From: Ethical Alliance Daily News - 5 Aug 2016

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United Kingdom: Honours system is a symbol of ‘very British corruption’, says Steve Hilton
Aug 05, 2016 08:00 pm
David Cameron’s resignation honours list symbolises a “serious type of very British corruption”, a former 10 Downing Street adviser has claimed. Steve Hilton, Mr Cameron’s former strategy guru, has said the recommendations are a symptom of a “corrupt and decaying democracy”. Mr Cameron prompted a furious […]
Othon Luiz Pinheiro da Silva, the former chief executive of Brazil’s nuclear power company Eletronuclear, was sentenced to serve 43 years in prison by a Rio de Janeiro judge late on Wednesday, the Valor Economico newspaper reported. Court and government […]
U.S. authorities said insurance providers Humana Inc and AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co violated sanctions by providing policies to three people blacklisted for alleged ties to narcotraffickers. The U.S. Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), which enforces sanctions […]
A South Korean parliamentary committee on Friday agreed to revise up price ceilings stipulated in the controversial anti-graft law amid rising concerns that the limits on exchanges of gifts may weigh down the consumption of agricultural goods. The Kim Young-ran […]
Italy’s anti-corruption authority is investigating Rome’s public rubbish management agency as concerns grow that waste problems plaguing the capital could turn critical. A spokesman for the ANAC authority confirmed a preliminary investigation, reported by Italian news agency ANSA on Thursday, […]
Braskem SA, Latin America’s largest petrochemical company, said on Thursday it will start talks with U.S. authorities over accusations of corruption linked to a massive graft investigation in Brazil. In its quarterly results statement, the company said talks with the […]

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