Daily Corruption News - Transparency International (28 May 2015)

28 May 2015 Today's top story Global: Time for Sepp Blatter's reign at FIFA to end - 10 things to consider for Friday's election Thomson Reuters Foundation (TI mention) Transparency International is calling for Sepp Blatter to step down as FIFA president and to postpone the election for leadership of world football’s governing body after the U.S. Justice Department on May 27 indicted 14 people either working for or linked to FIFA, world football’s governing body.

More news Global: Corruption is leading indicator for political unrest, study finds Thomson Reuters Foundation Angola: Angolan activist gets six months suspended jail sentence Agence France-Presse China: China’s most-wanted: nabbed in New Jersey Bloomberg Guatemala: Sectores se unen contra la corrupción (Sectors unite against corruption) Prensa Libre (TI mention) Kosovo: Kosovo corruption “omnipresent” despite EU’s €111m-a-year mission Euronews (TI mention) Philippines: Graft probe raises doubts over Philippine presidential succession Financial Times Ukraine: Ukraine must keep up fight against corruption: Biden Reuters

Blogs and opinion Guatemala: How a peaceful protest changed a violent country BBC

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