Africa loses at least $50 billion a year to illicit practices like tax fraud, corruption and organized crime, a worrying situation that is hurting the continent’s economies, a UN-mandated study group warned Sunday. Illicit financial flows — which range from international corporations dodging taxes to the trafficking of weapons and minerals — are a barrier…
Shortly before 11 a.m. on the last Saturday in May, a heavily laden white Mitsubishi truck pulled into the Fuji Motors East Africa car dealership in an industrial neighborhood on the northern edge of Mombasa. The truck’s cargo was not “household equipment” as declared, but 228 elephant tusks and 74 ivory pieces weighing a total of…
Maxi operazione dei carabinieri contro la ’ndrangheta in Emilia Romagna. Gli arresti disposti dalla magistratura di Bologna sono 117. Tra questi anche il consigliere comunale di Reggio Emilia Giuseppe Pagliani (Forza Italia). Altri 46 provvedimenti sono stati emessi dalle procure di Catanzaro e Brescia, per un totale di oltre 160 arresti. Lombardia, Piemonte, Veneto, Calabria…
African whistleblowers have now their platform in order to fight corruption, which is “secure”, announced a strange online video on the Internet starting the 14th of January. “AfriLeaks is encouraging investigative journalism in order to fight corruption and human rights violations” said the Anonymous-type scrambled voice. AfriLeaks ha been thinked by the African Network of Centers for…
Yesterday, Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO), an international NGO based in Brussels, released a new report exposing companies behind Europe’s multi-million Euro image-laundering business. It focuses on the strong links between PR firms and repressive regimes, paying them in order to push their agenda and mask their dire human right records. Case studies include: the story of…
The idea that the New Year means a chance to start all over again is often little more than a well-meaning fantasy. And nowhere is that more clear than in Spain, where 2015 is starting with a total of 150 ongoing corruption cases in the courts, with more than 2,000 official suspects, according to calculations…
By 2010, the criminal landscape in Mexico differed greatly from that in 1989. Numerous crime groups, some with small but critical niches, controlled drug trafficking operations in Mexico. Even so, a few cohesive crime groups still dominated the Mexican drug trade, particularly the Juarez cartel, the Tijuana cartel, the Gulf cartel and the Sinaloa Federation….
Ma Jian, one of the mainland’s top spy chiefs, has been detained over alleged corruption as part of President Xi Jinping’s ever-widening crackdown on graft, sources with direct knowledge of the situation have told the South China Morning Post. The sources also revealed that several of Ma’s close relatives were under investigation. It is not…
Hosni Mubarak, former president of Egypt, 86, will face Supreme Court in a case of corruption. The only charge left, after the cancellation Tuesday of a previous sentence of three years in prison. His status remain uncertain, as M. Mubarak’s lawyer Farid al-Deeb told AFP his client had “served his time”. “He will remain in…
Viktor Ianoukovitch, former Ukrainian president, is now wanted by international police organisation Interpol (Lyon, FRANCE). Interpol diffused a “red notice” saying Mr Ianoukovitch is wanted by the judicial authorities of Ukraine for prosecution. The country asked in late March 2014 to Interpol to submit such an international warrant for “murder and abuse of power”. Kiev…
