A long-running corruption trial of South Africa’s jailed ex-president Jacob Zuma will resume virtually on Monday, despite deadly violence that swept the nation after his imprisonment in an unrelated case. Zuma faces 16 charges of fraud, graft and racketeering related to a 1999 purchase of fighter jets, patrol boats and military gear from five European […]
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Court releases former DR Congo PM from brief house arrest
DR Congo’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday reversed its decision to place former prime minister Augustin Matata Ponyo under house arrest, his lawyer said. The former prime minister “is no longer under house arrest… He returned to his home without being accompanied by police,” the lawyer Laurent Onyemba told AFP. The court’s ruling came just the […]
Bulgaria protest parties buoyed as voters punish center-right for graft
Exit polls in Bulgaria’s second general election in three months show voters angry at rampant corruption have punished the party of three-time premier Boyko Borisov, deserting it for a new anti-establishment group headed by singer-turned-politician Slavi Trifonov. Latest polls projected that Trifonov’s There is Such a People (ITN) party — founded just last year — […]
Bulgaria votes again in a bid to end political deadlock
Bulgarians went to the polls for a second time in three months on Sunday, hoping the political parties can this time agree on a stable government coalition. After almost a decade in power, the conservative GERB party of three-time Prime Minister Boyko Borisov came out first in the last election in April with 26 percent […]
Mexican ex-economy minister accused of corruption
Mexico’s former economy minister Ildefonso Guajardo, one of the architects of a revamped North American trade deal, appeared in court on Friday charged with illicit enrichment, prosecutors said. The judge decided there were sufficient grounds to proceed with the case against Guajardo, who served under former president Enrique Pena Nieto (2012-2018). Guajardo played a key […]
South Africa’s ex-president Zuma hands himself to prison
South Africa’s ex-president Jacob Zuma turned himself in to prison late Wednesday to begin serving a 15-month sentence for contempt of court, his foundation said. In a historic ruling, the Constitutional Court last week handed Zuma a 15-month term for snubbing anti-graft investigators. Police had earlier on Wednesday warned they were prepared to arrest the […]
French judge tasked with probing Rafale jet sale to India
A French judge has been tasked with investigating a controversial 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on “corruption” suspicions, the national financial prosecutors’ office (PNF) said Friday. The 7.8-billion-euro ($9.3-billion) deal for 36 planes between the Indian government and French aircraft manufacturer Dassault has long been mired in corruption allegations. The PNF […]
French judge tasked with probing Rafale jet sale to India
A French judge has been tasked with investigating a controversial 2016 multi-billion-dollar sale of Rafale fighter jets to India on “corruption” suspicions, the national financial prosecutors’ office (PNF) said Friday. The 7.8-billion-euro ($9.3-billion) deal for 36 planes between the Indian government and French aircraft manufacturer Dassault has long been mired in corruption allegations. The PNF […]
UAE cricketers banned for breaching anti-corruption code
United Arab Emirates players Amir Hayat and Ashfaq Ahmed have been banned from all cricket for eight years after breaching the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code, the governing body announced on Thursday. The bans are backdated to September 2020, when the players were provisionally suspended for corrupt conduct in relation to an ICC T20 World […]
South Africa’s Zuma gets 15-month jail term for defying court
In a historic ruling, South Africa’s top court on Tuesday handed the country’s former president, Jacob Zuma, a 15-month jail term for “egregious” contempt of court after he refused to appear before graft investigators. Zuma was told to turn himself in within five days, failing which police will be ordered to arrest him and take […]