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Ukraine ministers resign over major corruption scandals
AFP, Published on 13/11/2025
» KYIV (UKRAINE) - Ukraine's energy and justice ministers resigned on Wednesday over their alleged involvement in a sweeping corruption scandal in the country's energy sector.
Ex-IMF chief Rato gets four-year jail term in Spain for tax crimes
AFP, Published on 20/12/2024
» MADRID - A Madrid court sentenced ex-IMF chief and Spanish economy minister Rodrigo Rato to more than four years in prison for tax crimes, money laundering and corruption, it said Friday.
Three Japanese ministers resign over kickbacks scandal
AFP, Published on 14/12/2023
» TOKYO - Three Japanese government ministers tendered their resignations on Thursday over a major corruption scandal in the ruling party.
Hundreds face sentencing in historic Italian mafia trial
AFP, Published on 20/11/2023
» LAMEZIA TERME, Italy: Hundreds of alleged mobsters were being sentenced on Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Hundreds face sentencing in historic Italian mafia trial
AFP, Published on 20/11/2023
» LAMEZIA TERME (ITALY) - Hundreds of alleged mobsters will be sentenced Monday by an Italian court, the culmination of a historic, nearly three-year trial against Calabria's notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia.
Airbus pays 15.9m euros to close French corruption probe
AFP, Published on 01/12/2022
» PARIS: A French judge on Wednesday allowed European aerospace firm Airbus to pay 15.9 million euros ($16.4 million) to avoid a corruption probe into aircraft deals in Libya and Kazakhstan between 2006 and 2011.
More cunning than the 'old fox': Sri Lanka's presumptive president
AFP, Published on 19/07/2022
» COLOMBO: Acting Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is favourite to take the country's reins long term on Wednesday, as parliament votes to appoint a full successor to Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Credit Suisse to pay $475m to settle charges in Mozambique 'hidden debt' scandal
AFP, Published on 20/10/2021
» NEW YORK: Credit Suisse has agreed to pay $475 million to US and British authorities to resolve charges of "fraudulently misleading investors" and violating anticorruption law in the bond offerings in Mozambique, US officials announced Tuesday.
Michael Keaton confronts US opioid crisis in 'Dopesick'
AFP, Published on 10/10/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Before he became Batman, Michael Keaton made his dramatic film debut in "Clean and Sober," an unflinching look at drug addiction during the United States' 1980s cocaine craze.
Biden taps LA Mayor Garcetti as ambassador to India
AFP, Published on 10/07/2021
» WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, an ambitious star in his Democratic Party, to be ambassador to India, with which the United States has an increasingly close relationship.