...
Romania: 3 sentenced in corrupt real estate deal
Romania's top court has sentenced the owner of Steaua football club, the former chief of staff of the armed forces and a former defense minister to ...
Ecclestone relaxed about German bribe case
Bernie Ecclestone says he is totally relaxed following a report that German prosecutors have indicted the Formula One boss in a case centering on $44 ...
Swiss to crack down on business, sports bribery
The Swiss government wants to broaden its anti-corruption laws to make bribery a criminal offense in almost all cases. The move follows criticism from ...
UK: Another editor at The Sun charged over bribery
Britain's prosecutors say that a politics and government editor with The Sun tabloid has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds ...
China tightens grip on discourse, ideology
Chinese authorities have shut down or frozen the microblog accounts of several prominent liberal intellectuals and harassed rights lawyers lobbying ...
China investigates top planning official for graft
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the ...
German banker pulls appeal in F1 bribe case
A German court says a banker has withdrawn his appeal against his conviction last year for taking an illegal payment worth $44 million in connection ...
Ex-UK police officer jailed over leaks to tabloid
A former British police sergeant has been sentenced to 10 months in jail for trying to sell details about a celebrity couple's daughter and other ...
Israeli ultra-Orthodox party reinstates leader
A spokesman for Israel's ultra-Orthodox Shas party says it has reinstated Arieh Deri as party leader. Deri last held the post in 1999, the year he was ...
'Clumsy' Sepp Blatter cleared of any wrongdoing
Despite being labeled "clumsy" for his part in one of FIFA's biggest corruption scandals, Sepp Blatter was cleared of any criminal or unethical ...
Prosecutors seek speedy Finmeccanica bribe trial
Prosecutors are pushing for a speedy trial for alleged corruption by top executives at Italian defense giant Finmeccanica and its Agusta helicopter ...
Reporter at Murdoch's The Sun charged over bribery
A senior reporter at Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper is being charged with conspiring to pay 23,000 pounds (roughly $35,000) in bribes in return ...
Bulgarian top cop investigated for bribery
Bulgarian prosecutors have begun pretrial proceedings against a senior police official suspected of bribery. Sofia City Prosecutor Nikolai Kokinov ...
Former NM judge enters plea in bribery case
A retired judge accused of soliciting bribes for former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson pleaded no contest Thursday to misdemeanor misconduct, ...
Senior British journalist charged over bribes
The Sun newspaper's executive editor was charged Thursday with authorizing bribes to a government official, making him one of most senior journalists ...
4 former BizJet execs charged with foreign bribery
Newly unsealed federal charges accuse four former executives of a U.S. subsidiary of German-based Lufthansa Technik AG of engaging in a bribery scheme ...
Bulgaria charges ex-minister with corruption
Bulgaria's former agriculture minister has been charged with corruption and bribery linked to the distribution of EU agricultural funds in the Balkan ...
Decision time looms in politics of FIFA reform
In a conclave at FIFA headquarters this week, a group of football leaders will work secretively over two days in their first session of 2013.
India agency files case against air force ex-chief
India's top investigative agency filed a criminal case on Wednesday against a former air force chief and 11 other people on charges of cheating and ...
UK fraud office launches inquiry in Autonomy case
Britain's Serious Fraud Office has launched an internal inquiry to determine if there is a conflict of interest in its use of software linked to a ...
Azerbaijani editor sentenced to 9 years in jail
The editor of an independent Azerbaijani newspaper has been sentenced to nine years in prison for bribery in a trial dismissed by his supporters and ...
FIFA suspends executive during ethics probe
The fallout from the Mohamed bin Hammam corruption scandal in world football led to FIFA suspending another leading Asian member of its executive ...
Int'l court drops case against Kenyan suspect
A lawyer for Kenyan president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta said Monday the International Criminal Court prosecution of his client for allegedly orchestrating ...