From: Ethical Alliance Daily News - 13 Sept 2016

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Europe: EU opens ethics probe into Barroso Goldman job
Sep 13, 2016 08:00 pm
EU chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker has launched an unprecedented ethics investigation into his predecessor, Jose Manuel Barroso, questioning whether he broke EU law by taking a job at Goldman Sachs. In a letter released on Sunday by the European Ombudsman […]
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Indian premiere defence research arm Defence Research and Development Organisation’s (DRDO) $208 million deal with Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer has come under the scanner for bribery. The deal was signed in 2008. The probe, undertaken by Brazilian and U.S. prosecutors, […]
Cisco Systems, Inc. CSCO recently announced that the U.S. regulatory authorities have decided not to carry out any enforcement actions against the company with regard to alleged violation of anti-bribery law in Russia and its neighboring countries. Internal Investigation Leads […]
The former Fifa president Sepp Blatter is facing another corruption investigation after the ethics committee of world football’s governing body announced it was opening proceedings against him and his key lieutenants Jérôme Valcke and Markus Kattner. The committee’s investigatory chamber […]
The Kremlin on Monday insisted it was serious about tackling endemic graft in Russia after a top anti-corruption official was busted with over $120 million in cash. Dmitry Zakharchenko, the acting head of an anti-graft agency at the Russian interior […]

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