Former United Nations General Assembly President John Ashe has been charged by the United States for allegedly accepting bribes from a billionaire in China. Prosecutors in New York claim that Ashe turned the United Nations […]
Tag: Bribery
Students Buying Their Degree Hurts Just About Everyone
In several parts of the world, buying a diploma or degree is easy if you have the money to do so. This hurts legitimate students, educational systems and the economies of entire countries. Not to […]
AG Lynch Says FIFA Corruption Probe Is Expanding And Remains Far From Over
The US Justice Department is expanding its probe on FIFA and says we’re likely to see more officials being investigated. U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch went after FIFA’s top brass, just days into being sworn […]
British Drugmaker GSK Facing Fresh Bribery Allegations
Fresh off paying a record $483 million fine in China, British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is facing corruption allegations yet again, this time in Romania. GSK announced they were investigating the latest claims of bribes […]
Australian Human Trafficking Scandal Worsens As Spies Reported To Have Paid Smugglers Multiple Times
Australian spies have reportedly been systematically paying people smugglers if they agree to turn back asylum seeker boats, according to new reports. Both Labor and the Coalition governments are said to have approved the covert […]
FIFA Scandal Noose Tightens As Third Largest Swiss Bank Launches Internal Probe
As we’ve seen over the last eight years, global mega-banks rarely launch internal investigations on their own volition. Instead they come one step ahead of a legal inquiry into their criminal activities, whether that’s market […]
Leaked Contract Shows Taser Gouging Police Forces For Body Cams
In the wake of the Baltimore riots, police forces are quickly deploying body cameras to record police activities, raising logistical questions about how to store all that video, and for how much. A leaked $2.7 […]
Australian PM Caught Paying Criminal Syndicates To Return Migrants Home
Prime Minister Tony Abbott dodged new questions on Sunday about whether Australian officials paid people smugglers thousands of dollars to return 65 asylum seekers to Indonesia, saying only that his government is “prepared to do […]
Germany Bribed Saudi Arabia With Arms Shipment To Secure 2006 World Cup
The FIFA bribery scandal continues to worsen, as it became known on Sunday that Germany provided an arms shipment to Saudi Arabia in return for the kingdom’s vote for the 2006 World Cup, a German […]
Heads Of Criminal Banking Racket Deutsche Bank To Step Down
After an extraordinary meeting held over the weekend, the two current co-chief executives of criminal banking giant Deutsche Bank, Anshu Jain and Jürgen Fitschen, are stepping down, the bank announced Sunday. Yet, like their peer […]
Athletic Apparel Company Nike Is Now Involved In Two Huge Scandals
Nike’s iconic swoosh brand may be significantly weakened over the summer as the company is embroiled in bribery and doping allegations, exposing a cutthroat culture that will do anything to win. “Behind sponsorship is the […]
Corrupt FIFA President, Fearing Arrest, Refuses To Attend Olympics Meeting In Switzerland
Formerly defiant FIFA ringleader Sepp Blatter, who is resigning as president of world football’s scandal-plagued governing body, has decided he’d rather not end up like six of his colleagues, who were arrested in Switzerland last […]
FBI Is Investigating Disgraced FIFA President Blatter For Bribery
The FIFA soccer scandal continues to widen as reports surfaced late Tuesday that the FBI and U.S. prosecutors are investigating Sepp Blatter, who announced his resignation on Tuesday, as part of a wide ranging probe […]
Embattled World Soccer President Resigns In Shame After Latest Revelations
Sepp Blatter, head of corrupt world soccer body FIFA, announced he will step down as head of the governing body but only after a fresh vote “for the election of my successor,” he said Tuesday. […]
Nike May Face Criminal Charges In The FIFA Bribery Scandal
Athletic apparel giant Nike is heavily entangled in the massive FIFA bribery scandal according to analysis on the indictment released on Wednesday. Within the release by the Department of Justice there is an unidentified sportswear […]
How Much Does It Cost To Host A World Cup? $10 Million In Bribes
International soccer is forever tainted as sordid revelations emerge about the politics behind hosting a formerly-prestigious World Cup event. Tournaments were awarded on nothing but bribes, which in the case of South Africa’s 2010 cup […]