The National Council of Justice (CNJ) of Brazil opened disciplinary proceedings this Friday to investigate four judges for alleged irregularities in the conduct of the vast anti-corruption operation known as ‘Lava Jato‘. Among the judges investigated by the disciplinary body, is Gabriela Hardtwho signed one of the corruption convictions against the current Brazilian president, Luiz […]
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Fairy tales and other electoral promises in Eastern Europe
From eternal life to absolute happiness, passing through the legalization of corruption to subject it to taxes. The crazy electoral promises, between pure humor, political satire and populism, are abundant in the community countries in Central Europe and from the East facing the European Championships on June 9. Eternal life, along with something more prosaic […]
Pedro Sánchez’s wife will testify before a Spanish court in corruption case
The judicial fence is tightening around the wife of the president of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sanchezwho was summoned to testify at the beginning of July as being investigated in a case of alleged corruption and influence peddling. Since this investigation against Begoña Gómez was announced, the issue has become a nightmare for the socialist […]
Concerns that will mark elections in South Africa: inequality, crime and corruption
South Africamost industrialized country Africa, will hold general elections this Wednesday involved in an electoral debate in which citizen concerns such as inequality, criminality, corruption or the Palestinian-Israeli conflict can condition the result. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) of the country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has been in power since Nelson Mandela ended the racist […]
Comptroller’s Office of Cuba, on the Gil corruption case: “One feels it like a betrayal”
For Gladys Bejerano, general comptroller of Cubathe most notorious corruption case in the country in decades, that of former deputy prime minister and former Minister of Economy Alejandro Gil, felt like a “betrayal.” The top auditor of ministries and state companies in the socialist country highlights in an interview with EFE the “connotations” of the […]
Trust in Latin American governments is very low; Corruption worsens in Peru
Only 36.3% of inhabitants in 2022 had confidence in their governments in Latin America and the Caribbean, a figure in global terms clearly lower than the OECD average, although with notable differences by country, and which has rather decreased since 2008. Between those two years, trust in governments has decreased by 3.9 percentage points in […]
Prosecutor asks to increase Cristina Fernández’s sentence to 12 years in corruption trial
A prosecutor asked this Monday to aggravate the sentence of the former Argentine president Cristina Fernandez (2007-2015) in a trial for corruption, for which the former vice president had already been sentenced in December 2022 to six years in prison and disqualification from public office. During the first hearing to review the sentence against Fernández, […]
China sentences former bank president to death for corruption
The former president of the Chinese bank China Merchants Bank, Tian Huiyu, was sentenced this Monday to a suspended death sentence, state television CCTV announced, within the framework of a major anti-corruption campaign by President Xi Jinping against the financial sector. Death sentences of this type are usually commuted to life imprisonment after two years […]
Former ICBC bank discipline chief arrested for corruption in China
Liu Lixian, a former member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) committee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) and former head of the bank’s disciplinary inspection commission, has been arrested on suspicion of accepting bribes, the agency reported today. Xinhua news. The official announcement, published this Sunday on the website of […]
Dominican Republic, the only American country with great anti-corruption progress this decade
Dominican Republic It is the only country in America that has made significant progress against corruption this decade and, since 2020, it has risen 7 points, according to a report released this Tuesday by Transparency International (TI). In the 2023 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) of this organization, with a scale from 0 (very corrupt) to […]