The Latest Breaking News from Corruption

The ECJ Super League ruling lays bare how demand for market competition is a weapon wielded by those in power

In Mexico, 111,000 people are classified as disappeared and the country’s morgues hold 52,000 unidentified corpses, bones and remains. The country is going through a crisis in forensic medicine fuelled by a lack of personnel, technology and political will – but also by significant corruption. Families of the disappeared have…

Leonard Glenn Francis set to be sentenced for bribing scores of Navy officials after Venezuela included him in prisoner swap with White House, writes Graeme Massie

For the ruling DMK in Tamil Nadu, the conviction of one of its deputy general secretaries at a time when it is facing a barrage of corruption charges, is an undoubted political setback

Albania’s parliament has voted to lift the legal immunity of former Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who leads the opposition Democratic Party and is being probed for possible corruption

Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party replaced two of its top executives as part of a purge related to investigations into alleged political slush funds.

The global cocaine market is changing. "The market is changing," Nathan Jaccard, Latin America editor for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a consortium of investigative journalists which accessed the files, told AFP. Colombia cultivated a record 230,000 hectares of coca leaf in 2022, and produced 1,738 tonnes…

The European Union has agreed to start accession talks with Ukraine next year. But further progress will depend on the country meeting tough conditions, particularly in the fight against corruption. Many of those conditions are actually defined not by Brussels, but by Ukrainian civil society activists, who ask the EU…

Former and current elected officials comment on the conviction of the longest-serving, once-powerful dean of the Chicago City Council. ‘The tyranny of Ed Burke is over,’ former Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

A federal jury has convicted former Chicago Alderman Ed Burke on 13 counts of corruption alleging he used his power to win private law business from developers

The stakes are as high as the wait is long in DR Congo. Voting rolled over for an unscheduled second day in a sprawling, often unruly Central African nation that’s picking a president, as well as national, regional and municipal lawmakers. The logistics are challenging and the politics are rough…