Tag Archives: corruption

Nairobi, Kenya | AFP | The Tanzanian government said Sunday it had confiscated diamonds worth nearly $30 million after accusing British company Petra Diamonds of having declared a lower value when trying to export the gems. Speaking on government television channel TBC 1, Finance Minister Philip Mpango said the diamonds extracted …

President condemns those making fake & exorbitant claims for compensation Mubende, Uganda | PPU |  President Yoweri Museveni has condemned people who make fake and exorbitant claims as compensation for their pieces of land that government wants to acquire to pave way for infrastructure development programmes. The President made the comments when he featured …

Lausanne, Switzerland | AFP |  The Rio 2016 cash-for-votes inquiry in Brazil has placed the International Olympic Committee under a fresh cloud of corruption less than a week before it is due to award the 2024 Games to Paris. Almost two decades after its image took a battering with the …

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | AFP |  Brazilian officials said that the country’s Olympics chief was the “lynchpin” in a plot to bribe the International Olympic Committee into awarding Rio de Janeiro last year’s Games. Brazilian police said in a statement they were probing “an international corruption scheme” aimed at …

Sao Paulo, Brazil | AFP |  Brazilian police on Tuesday found suitcases overflowing with millions of dollars worth of cash in an apartment believed to be linked to a former government minister accused of corruption. There was so much money in the apartment in the northeastern city of Salvador, which …

Johannesburg, South Africa | AFP | A long-running corruption scandal in South Africa has embroiled President Jacob Zuma, senior ministers and the wealthy Indian Gupta brothers — but now Zuma’s own son has taken centre-stage. Duduzane Zuma, a 35-year-old businessman with a playboy reputation, is alleged to be the key contact …

Hanoi, Vietnam | AFP |  A former banking magnate and 50 others went on trial in Vietnam Monday over a multi-million dollar fraud at a major private bank, as the communist nation cracks down on corruption in the sector. Authorities have vowed to clean up an industry plagued by favouritism …

Lagos, Nigeria | AFP |  A Nigerian court seized $21 million on Monday from bank accounts linked to a former oil minister accused of corruption as investigators continue to claw back her fortune. Federal high court judge Abdulazeez Anka ordered the immediate forfeiture of 7.6 billion naira ($21 million, 17.9 …

  Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI | Bailed former UBC Managing Director Paul Kihika has been taken back to Luzira Prison, this time by the Nakawa Chief Magistrates Court on charges of giving false information to police. Kihika had on Monday been released on bail by the Anti-Corruption Court on charges …

Kampala, Uganda | GODFREY SSALI |  The former Acting Managing Director of Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) Paul Kihika has been arraigned before the Anti-Corruption Court where he faces charges of embezzlement, plus an alternative count of causing his employer a financial loss of $9,510. He has been remanded to Luzira Prison. Court …