Tag: Corruption
Sarkozy under threat of trial
Nicolas Sarkozy soon again on the bench of the defendants? This is what the National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) is asking for, which on Thursday May 11 requested a criminal…
the financial prosecutor’s office opens a judicial inquiry into the Marianne fund
The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) opened a judicial investigation on Thursday May 4 into suspicions of “embezzlement of public funds” in the management of the Marianne fund, created in…
justice tracks dishonest officials
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the justice system is working to track down fictitious civil servants, duplicates and false agents. Fraud which causes the State to lose up…
Auchan’s Russian subsidiary under investigation for suspicion of corruption
The procedure was opened by the French national financial prosecutor’s office in 2020 but the information, revealed by the newspaper Les Échos and the magazine Challenges, was confirmed this weekend…
He was accused of corruption! USA extradited former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo to his country!
The United States has decided to extradite former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, who is accused of corruption. Toledo was sent to Barbadillo Prison in the capital, Lima, after he arrived…
first convictions in a corruption scandal
A Tokyo court on Friday (April 21) sentenced the former president of a Japanese company sponsor of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and two collaborators to suspended prison sentences. The…
a government official guilty of corruption escapes from a police station
The Iraqi authorities have for several months been carrying out a campaign of arrests of officials and businessmen implicated in large-scale corruption in the country and in particular arrested Saad…
Corruption, sexual harassment… When ChatGPT accuses Internet users of imaginary crimes
This is a very cruel biography that ChatGPT makes of Brian Hood. When you ask OpenAI’s famous chatbot for information about this Australian mayor in charge of the city of…
Anti-corruption crackdown in Venezuela amid political purge
Colombian businessman Alvaro Pulido, partner of Venezuelan envoy Alex Saab, was arrested in the latter’s country. This comes as Nicolas Maduro’s government launched a massive anti-corruption operation in mid-March. In…
Is the world of football corrupt?
The only candidate, Alexander Ceferin, was re-elected on Wednesday (5 April 2023) by acclamation as UEFA President for a third term. The European football organization must face a scandal currently…