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Municipal Corporation Faridabad and Wakf Board officials arrested caught taking Rs 80,000 bribe

CHANDIGARH: Haryana State Vigilance Bureau has arrested two officials posted in Municipal Corporation Faridabad and Waqf Board, Bhiwani red-handed while accepting bribe worth Rs 50,000 and Rs 30,000 respectively. Both have been booked under the Prevention of Corruption Act.

The Times of India

Gabon sets example of how to preserve the Congo Basin rainforest

As Gabon hosts the Africa Climate Week, its environmental industry is setting the pace for the region and continent.

Al Jazeera

Nazi scientist Otmar von Verschuer's correspondence with British biologist illuminates corruption of medicine

In the archives of the University of Adelaide is an exchange of letters between an infamous German geneticist and a famed British biologist that reveals much about how Nazi scientists were able to reinvent themselves after the war.

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Sri Lanka is bankrupt because of the Rajapaksas, says Chandrika Kumaratunga

Sri Lanka’s former President thanks India for aid

The Hindu

Corruption in South Africa: new book sets out how ruling ANC lost the battle

One of the greatest benefits of South Africa’s democracy is freedom of speech and publication. Mpumelelo Mkhabela’s book, The Enemy Within, is the latest in a cascade of publications over the last decade that record corruption and theft by leading politicians in the country’s ruling party.

The Conversation

Liberia's George Weah under pressure over handling of corruption allegations made by US

Liberian President George Weah is facing a backlash over how he has handled corruption accusations made by the United States against three top officials.

Radio France Internationale

Supreme Court drops contempt case against Prashant Bhushan for ‘corruption’ remarks in Tehelka

Contempt proceedings against journalist Tarun Tejpal, who headed the magazine, has also been terminated. The case was last heard in 2020.

The Hindu

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Anti-corruption body moves step closer

The Albanese government will introduce its anti-corruption commission legislation to parliament in the coming sitting fortnight.

AAP

Joao Lourenco, who surprised Angola with corruption crackdown, gets 2nd term

A second term for Angolan President Joao Lourenco may have disappointed many voters keen to break with five decades of one-party rule, but many would still admit he's done much to tackle corruption within its ranks.

Reuters

Turkish opposition seeks probe into bribery allegations

Opposition parties in Turkey have filed legal complaints with court authorities to press Turkish prosecutors to investigate corruption allegations made by a fugitive mafia boss against a group of people close to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party

The Independent UK

Kenya's Odinga still says he won election, but will respect court ruling

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is contesting his loss in this month's presidential election in the Supreme Court, said he will respect the court's ruling - but still believes he won.

Reuters

China charges 28 and launches corruption investigation into 15 officials including police after attack on women at Tangshan restaurant

The men threw a chair at the women and dragged one of them out of a barbecue restaurant before assaulting her and those who tried to help, leading to charges against the alleged attackers and a wider probe into police corruption.

ABC News

Israeli tycoon appeals corruption conviction in Swiss court

Israeli diamond magnate Beny Steinmetz is returning to a Geneva courthouse to appeal his conviction on charges of corrupting foreign public officials and forging documents

The Independent UK

Bolsonaro and Lula face off in Brazil presidential debate

Brazil's main presidential candidates took their gloves off on Sunday and laid into each other in the first presidential debate for the October general election with accusations of corruption and threats to democracy.

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Peruvian judge sends Castillo's sister-in-law to jail over corruption allegations

The sister-in-law of Peruvian President Pedro Castillo was given 30 months of pre-trial detention on Sunday, the most serious escalation so far of a host of criminal investigations that have targeted the leader's inner circle.

The Independent UK

Calls to axe secret police counter-corruption guidance on links with journalists

The Society of Editors and the Crime Reporters Association have written to the College of Policing.

Miami Herald

Reports detail how Haiti’s public administration is a cesspool of corruption

Fictitious government jobs and contracts, political patronage, embezzlement, and university employees and civil servants who use government bank accounts as their personal checkbooks.

Reuters

Thousands in Argentina take to streets to defend embattled vice president

Thousands of followers of Argentina's former president and current Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner took to the streets in her defense Saturday, days after two prosecutors called for a 12-year prison sentence and a ban on public office for alleged corruption during her government.

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Inside a 'tale of greed' in San Francisco: Bribery scandal leads to 7-year prison sentence

Federal prosecutors called it "a tale of greed as old as time" — a powerful San Francisco official at the heart of a web of kickbacks, bribery and fraud that stretched across more than a decade.

The Hindu

Now, private schools write to PM against corruption in education department

They have accused officials of demanding ‘fixed percentage’ for every work

Axios

Former leaders have been jailed or charged all over the world

It's not just "banana republics."

The Hindu

Lokpal to accept corruption complaints filed in prescribed format only

The Central government had in March 2020 notified the Lokpal (Complaint) Rules, which prescribe the format to file a complaint.

The Independent UK

Gritty cult director Ferrara gets religion in 'Padre Pio'

Abel Ferrara is perhaps best known for his gritty New York exploitation films of the 1980s and 1990s that delved into the soulless evils of drug addiction, corruption and sexual violence

The Independent UK

Brazil's Lula wants to renegotiate loans if elected

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is pledging to renegotiate household debts if he wins October’s election

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