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Saudi Arabia seizes over $106bn in anti-graft driveSaudi Arabia has generated more than $106.7 billion in financial settlements with officials and businessmen detained in its recent crackdown on corruption, media reports said. Fifty-six of the 381 people called in for questioning More… |
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Saudi Arabia frees all detainees from RitzSaudi Arabian authorities have released all the detainees in the corruption probe, including top businessmen, former government officials as well as princes, from the Ritz Carlton Hotel, that served as a jail for the country’s elite during More… |
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Saudi billionaire, media tycoon released in key graft dealTwo of Saudi Arabia’s richest businessmen were released after reaching an agreement to settle corruption allegations as the kingdom seeks to wrap up a crackdown that saw dozens of billionaires and princes locked up in the Ritz Carlton fo More… |
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Decades of corruption cost $100bn says Saudi officialSaudi Arabian authorities have announced that an on-going three-year investigation has revealed that, at minimum, an estimated $100 billion has been misused by way of systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades. Sa More… |
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Saudi King issues anti-graft orders; key ministers removedSaudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has issued a series of orders that included relieving Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz from office in an anti-corruptaion drive, reports said. The royal orders included forma More… |
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Indian banks, ATMs continue to see chaosIndia continues to see chaos at its banks and ATM machines, three days after the Prime Minister demonetized the country's 500 ($7) amd 1,000 ($15) rupee notes as part of anti-corruption measures, said a report. People queued u More… |
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Iraqi finance minister sacked over corruptionIraq's parliament removed Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari from office on Wednesday over corruption allegations, a move that risks further destabilising the major Opec producer's fragile economy as it struggles with a massive budget defi More… |
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UK opens corruption probe into Airbus salesBritain's Serious Fraud Office has launched a formal investigation into suspected fraud, bribery and corruption in connection with commercial plane sales by Airbus, parent company Airbus Group said on Sunday. A UK government a More… |
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Iraq to begin probe into Unaoil corruption chargesIraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi on Saturday directed the country's highest corruption watchdog to investigate claims of graft in the awarding of oil contracts by the Opec exporter and urged the courts to prosecute. A join More… |
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Brazil's ex-president Lula detained over graft probeFormer Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was briefly detained for questioning on Friday in a federal investigation of a vast corruption scheme, fanning a political crisis that threatens to topple his successor, President Dilma Rousse More… |
