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Bribery and corruption

  • Friday, 27 December, 2024
    Israel
    Israel’s attorney-general orders probe into Sara Netanyahu

    Prime minister’s wife accused of harassing witnesses and obstructing justice in her husband’s corruption cases

    Benjamin Netanyahu hugs his wife, Sara
  • Monday, 23 December, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    UK Serious Fraud Office spent £16mn on botched Unaoil investigation

    Costs breakdown provided after prosecutor lost bid to block FT freedom of information request

    The Serious Fraud Office in central London
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Israel
    Netanyahu decries ‘libel and lies’ in first corruption trial testimony

    Israeli prime minister takes to the stand to fight graft allegations that he has dismissed as a dangerous distraction

    Benjamin Netanyahu at the court in Tel Aviv on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Israel
    Netanyahu arrives in court to testify in corruption trial

    Israeli PM accuses legal authorities of pursuing a witch-hunt against him

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a press conference
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    South Africa
    McKinsey’s $122mn bribery settlement in South Africa sparks outrage

    Politicians and campaigners say penalty is insufficient as country struggles with corruption

    Former South African President Jacob Zuma at a press conference in October 2022
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Swiss prosecutors demand 4-year jail sentence for former Trafigura COO

    Michael Wainwright accused of being ‘linchpin’ of scheme to bribe Angolan official

    Michael Wainwright  leaving the Federal Criminal Court in Bellinzona, Switerzerland on December 2 2024
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Trafigura used dozens of ‘high risk’ middlemen, court told in bribery case

    Prosecutors allege commodity trader paid more than €5mn in bribes via third parties to Angolan government official

    Exterior of the federal criminal court in Bellinzona, Switzerland, where the case is being heard
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    McKinsey
    McKinsey pays $122mn to resolve probes into South Africa bribes

    Deferred prosecution agreement covers corruption scandal involving state-owned companies during Zuma presidency

    McKinsey and Company logo
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Europe Express
    Why does the EU’s fraud watchdog still lack access to the European parliament? Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: German-Russian tension on the high seas

    Ville Itälä
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    Trafigura
    Trafigura loses attempt to have star witness struck from bribery trial

    Company is first commodity trader to face trial for corruption in Switzerland

    Mike Wainwright
  • Sunday, 24 November, 2024
    News in-depthAdani Group
    Fate of Adani alleged bribery case could hang on Trump presidency

    Justice department’s prosecution of Indian billionaire has wide economic and diplomatic implications

    Gautam Adani
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    Thales SA
    Thales denies allegations by UK and French agencies over suspected bribery

    Serious Fraud Office and Parquet National Financier open joint probe into arms contract in Asia

    A Starstreak LML (Lightweight Multiple Launcher) missile system on display at the Thales weapons manufacturer facility in Belfast. The system consists of three green missile tubes mounted on a base, surrounded by electronic equipment
  • Thursday, 21 November, 2024
    Money laundering
    UK imposes sanctions on Isabel dos Santos in money laundering crackdown

    Africa’s former richest woman and exiled Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash among trio hit by measures

    Isabel dos Santos
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Trafigura
    Swiss prosecutors accuse Trafigura of paying €5mn in bribes to Angolan official

    Unsealed indictment alleges the company’s late founder, Claude Dauphin, masterminded the scheme

    Trafigura Geneva offices
  • Monday, 18 November, 2024
    British Overseas Territories
    UK MPs call for transparency to help tackle tax evasion in overseas territories

    Speedy establishment of public registers of beneficial ownership seen as vital in crackdown

    A signpost with various destinations such as Liverpool, Sri Lanka, and New York stands next to the clear blue-green waters at Rum Point dock on Grand Cayman's north side. A long pier stretches out into the sea under a partly cloudy sky, with palm trees and lounge chairs in the foreground.
  • Thursday, 14 November, 2024
    Financial fraud
    Italy arrests dozens over €520mn ‘mafia tax fraud’

    Luxury cars and boats among items seized over widespread VAT fraud scheme, says European prosecutor

    Guardia di Finanza
  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    Serious Fraud Office given extra funding to fight financial crime

    Money will be used to reform how the UK agency manages its cases and handles evidence

    The Serious Fraud Office
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Travel & leisure industry
    Police raid French football league and CVC in corruption investigation

    Prosecutors examining allegations of wrongdoing linked to deal that created broadcasting rights subsidiary

    Paris Saint-Germain team playing against Olympique de Marseille at the Velodrome stadium in Marseille, France on October 27 2024
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Defence group RTX to pay $950mn to resolve US charges over Qatar bribes

    Prosecutors said the company paid $30mn to a cousin of the Qatari Emir to facilitate weapons sales

    US soldier with a missile launch system
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Serious Fraud Office UK
    ENRC drops media leaks lawsuit as SFO escapes paying damages

    UK agency still potentially on hook for damages over mishandled probe into mining group

    A sign outside the headquarters of the Serious Fraud Office in London
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation
    SFO and ENRC give themselves a day to settle legal battle

    UK agency has been found liable for mis-steps in decade-long probe of Kazakh mining group

    A copper mine operated by ENRC in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    Singapore
    Singapore charges billionaire in gifts scandal involving ex-minister

    Ong Beng Seng accused of abetting S Iswaran who was sentenced to a year in prison this week

    Ong Beng Seng, wearing a black face mask and glasses, arrives at the State Court in Singapore. He is surrounded by several people, some of whom are taking photographs.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    Singapore
    Former Singapore transport minister sentenced to year in jail over gifts

    S Iswaran becomes city-state’s first cabinet official to be imprisoned in nearly 50 years

    S. Iswaran walking outside the Supreme Court in Singapore surrounded by photographers and media personnel
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    French politics
    Marine Le Pen on trial over EU expenses scandal

    French far-right leader accused of paying her European parliament staff to do work for RN party in France

    Marine Le Pen
  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    Singapore
    Singapore’s former transport minister pleads guilty to receiving gifts

    S Iswaran admits five charges in twist at start of rare trial in city-state

    S Iswaran arrives at the High Court. He is accompanied by several photographers and journalists taking pictures of his arrival.
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