Corruption

An Illinois police officer and associate of the so-called “worst mayor in America” has been indicted on bankruptcy and fraud charges.

Ugandan police arrested at least 42 young protesters and charged them with disorderly conduct on Tuesday after they gathered outside the parliament building in Kampala to demonstrate against government corruption.

Kamala Harris, endorsed by Joe Biden as his replacement in the 2024 presidential race, has a history as a prosecutor that shows “collective favoritism to criminal networks and organizations linked to her political allies,” Peter Schweizer said on Breitbart News Daily.

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was found guilty on all counts on Tuesday in his federal corruption trial.

Former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke, who was once one of the most powerful officials in the city, was handed a two-year prison sentence Monday.

A mayor in Florida shocked residents by resigning after issuing a letter to his neighbors about “corruptive behavior” among local leaders.

George Norcross, a businessman and fixture in New Jersey politics known for decades as one of the state’s most powerful unelected Democrats, was indicted on Monday on charges of racketeering and other crimes related to his real estate ventures.

The home of a New Jersey Democrat, who has been accused of accepting bribes and using his power as an elected official to benefit the Egyptian government, was searched and discovered to be holding more than $600,000 in cash and gold bars.

A Democrat congressman accused of bribery spent roughly half of the money for his 2024 campaign on legal services, according to data from the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

Socialist Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has refused to step down amid allegations of corruption against his wife.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro accused former Oil Minister Tareck El Aissami of conspiring with America to steal oil profits.

Ukraine’s farm minister was ordered into detention Saturday as he faces organized crime charges, the latest high-profile corruption investigation among dozens now flooding the country’s court system.

Haitian civil society groups argue that France should pay at least $150 billion in reparations to Haiti for slavery and its aftermath.

Voting begins on Friday in India’s massive election for the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the national Parliament.

A court in Ho Chi Minh City rushed on Thursday to sentence real estate tycoon Truong My Lan, one of the richest women in the world, to death for her part in a $12.5 billion fraud case.

South Africa’s top election court on Tuesday overturned an election commission ban on former President Jacob Zuma, clearing the way for Zuma to run in the May 29 election despite having been jailed in 2021 for refusing to testify in a corruption probe.

Tareck El Aissami, former Venezuelan oil minister, has resurfaced in handcuffs, charged with treason, money laundering, and corruption.

Exit polls in South Korea’s midterm elections on Wednesday predicted a landslide win for the left-wing Democratic Party (DP) and its “sister party,” the Democratic United Party (DUP).

Conservatives in South Korea urged voters to help them stop an “immoral and shameless” left from taking a majority in the National Assembly on Tuesday, the eve of midterm elections preceded by a chaotic campaign season featuring stabbings, corruption allegations, and alleged North Korean interference.

Senegal’s outspoken and combative opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was disqualified from running for president in the March 24 presidential election, but he had the last laugh on Thursday when his former lieutenant Bassirou Diomaye Faye appointed him as prime minister. Faye ran in Sonko’s place and won a resounding victory with over 54 percent of the vote.

Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong was abruptly removed from office on Thursday for allegedly violating the rules of the Communist Party.

The Ukrainian government is reportedly considering an end to its “International Sponsors of War” blacklist, which lists major companies that are passively funding the Russian invasion by continuing to do business in Russia, because China and France strongly object to the naming and shaming of their corporations.

The Brazilian newspaper O Globo revealed on Wednesday that prosecutors in the country are pursuing charges of money laundering and fraud against 25-year-old Jair Renan Bolsonaro, the youngest son of the nation’s eponymous ex-president.

At least two U.S. federal agents working with a group of informants and straw men in Mexico were allegedly able to set up a sophisticated money laundering operation based out of Mexico City’s airport. The operation reportedly ran during the Obama-Biden administration between 2010 and 2019. The two agents apparently have not faced any prosecution and are reportedly still employed by the U.S. government.

Prosecutors charged Argentina’s socialist former President Alberto Fernández on Thursday with embezzlement of funds as part of an investigation into irregularities in insurance contracting allegedly committed during his administration, which ended in December.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, already jailed on corruption and national security charges, was indicted on Tuesday on charges that he and his wife Bushra Bibi accepted parcels of land as bribes when Khan was in office.

Prosecutor Mario Villar is requesting an increase to the six-year prison sentence for former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.

Russian officials are reportedly refusing to release the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his family after his sudden death in an Arctic prison camp on February 16.

Hundreds of mourners gathered at monuments in cities across Russia on Friday to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who reportedly died under murky circumstances in a brutal prison camp at the age of 47 on Friday, was a fierce critic of strongman Vladimir Putin and the corruption of the Russian elite.

Just one day after receiving a ten-year sentence for mishandling documents, former Pakistani PM Imran Khan got 14 years for corruption.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to another ten years in prison for mishandling security documents.

Ukrainian defence ministry officials are accused of conspiring with an arms firm to embezzle almost $40 million earmarked to buy weapons.

The U.S. State Department imposed sanctions on former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei on Wednesday, banning him and his sons from entering the United States because of his alleged “involvement in significant corruption.”

Donald Trump would be a strong candidate in the 2024 election because he got the big issues right in 2016, says a startling article by a New York Times’ foremost Never Trumper, Bret Stephens.

Chinese dictator Xi Jinping ordered the Communist Party’s discipline agency to engage in a more intense campaign against the “cancer” of corruption, the state news outlet Xinhua reported on Wednesday, calling the situation within the Party “grave and complex.”