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Corruption
RSS FeedSouth Africa: "Scorpions" boss to join World Bank
2008-05-08
The head of South Africa's Scorpions crime-fighting unit, Leonard McCarthy, was appointed on Monday to head the World Bank's anti-corruption unit. World Bank President Robert Zoellick, in a statement, said South African President Thabo Mbeki had agre...
South Africa: Fight against corruption weakened by disbanding of police unit
2008-05-09
Transparency International (TI) is gravely concerned about news confirming the disbanding of the Directorate of Special Operations, South Africa’s specialised unit located within the independent National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) dedicated to fight...
Libya: Gadaffi tells government to hand out oil money
2008-05-09
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi accused a "corrupt" government of failing to manage the country's oil wealth and ordered it to hand out oil money directly to the country's five million people. Western diplomats said the call, late on Wednesday, appeare...
Global: Rich prosper, society suffers
2008-05-01
In today's globalized world, tax evasion is occurring on a massive scale. As corporations and wealthy individuals shift their assets into offshore tax havens, the estimated loss in global tax revenues is now estimated to be $500 billion a year. This ...
Global: Corruption: Causes, Effects and Deterrents - Agenda for Change
2008-05-01
Corruption is a cosmopolitan problem. However, its adverse effects on less-developed countries are perhaps more profound due to the fact that it has greatly affected the potential for governments in such countries to meet the basic needs and expectat...
Nigeria: Former governor confronts graft charges
2008-05-02
The former governor of Nigeria's Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has challenged the fraud and money-laundering charges brought against him by the anti-graft commission, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission [EFCC]. The anti-graft agency has filed...
Tanzania: Graft probe claims another minister
2008-04-25
Tanzania lost its fourth minister this year on graft charges when Andrew Chenge resigned amid allegations that he took bribes, a statement said on Sunday. "Chenge has written to the president asking for resignation and the president has accepted," sa...
Zimbabwe: Paper claims ivory used to finance purchase of Chinese arms
2008-04-25
The Zimbabwean newspaper claims that Robert Mugabe’s regime has illegally sold US$1 million of ivory as part payment for a shipment of ammunition, grenades and mortars from China. The paper claims that Poly Technologies, a state owned arms manufactur...
Sierra Leone: Police detain ex-ombudsman for graft
2008-04-18
Police in Sierra Leone have detained a former government ombudsman on corruption charges, authorities said on Friday, in the first high-level arrest since a new government took office last year pledging to tackle graft....
Global: Anti-corruption action at the 2008 World Bank spring meetings
2008-04-11
To ensure that anti-corruption action remains a top priority in the World Bank’s mission to reduce poverty, Transparency International (TI) will participate in the 2008 World Bank and International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings. TI will be represente...
DRC: Controversial mining project to face contract renegotiation
2008-04-04
DRC mining contract commission to push for a greater share in the Tenke Fungurume mining concession, one of the largest copper-cobalt deposits in the world. Critics charge that EIB's investment in the highly contested project before the conclusion of...
Africa: Transparency and accountability In Africa's extractive industries
2008-04-04
How can Africa’s extractive industries be made more transparent and held more accountable? This report is intended to help to help elected political officials – particularly those in the legislative branch of government – serve as constructive leader...
Kenya: World Bank again accused of tolerating corruption
2008-04-04
Wall Street Journal editorial targets corruption in World Bank projects in Kenya, spurring renewed complaints about the Bank’s alleged contribution to a climate of loose ethics and corruption in the Kenyan government. On March 6, a Wall Street Journa...
Kenya: Vacuum in governance likely to fuel corruption
2008-04-04
Transparency International-Kenya (TI-K) would like to express its alarm at the apparent vacuum in the governance structures and practice brought about by the sluggish progress in the constitution of a new cabinet as stipulated in the Peace Accord. Th...
DRC: Government finally publishes mining review
2008-03-26
The Congolese government, in the wake of the Carter Center press release on March 10, 2008 and at the end of a five-day mining conference in the Congo, published the final report of the mining contract review, which was initiated in April 2007. The r...
South Africa: Zuma tries to block court evidence
2008-03-14
Jacob Zuma, the leader of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa, has launched his final attempt to prevent evidence being used against him in a corruption trial. Zuma and his legal team appeared in the Constitutional Court on Tue...
South Africa: Government to shut anti-crime agency
2008-02-15
South Africa's elite crime-fighting unit, the Scorpions, is to be disbanded in what comes as a blow to Thabo Mbeki, the country's president, who defended the FBI-style organisation. Charles Nqakula, South Africa's safety and security minister, told p...
Tanzania: PM tenders resignation
2008-02-08
Tanzania Prime Minister Edward Lowassa told Parliament Thursday he had tendered his resignation to the president after being implicated in a corruption scandal over an energy deal. "Because I have been linked to this scandal, I have decided to write ...
South Africa: Police chief in court
2008-02-01
South Africa's police chief has maintained his innocence from corruption charges during a brief court appearance. Jackie Selebi who appeared in court in Johannesburg on Friday is accused of having a "generally corrupt relationship" with Glen Agliotti...
Global: World Bank to beef up anti-corruption unit
2008-01-24
The World Bank said on Wednesday it would adopt recommendations by a panel led by former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker to beef up its main corruption fighting unit. The World Bank, the globe's main poverty-fighting institution, has come under...
Nigeria: Government to scrap immunity for politicians - Yar'Adua
2008-01-25
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has said he supports ending immunity from prosecution for top political office holders in one of the world's most corrupt countries, although he has given no timetable to do so. Nigeria's 1999 constitution, written u...
Global: WB corruption chief quits
2008-01-17
On Wednesday, January 16, Reuters and the Financial Times (FT) reported that Suzanne Rich Folsom resigned as chief of the World Bank's anti-corruption unit. Folsom's appointment to lead the Department of Institutional Integrity (INT), the Bank's inte...
Nigeria: Emerging dangerous signals in the fight against corruption
2008-01-18
The Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) is a civil society organisation that is committed to good governance, human rights promotion and development in the West Africa sub-region. The Centre notes with concern dangerous signals emanating from ...
South Africa: Selebi resigns as Interpol chief
2008-01-18
Jackie Selebi, South Africa's police chief, has resigned as president of Interpol to fight corruption allegations in his home country. The world police organisation on Sunday said Selebi had stepped down "in the best interests of Interpol and out of ...
Nigeria: Graft boss strikes again
2008-01-11
Nigerian anti-corruption agents have issued an arrest warrant for an eighth former governor. Lucky Igbinedion of Edo State is accused of stealing more than $24m (£12m) through three front companies. Seven other governors have so far been charged with...
Morocco: New national centre to monitor corruption
2008-01-11
Transparency Maroc kicked off the New Year by opening the National Corruption Monitoring and Transparency Development Centre in Casablanca. Created in November 2007 with the financial support of the Embassy of the Netherlands, the centre has just beg...
South Africa: Police boss blames former prosecutor
2008-01-11
Former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka is driving the investigation against him, National Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi claims. This allegation is contained in Selebi's founding affidavit lodged with the Pretoria High Cou...
Africa: Corruption risk analysis in Southern Africa
2007-12-21
Corruption is illegal everywhere in Africa, but still deeply woven into the fabric of every day life. Corruption in Africa causes and deepens poverty and its impact is felt most by the poor. To assess the situation at the national level, Transparency...
Zimbabwe: Big corporate scandal uncovered
2007-12-20
Police in Harare have launched a massive investigation into allegations that Premier Finance Group, chief executive officer Raymond Chigogwana has siphoned about Z$926 billion from the bank through alleged foreign currency deals using shelf companies...
South Africa: Prosecutor says enough evidence against Zuma - radio
2007-12-20
South Africa's top prosecutor believes there is enough evidence to bring renewed graft charges against Jacob Zuma, newly elected head of the ruling ANC, a local radio station reported on Thursday. Talk Radio 702 quoted prosecutor Mokotedi Mpshe as sa...
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