The prosecution General of The Savior criminally accused General David Munguía Payés, former Minister of Security and Defense, for the alleged laundering of 1.1 million dollars (0.91 million euros at today’s exchange rate) of state funds received under the Government of Mauricio Funes ( 2009-2014). This was reported this Saturday by the Prosecutor’s Office on […]
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Former Brazilian president Collor de Mello, sentenced to nine years in prison for corruption
The Supreme Court of Brazil sentenced former President Fernando Collor de Mello this Wednesday to eight years and ten months in prison for the crimes of passive corruption and money laundering, in a trial for bribes that he considered proven that he received between 2010 and 2014, when he was serving as a senator. The […]
Keys to the political trial against the president of Ecuador
The president of Ecuadorthe right-wing Guillermo Lasso, faces three possible scenarios in the context of a political trial against him: Being dismissed, dissolving the Congress or remain in office with a Legislative dominated by the left. The unpopular president, 67, will face this Tuesday the second attempt by the unicameral Congress to remove him in […]
A security firm sentenced in Switzerland for bribing in three Latin American countries
The Swiss security multinational SICPA, leader in the production of special inks for banknotes and other documents, was sentenced this Thursday to pay 81 million francs (82 million euros) for its involvement in corruption cases in Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela. reported the National Prosecutor’s Office. After eight years of investigation, it was concluded that employees […]
Express judicial processes for corrupt officials in Venezuela
The process to judge political charges is carried out expressly in Venezuelawhere a recent investigation by corruption has left a balance of 25 detainees -14 of them State officials- already accused in a procedure that is advancing faster than usual, and that, according to experts, represents a “purge” of the chavismo. The Prosecutor’s Office confirmed […]
Pedro Castillo, the last of a long list of Latin American presidents with problems with justice
The former Peruvian president Pedro Castillowhom a judge in his country has ordered to keep in preventive detention for 36 months for his failed self-coup in December 2022, while he is investigated for a case of corruption, joins a list of Latin American presidents and former presidents convicted or who They have gone to prison […]
Petroecuador manager resigns after prosecutor’s raid on offices
The manager of the Ecuadorian state oil company PetroecuadorHugo Aguiar, resigned after his home was one of the places searched by the attorney general’s office in an investigation for alleged corruption, the country’s energy minister said on Friday. Prosecutors raided the facilities of the state company and a presidential office in Quito on Friday morning. […]
China arrests corruption suspect who has been on the run for 26 years
Chinese security forces recently arrested a former official of a state-owned tobacco company suspected of corruption who had been on the run for 26 years, the National Supervisory Commission, the main anti-corruption arm of the Chinese state, reported in recent hours. The suspect, wang hanmingwas a sales manager for a cigarette company in the southern […]
Odebrecht: five years after the corruption nightmare that stained Latin American leaders
The corruption plot that the Brazilian construction company orchestrated for 20 years Odebrecht and that came to light five years ago, it cost Latin America not only delay in its great infrastructure works but to see some of its greatest political and business leaders fall into a dark cobweb. Since on December 21, 2016, the […]
Works for almost S / 20,000 million complete another year without being unlocked
At least some US $ 5 billion (approximately S / 20 billion) in investments of a major caliber remain stuck due to links to corruption. The stoppage of the Majes Siguas II irrigation project, which should allow the cultivation of high-value agro-export products such as avocados, grapes and artichokes (income for Arequipa for more than […]