United States: Argentine firm reaches $112.8 million deal with U.S. in FIFA probe
Dec 14, 2016 08:00 pm
U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday
announced an agreement allowing Argentine sports media Torneos y
Competencias SA to pay about $112.8 million to settle charges stemming
from a sweeping bribery probe targeting FIFA, soccer’s world governing
body. The deferred prosecution agreement with...
Thailand:
Swiss national Andre Xavier Justo jailed for 1MDB-linked blackmail
receives Thai royal pardon, likely to be freed before Christmas: Lawyer
Dec 14, 2016 07:30 pm
Dec 14, 2016 07:30 pm
Swiss
national Andre Xavier Justo, who is serving time in a Thai jail for a
blackmail attempt linked to 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), will be
among thousands of Thai and foreign prisoners granted a royal pardon by
King Maha Vajiralongkorn...
A
former mining minister in Guinea was accused by U.S. prosecutors
of laundering bribes he received as part of a scheme to help a Chinese
company win “near total control” of the West African nation’s valuable
mining sector. Mahmoud Thiam, a...
South Korea: Ex-prosecutor gets 4 years for corruption, but cleared of taking bribe from Nexon founder
Dec 14, 2016 06:30 pm
Dec 14, 2016 06:30 pm
A
South Korean lower court sentenced a former senior prosecutor to four
years in prison Tuesday for offering illegal favors to a company in
return for a lucrative business deal for his relative. But Jin
Kyung-joon was acquitted of a...
Palm
oil giant Olam has been accused of using suppliers that may use
unsustainable practices in parts of Southeast Asia. The claims against
the agricultural commodities trader were made in a report by Mighty, a
US-based environmental lobby group. Mighty...
The
office of Peru’s attorney general has reopened a corruption inquiry
into whether President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski helped a Brazilian company
win public work contracts while he was prime minister a decade ago,
legal documents showed on Tuesday. The anti-corruption...
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