
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 ...

Politics, bribery charges swirl around Ugandan oil
Even before the first drops flow, Uganda's oil sector is beset by bribery allegations against officials, tax-related cases abroad that cost the ...

Wal-Mart's 1Q profit, sales disappoint
The first few months of the year were tough for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The world's largest retailer reported Thursday that its first-quarter profit ...

OJ back in court; Day 4 of bid for new Vegas trial
The lead defense attorney in O.J. Simpson's armed robbery trial had a conflict of interest because he could have been a witness in the case, a lawyer ...
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 ...
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 ...
APNewsBreak: 5 charged in CA immigration scam
Four federal law enforcement officers were charged with accepting cash, a TV, and plane tickets among bribes dating back more than a decade to help ...
Venezuelan bank official charged in NY bribe case
A senior Venezuelan banking official is being held in Miami on charges that she accepted at least $5 million in bribes to funnel business to two Miami ...
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
Labeled "clumsy" for his part in one of soccer's biggest corruption scandals, FIFA President Sepp Blatter was cleared of any criminal or ethical ...
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 ...
Another China official dies during party detention
A senior official at a city court in central China died under mysterious circumstances, his body bruised after 11 days in the custody of anti-graft ...

NY suspects asked for hard drives to hold evidence
The government's evidence in a political corruption case — audio and video recordings, text messages, emails and more — is so voluminous that each of ...
Argentina tells SEC it wants proof in bribery case
Argentina wants the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to name names and provide proof that Ralph Lauren Corp. bribed customs officials for years ...
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 ...

China's ex-train boss charged in bribery case
The man who spearheaded China's showcase bullet train network has been charged with taking bribes and abusing his power, two years after he was ousted ...

Lawmaker accused of bribes in NYC mayor race plot
For the politically ambitious, running as a Republican is sometimes the best way a Democrat can increase his electoral odds in New York City's crowded ...

NY state sen. arrested in alleged mayor race plot
A Democratic state lawmaker was arrested along with five other politicians Tuesday in an alleged plot to pay tens of thousands of dollars in bribes ...
Wal-Mart says loss likely from bribery probe
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it is 'probable' that the world's largest retailer will incur a loss due to ongoing bribery investigations by itself and ...
Report: Bribery probe targets Microsoft partners
Microsoft is entangled in a U.S. government investigation into whether the software maker and some of its business partners resorted to bribery to ...
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 ...