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South African Parliament Speaker’s home searched in bribery probe

A special investigations unit in South Africa conducted a search at the home of Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula. Law enforcement seized evidence related to accusations of bribery during her time as defense minister. The search and seizure operation, which lasted more than five hours, took place in Johannesburg. A special investigations unit in South

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Former Tokyo Olympic official denies bribery charges in Japanese court

Haruyuki Takahashi, a former Tokyo Olympics organizing committee member, appeared in court on Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to charges of accepting bribes related to the Tokyo Games. Takahashi allegedly accepted approximately $1.4 million in exchange for Olympic contracts for the 2021 Tokyo Games. Takahashi’s defense claimed the money he received was legitimate consulting income

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SAP to pay more than $220M to resolve bribery charges

WASHINGTON, D.C.: German software giant SAP has agreed to pay more than $220 million to resolve allegations it paid bribes to government officials in Indonesia, South Africa and five other countries, US authorities said on Wednesday. The deferred prosecution agreement resolves charges faced by SAP, which offers traditional software and cloud-based computing services, under the

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China arrests former top bank official for bribery

BEIJING: A former top official at one of China’s largest state-run banks has been arrested for alleged bribery, state media reported on Thursday, as Beijing cracks down on corruption in the country’s financial sector. The case of Zhou Qingyu, a former vice president of the China Development Bank, “has been transferred… for examination and prosecution,”

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Ex-Albanian environment minister gets almost 7 years in bribery case

A former Albanian environment minister, seven other officials and four businessmen were sentenced Monday to prison terms in connection with bribery over a contract to build an incinerator in western Albania, court officials said. The Special Court on Corruption and Organized Crime in the Albanian capital, Tirana, sentenced former Environment Minister Lefter Koka to six

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Ukraine Fires Top Military Enlistment Officers After Bribery Scandal

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine announced on Friday that his government was dismissing all of the country’s regional military recruitment chiefs to crack down on corruption, after multiple revelations of officers taking bribes to let men evade being drafted into fighting the Russian invasion. The announcement this week that since the invasion prosecutors had opened

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Biden ‘forced’ Burisma boss to pay millions for ‘bribery’

The long-awaited FBI form 1032 has finally been made public, alleging that Ukrainian gas executives paid Joe and Hunter Biden $5 million to “fix problems” that could hinder plans for a U.S. IPO. A “highly credible” FBI informant spanning 10 years has detailed conversations and meetings between senior Burisma Holdings executives. The meetings date back

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