From: Ethical Alliance Daily News - 11 July 2016

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World: Emerging market companies show low levels of transparency, allowing corruption to thrive
Jul 11, 2016 08:30 pm
The vast majority of the world’s biggest emerging market companies have failed when it comes to transparency, creating an environment for corruption to thrive in their businesses and in the places they operate. A new report from Transparency International reveals […]
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Taiwan: US returns to Taiwan gains linked to corrupt ex-president
Jul 11, 2016 08:00 pm
The United States said Thursday it is returning $1.5 million to Taiwan from the sale of two homes bought with alleged bribes by the family of disgraced former president Chen Shui-bian. The Justice Department said it had sold a condo […]
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Ukraine: ‘We Were Shocked': Top Ukraine Official Arrested Over Bribery
Jul 11, 2016 07:30 pm
Ukraine’s deputy health minister Roman Vasylyshyn was arrested on Thursday over bribery allegations, becoming the country’s first high-ranking official to be accused of corruption since the April 2015 election of a new cabinet. Vasylyshyn was caught receiving money “from sick […]
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United States: Ex-Louis Berger execs sentenced in U.S. over foreign bribe scheme
Jul 11, 2016 07:00 pm
Two former executives at New Jersey-based construction management company Louis Berger have been sentenced for their roles in a scheme to secure government contracts by bribing foreign officials, U.S. prosecutors said. James McClung, 60, was sentenced on Thursday by U.S. […]
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Hong Kong: Chief executive denies any part in removal of top Hong Kong graft-buster
Jul 11, 2016 06:30 pm
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying has dismissed allegations he was behind the removal of the city’s top anti-corruption investigator. Days after Rebecca Li Bo-lan – the first woman to head the powerful investigative unit of the Independent Commission Against Corruption – […]
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South Africa: Corruption seeps into South Africa’s R26 billion water project: report
Jul 11, 2016 06:00 pm
Water affairs and sanitation minister Nomvula Mokonyane is in the cross-hairs of the Public Protector after delaying South Africa’s Lesotho Highlands Water Project, allegedly to award contracts to a company she has a long-standing relationship with. This is according to […]
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