John Maylam, potato buyer for Sainsbury's has admitted accepting bribes valued at £5m from potato producer Greenvale, including lavish hospitality and payments to foreign bank accounts between 2006 and 2008. read more
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The Transparency International (TI) corruption watchdog has concluded that in the period from 2007 to 2009, the Czech courts dealt mainly with small corruption cases, and only dealt with sophisticated cases to a limited extent. read more
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On 17 April 2012, a Warsaw court jailed Polish former Sports Minister Tomasz Lipiec for three-and-a-half years for corruption. read more
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On 5 April, arms-dealer Viktor Bout was sentenced by a New York judge to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit US $15 million. read more
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There have been two recent developments in relation to the investigations being undertaken by the City of London Police into potential bribery issues at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). read more
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On 17 April 2012, James Ibori was sentenced to 13 years imprisonment by a British court for money laundering offences. read more
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The Egyptian Ministry of Justice has accused British authorities of violations of the UN Convention against Corruption and an EU regulation on the freezing of assets and has publicly criticised the UK for failing to co-operate with Egyptian attempts to repatriate frozen assets. read more
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On 2 April 2012, a Federal High Court in Lagos struck out the 26 count criminal charges, including money laundering and granting unsecured loans, that had been filed against Erastus Akingbola, the former CEO of Intercontinental Bank Plc. It was alleged that he had stolen N364 billion from the bank. read more
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A report by Transparency International has analysed a range of critical societal institutions in Greece and assessed their ability to prevent corruption. read more
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Last month, the OECD Working Group on Bribery published its latest report on the UK's implementation and enforcement of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. read more
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Last month, the OECD Working Group on Bribery published its latest report on the UK's implementation and enforcement of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions. read more
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Two former executives of a subsidiary of Volvo have been convicted of paying bribes to Saddam Hussein's former regime in Iraq. Rune Lundberg and Hakan Nirstedt were found by the Swedish court to have paid $3.6 million in order to secure contracts for their company, Volvo Construction Equipment International AB (VCEI). read more
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Siemens has agreed to pay around €270 million in settlement of a claim relating to bribing Greek officials. read more
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After just three weeks in the job, Peter Cruddas was forced to resign as Conservative co-treasurer after the publication of secretly filmed footage, taken by undercover Sunday Times reporters, allegedly showing Mr Cruddas offering access to David Cameron and a friendly ear from the Tory policy board to high-end donors. read more
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Coutts Bank has been hit with an £8.75m fine by the Financial Service Authority for anti-money laundering control failings. read more
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Former Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, has resigned from Fianna Fail following a 3,270 page report, which was published by the Mahon Tribunal on 22 March 2012. read more
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The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the inter-governmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of national and international policies to combat money laundering, the financing of terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, recently announced recommendations designed specifically to tackle tax evasion. read more
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If South African President Jacob Zuma thought that allegations of corruption against him were in the past he received unpleasant news this week. read more
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Former Chairman Tsuyoshi Kikukawa and two other executives at leading camera manufacturer Olympus have been arrested in connection with their alleged involvement in an accounting fraud. read more
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On 14 February 2012, Romanian courts convicted Decebal Traian Remes and Ioan Avram Muresan, both former ministers of agriculture, of corruption and sentenced both to three years in prison. read more
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