Saturday, February 4, 2017

Ethical Alliance Daily News (3 Feb 2017)


 

United States: South Dakota GOP uses ’emergency’ rules to repeal anti-corruption law
Feb 03, 2017 08:00 pm
South Dakota Republicans on Thursday repealed a historic anti-corruption law approved by voters in a statewide referendum on Election Day. The measure, which passed with more than 51% backing in November, would have created an independent ethics commission, limited lobbyist...
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RBS unit Coutts & Co was ordered to pay 6.5 million Swiss francs (US$6.57 million) for breaching money-laundering regulations in its relationship with Malaysian sovereign wealth fund 1MDB, said Switzerland’s financial regulator on Thursday (Feb 2). “The bank failed to...
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Panasonic Corp. fell in Tokyo trading after the company said its in-flight entertainment and communications systems subsidiary is under investigation by U.S. authorities for allegedly breaking bribery and securities laws. The shares fell as much as 2.7 percent to 1,137...
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Brazil’s Supreme Court named a new justice on Thursday(Feb 2) to oversee cases against politicians caught in a giant corruption probe after the previous judicial pointman was killed in an air crash. Justice Edson Fachin, picked to replace the...
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A whopping 80 per cent of corruption cases built against civil servants involved them soliciting from their clients — the public. In cases where they were offered “dirty money”, many were in fact triggered by the fear among “givers” that...
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The city’s anti-graft watchdog has produced an information leaflet and a booklet with guidelines stating it is unlawful to dissuade someone from running in an election by offering benefits, amid suspicions of foul play in the city’s coming leadership race....
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