Friday, 22 November , 2024

Corruption

EU commissioner lobbied by energy firm he owns shares in

By Nikolaj Nielsen 14. Feb, 2020 EU budget commissioner Johannes Hahn owns 2,200 shares in Austria's largest electricity-provider Verbund AG whilst actively being lobbied by the...

Judge tells of murder plots to block Dutroux investigation

By Ambrose Evans - Pritchard March 5, 2004 The Belgian judge who saved two young girls from Marc Dutroux's paedophile dungeon broke down in the witness...

One of China’s former top spy chiefs gets life sentence for...

By William Zheng 27 December, 2018 After four years in detention, Ma Jian, the former deputy head of China’s Ministry of State Security, was tried on...

Israeli Police Recommend Bribery Charges Against Benjamin and Sara Netanyahu

02.12.2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is involved in several separate corruption cases — Case 1000, Case 2000 and Case 4000. Referring the case to the Prosecutor...

Les vraies raisons du dépeçage d’Alstom, par Leslie Varenne

10 Octobre, 2017 Lors d’une conférence, Christian Harbulot, patron de l’École de Guerre Économique a évoqué le cas Alstom, et le rachat de sa branche...

European powers fear loss of influence in Balkans after London summit...

By Julie Hyland 17 July 2018 The European Union (EU) summit on the West Balkans in London last Monday was overshadowed by the political crisis...

Moldova-Ukraine-Georgia Alliance: Nothing More Than Flash in the Pan

By Alex GORKA 11.06.2018 On June 9, a statement attesting to the creation of the Ukraine-Moldova-Georgia Inter-Parliamentary Assembly was signed by the heads of those parliaments in Kiev....

Police believe a journalist was killed for reporting on fraud in...

By Jason Rezaian February 26 European and Slovak authorities believe that an investigative reporter who was shot to death Sunday in Slovakia was killed because...

China has jailed so many corrupt elites that it’s running out...

Overcrowding has prompted Qincheng prison – where former high-ranking officials are jailed – to pull the plug on Lunar New Year visits, source says...

Israeli Police to Recommend Indicting Netanyahu

By Carlos Ballesteros 8/2/2017 Israeli police will recommend indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges, the premier confirmed on Wednesday. Netanyahu said he remained confident that he won’t...