Comedian and former Quezon City councilor Roderick Paulate has been convicted by the Sandiganbayan for graft and nine counts of falsification of documents in connection with the hiring of “ghost employees” in 2010.
A Panama court has ordered former presidents Ricardo Martinelli and Juan Carlos Varela to stand trial on charges of laundering money from Brazilian construction giant Odebrecht, a court document showed Tuesday.
Paraguay’s Vice President Hugo Velazquez, who resigned last week after being sanctioned by Washington for “significant corruption,” said Thursday he would remain in his post after all.
Four children of Gabon’s late president Omar Bongo have been charged in France with embezzlement and corruption, a source familiar with the case told AFP Thursday.
Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera on Monday sacked his entire cabinet over graft concerns, vowing to “confront all forms of lawless conduct by public officials”.
China is preparing a criminal case against the wife of jailed former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei in an effort to retrieve millions of yuan in
Senator Manny Pacquiao is taking a page from President Rodrigo Duterte’s book for his presidential campaign, touting a deadline of three to six months in resolving graft cases.
The media corruption scandal that recently felled Austria’s 35-year-old right-wing Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has given fresh urgency to calls for reform of what critics say are unhealthy links between politicians, pollsters and the press.
The Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD) on Wednesday said that the “truth prevailed” in the Sandiganbayan’s decision to dismiss the graft charges against its chairman Sen. Ramon Bong Revilla Jr.
MANILA – The Sandiganbayan on Thursday acquitted former Makati City Mayor Elenita Binay of graft and malversation charges arising from alleged irregularities in a P45-million transaction for Ospital ng Makati (OsMak) in 2000 and 2001.
