Bangladesh journalist arrested / Indonesia graft fighters suspended / India questionable COVID fund
Rozina Islam: Bangladesh arrests journalist for COVID reporting. “The arrest of a female Bangladeshi investigative reporter who wrote scathing stories on the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has triggered protests by hundreds of reporters. Rozina Islam, an investigative journalist for Prothom Alo newspaper, the country’s largest circulated newspaper, was detained…under the Official Secrets Act, police said.
Job insecurity leaves KPK workers demoralized. “The Idul Fitri holiday season is usually a time for celebration for many Indonesian employees, marked with an annual bonus and…a lengthy paid leave period. But this was not the case for 75 Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) employees this year, who received a letter signed by the antigraft body’s chairman Firli Bahuri on their suspension from their duties and responsibilities within the commission, leaving their future with the commission hanging by a thread.”
The Jakarta Post: https://www.thejakartapost.com/paper/2021/05/18/job-insecurity-leaves-kpk-workers-demoralized.html
Corruption at the Heart of India’s Coronavirus Crisis? Prime Minister Modi Must Answer for the PM Cares Fund (Blog). “This lack of transparency is made possible because, in contrast to existing programs like the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF), the PM Cares Fund was set up as a charitable trust rather than a public authority, putting it outside the scope of India’s Right to Information (RTI) law and other rules that apply to public authorities.”
Disha Verma/The Global Anticorruption Blog: https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2021/05/14/corruption-at-the-heart-of-indias-coronavirus-crisis-prime-minister-modi-must-answer-for-the-pm-cares-fund/