Gloves come off in corruption case. “The Public Warehouse Organisation (PWO) [under the Ministry of Commerce Thailand] has fired three senior officials for alleged corruption in the purchase of 112.5-billion-baht (approx. US$3.3 billio) worth of rubber gloves and ordered them to pay 2 billion baht (approx. US$59 million) compensation in damages.”
Phusadee Arunmas/Bangkok Post: https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/2193591/gloves-come-off-in-corruption-case
Coordinating ministers named in Pandora Papers. “Two of Indonesia’s coordinating ministers are mentioned in the latest leak of financial documents, dubbed the Pandora Papers, which revealed they had established offshore shellcopmanies in tax havens, allegedly tying them to unreported wealth stored overseas…Among them are Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investment Minister Luhut Pandjaitan and Coordinating Economic Affairs Minister Airlangga Hartarto”
Dio Suhenda and Yerica Lai/The Jakarta Post: https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2021/10/05/coordinating-ministers-named-in-pandora-papers.html
Mongolia: implementation of imprisonment sentence for corruption crimes. “According to the report, 203 people were convicted in 95 cases, 26 people were acquitted in 17 cases, 10 cases involving 26 people were dismissed, of which 5 cases were dismissed on the grounds that the statute of limitations had expired...[An] issue mentioned in the study is that the percentage of convicts released before the end of their sentence is relatively high, at 60-80 percent of all convicts of corruption crime in a given year.”
Independent Authority Against Corruption of Mongolia: https://www.iaac.mn/news/mongolia-implementation-of-imprisonment-sentence-for-corruption-crimes/
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