Tag: Graft

Six ministers from the finance minister’s party quit the cabinet in Mauritius on Tuesday in protest against the arrest of the health minister by...

A second Indian cabinet member resigned on Thursday over allegations of corruption within government, dealing another blow to embattled Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Textiles Minister...

France’s former leader Jacques Chirac is to be tried for corruption relating to his time as Paris mayor in the 1990s in September, a...

A veteran Indian activist on Thursday threatened to launch another protest against corruption, accusing the government of trying to scuttle a proposed anti-graft bill....

India’s most popular, and powerful, yoga guru rejected an appeal by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday to call off a hunger strike against...

Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam vowed to clear his name Thursday after sensational corruption charges he has dismissed as a ploy by Sepp...

World football governing body FIFA announced Wednesday they have opened a corruption probe into four officials including Qatar’s Mohamed Bin Hammam and Trinidadian Jack...

FIFA president Sepp Blatter has vowed to launch a counterattack against those who alleged the organisation is corrupt unless they present hard evidence of...

Egypt’s anti-graft agency said on Friday it had questioned former President Hosni Mubarak and his wife in a probe into corruption charges and ordered...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has launched an internal inquiry against one of its National Assembly members Anjum Aqeel Khan for allegations of corruption in the real estate business in the capital.
"Though Anjum Aqeel Khan has settled the National Police Foundation (NPF) scam by paying back Rs 5.8 billion in cash or kind following negotiations with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the party is conducting a thorough inquiry into the matter to learn

NEW DELHI - India's biggest corruption case descended into bickering over the quality of poorly photocopied witness testimonies and noisy ceiling fans on Friday as five senior business executives fought to win bail in a packed and stuffy court.
Judge OP Saini deferred until Wednesday a decision on bail applications of officials from the Indian joint ventures of Norway's Telenor , the United Arab Emirates' Etisalat and from India's Reliance ADA group, owned by tycoon Anil Ambani,

NEW DELHI - Indian police on Saturday charged a former telecom minister with abuse of power and conspiracy in an alleged mobile spectrum fraud that cost the country billions of dollars in lost revenue. The south Indian politician, A Raja, was also accused of cheating, forgery and criminal misconduct on a charge sheet and annexed documents that ran to 80,000 pages. "I am satisfied that there is enough incriminating material on the record to proceed against the accused persons," judge

NEW DELHI - Indian politician Rahul Gandhi, widely seen as a prime minister-in-waiting, on Saturday demanded "stringent" action against corruption amid a wave of scandals that have jolted the country.
A series of graft scandals erupted last year, including a massive telecoms licences scam that has undermined Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as well as allegations of widespread corruption related to the Commonwealth Games. "Stringent action against corruption is needed.