South Africa’s highest court starts hearing the case of President Jacob Zuma over use of government funds. Protesters surround the court area, with citizens accusing the president and the African National Congress of corruption.
A national jury sent down a former official in Chicago on Tuesday for being guilty in accepting “under the table” process to push a 100 million dollar contract to a Phoenix company, concerning the red light camera.
Legal practitioners in Nigeria are lobbying the passage of a law that will protect whistleblowers to encourage their participation in the country's legal system.
Two former top UN officials who are allegedly involved with a $1 million bribery case were pleaded not guilty as diplomatic immunity may preclude any bribery charges. At Thursday hearing, a judge doubted the immunity scenario.
Nigerian Minister claims that fifty-five government officials and businessmen stole public funds costing 1.34 trillion naira (US$6.8 billion) over a period of seven years.
Guatemala captures Brayan Jimenez for corruption, fraud and money laundering in FIFA. There are more officials and people involved in the said federation who are facing the same charges.
Court rejects appeal of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. He was accused of trading his political influence for city contractor bribes and is now serving a 10-year sentence.
A Beijing court has recommended a suspended death sentence for the wife of disgraced former Politburo member Bo Xilai be commuted to life in jail due to acts of repentance and no further criminal activity, Chinese media said on Monday.
The chief executive of Brazil's biggest independent investment bank and the leading senator in the governing coalition were arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of obstructing the country's most sweeping corruption investigation ever.
A Brazilian congressional ethics committee decided on Monday to investigate whether lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha lied in a corruption hearing about Swiss bank accounts that prosecutors say he controls.
Kenyan police on Tuesday arrested a journalist who wrote about corruption at the Interior Ministry, drawing accusations from media groups that the government was trying to trample free speech.
Russia could be banned from international athletics, including the 2016 Olympic Games, after an anti-doping commission report on Monday alleged widespread corruption and collusion that added up to a state-sponsored drugs culture in a sporting superpower.
Opposition activists handcuffed themselves to a pillar in Brazil's Congress on Wednesday seeking the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff for mismanaging a once-booming economy and undermining confidence in the country.
The speaker of the lower house of Brazil's Congress said on Thursday that manipulating government accounts, the main opposition case for ousting President Dilma Rousseff, was not sufficient grounds to impeach her.
Guatemala's jailed former president, Otto Perez, says he regrets bowing to U.S. pressure to extend the work of an anti-corruption unit that then toppled him from power and that it was U.S. Vice President Joe Biden who forced his hand.
China's ruling Communist Party has listed golf and gluttony as violations for the first time as it tightens its rules to prevent officials from engaging in corrupt practices, while also turning an even sterner eye on sexual impropriety.
U.S. authorities charged a former president of the United Nations General Assembly, a billionaire Macau real estate developer and four others on Tuesday for engaging in a wide-ranging corruption scheme.
