HSBC’s Swiss bank concealed large sums of money for people facing allegations of serious wrongdoing, including drug-running, corruption and money laundering, leaked files reveal. Despite being legally obliged since 1998 to make special checks on high-risk customers, the bank provided accounts for clients implicated in six notorious scandals in Africa, including Kenya’s biggest corruption case,…
President Sergio Mattarella called on Italian lawmakers to make fighting organized crime and corruption a priority, using his first speech as head of state to highlight two of the country’s most persistent economic and social scourges. “Corruption has reached an unacceptable level,” said Mattarella, 73, who spoke after having taken his oath of office before…
A publication from IOS Press was released in 2014, by numerous academics from the Institute of Law and Technology (Autonomous University of Barcelona), the Center for Applied Social Reaserch (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) and research centers such as Vicomtech-IK4 (San Sebastian), S21sec (Pamplona) and the Technion Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa). Its title: “Fighting organized crime…
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….
