White Collar Crime / Fraud / Corporate Crime
German police arrest hundreds in EncroChat crime crackdown
BERLIN (Reuters) - German police have arrested more than 750 people and seized a large haul of weapons and drugs...
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro implicated in alleged graft scheme as lawmaker, UOL reports
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was involved in a scheme to skim salaries of his aides while...
Read moreFormer Congo PM has immunity lifted over corruption allegations
KINSHASA (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's former prime minister Matata Ponyo Mapon's parliamentary immunity was lifted on Monday, as...
Read moreItaly arrests four suspected of sending funds to Islamic State
ROME (Reuters) - Italian police said on Monday they had arrested four men accused of sending funds to people across...
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Cardinal among 10 indicted by Vatican for financial crimes
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -A prominent Italian cardinal was among 10 people sent to trial in the Vatican...
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Brazil top court gives nod for probe into Bolsonaro over vaccine deal
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court Justice Rosa Weber late on Friday authorized an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro...
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El Salvador attorney general seizes opposition party assets in corruption case
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The attorney general's office in El Salvador on Friday seized some assets of...
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S.African ex-leader Zuma asks court to cancel 15-month jail sentence
By Tim Cocks JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's ex-leader Jacob Zuma on Friday asked the country's top court to annul...
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Brazil top prosecutor to investigate Bolsonaro over COVID-19 vaccine deal
By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's top prosecutor agreed on Friday to request an investigation of President Jair Bolsonaro for...
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Analysis-Brazil’s Bolsonaro is paying dearly to fend off impeachment
By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro is in a tight spot, caught between the rock...
Read moreSwitzerland orders son of Gaddafi’s oil chief to pay $1.5 million in bribery case
(Corrects typo in headline) By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - A Swiss court ordered the son of former leader Muammar...
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McAfee attempted suicide months before death in Spanish jail, prisons source says
By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) - John McAfee, who authorities believe committed suicide in a Spanish prison last month, first...
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Central American officials blacklisted by U.S. as part of corruption crackdown
By Nelson Renteria, Sofia Menchu and Ted Hesson SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -Central American presidential aides, top judges and former presidents...
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Jacob Zuma reps condemn ’emotional, angry’ South African court for his jail sentence
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The majority ruling by South Africa's top court, sentencing Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail, was...
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Brazil’s Bolsonaro says he will not be taken down by Senate probe
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, under pressure over allegations of corruption in his government's vaccine procurement...
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Dominican former law minister arrested on suspicion of diverting funds
By Ezequiel Abiu Lopez SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - Dominican authorities arrested a former attorney general on Tuesday over accusations of...
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Factbox-South Africa’s divisive ex-president Zuma’s many scandals
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's constitutional court on Tuesday sentenced ousted president Jacob Zuma to 15 months in jail for...
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Anti-apartheid veteran Zuma casts long shadow over South Africa
By Alexander Winning JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - When Jacob Zuma finally caved to pressure to quit as South African president in...
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Myanmar judge denies motion to dismiss evidence against Suu Kyi, lawyer says
(Reuters) - The judge in the trial of deposed Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday rejected a motion...
Read moreUkraine backs bill to jail officials for false asset declarations
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's parliament on Tuesday approved in a final reading a law to impose jail sentences on officials...
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