From: Ethical Alliance Daily News - 5 sept 2016

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China: What happened to the billions of yuan seized in China’s anti-graft campaign?
Sep 05, 2016 08:00 pm
President Xi’s campaign targeting both “tigers and flies” has to-date netted thousands of officials, with the total sum of bribes reported to run at least into several tens of billions of yuan, if not hundreds of billions. While China continues […]
When Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was kicked out of power, she became the biggest casualty of a massive corruption probe that is roiling Latin America’s largest country — even though she was never personally implicated in the scheme. With Rousseff’s […]
Another high-ranking Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) official has come under the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) spotlight for alleged abuse of power and corruption. It is learnt that the said official who is with City Hall’s Engineering Mechanical and Electrical […]
South Korea’s anti-corruption commission said Monday the anti-graft law that will go into effect in late September will affect 40,919 organizations, signaling massive changes in gift-exchanging traditions throughout the country. The Kim Young-ran anti-graft law, aims to bring more transparency […]
As the G20 throws the spotlight on global anti-corruption efforts, China has released fresh data on its progress in capturing former officials accused of fleeing abroad with billions in public money. The nation is more than two years into an […]
The Federation of Associations of Small and Medium Enterprises of Cambodia (FASMAC) has sought support from the anti-corruption organization Transparency International, to prepare it to be a graft-free business entity and help its members to be listed on the Cambodia […]

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