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[unable to retrieve full-text content] IN one of the biggest crackdowns on the corrupting role of money in college basketball, 10 men — including a top Adidas executive and four assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, […]
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Enlarge / Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, right, is escorted by a prison officer as he leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday. Lee was convicted of bribery and sentenced to five years in prison, a blow to the heir apparent of the world’s biggest maker of smartphones and memory chips. […]
MEXICO CITY, Mexico — It’s a bizarre contest: whoever submits the best video documenting the most egregious act of corruption wins an iPhone 7, an all-expenses trip to a beach town, and free tickets to a monkey sanctuary. But this is Mexico after all. Real estate developer Carlos Mimenza came up with the unconventional contest […]
Thomson Reuters ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan‘s top court on Friday disqualified Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from office after a damning corruption probe into his family wealth, cutting short his third stint in power. The Supreme Court dismissed Sharif after an investigative panel alleged his family could not account for its vast wealth. The court also ordered […]
Fabio Ostermann’s office in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre boasts a bookshelf with rows dedicated to Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises. On top sits a copy of the American Declaration of Independence, a ukulele and a cartoon blow-up doll of Brazil’s former president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, dressed in the […]
REUTERS/Yuya Shino China’s massive international real estate buying spree just got another hurdle. Anbang Insurance Group, the Chinese behemoth that’s been buying landmarks across the globe, has lost its Chairman to an anti-graft campaign. While he’s not being accused of criminal activity, an investigation being led by the Communist government’s corruption watchdog will put a […]
It juts out from the side of a mountain, a mass of steel girders and blue facades soaring 10 stories on the north side of Cali, Colombia. Half-built, it gives off a ghostly feel. Not for long though. In about six months, this massive new home of the Mission for Peace Church will teem with […]
Published time: 7 Jun, 2017 12:38 Russian MPs have passed a bill ordering a unified list of all ex-officials who lost their posts because of corruption scandals. Read more The bill was prepared and drafted by the Russian Labor Ministry in early 2015, and received approval from the government in August of 2016. It was […]
RARELY has a Chinese city boss had more fans than Li Dakang, the earnest, driven Communist Party chief of Jingzhou. “I want development, I want speed and I want GDP,” he recently intoned. “But I want it to be modern GDP, GDP that comes without pollution.” Over the past month tens of millions have tuned […]
