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Anti-Corruption Daily Newsletter for 08/03/2020
Anti-Corruption Daily Newsletter for 08/03/2020
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Your source for international risk & compliance related news, insights, and best practices.
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The new home of the FCPA Newswire edited by Mike Kenealy
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Anti Corruption Digest is the most comprehensive source for global risk & compliance related news, insights, and best practices.
Readers are welcome to research the Anti Corruption Digest’s curated database of over fifteen thousand risk and compliance related articles, offer comments on any article as well as submit material for publication.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:58 am
MANILA, Philippines — Corrupt local government officials should be dismissed immediately and prosecuted, President Rodrigo Duterte said in a taped press briefing aired late on Sunday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:57 am
Democrats have always been a party of special-interest factions without a lot in common, who work together by trading favors that each wants. This morning’s Politico Illinois Playbook perfectly captures the strange-bedfellow dynamic.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:55 am
The more overweight the politicians in a government from the former Soviet Union are, the more likely that government is to be corrupt, a new study has found.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:54 am
Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest member state, is currently in the fourth week of the largest anti-government mobilization in years. Despite fears surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of protestors are taking to the streets every night in the capital Sofia and other cities. They are demanding the resignation of attorney general Ivan Geshev and long-serving prime minister Boyko Borissov, who has governed the country on and off for over eleven years.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:52 am
BEIRUT: Lebanon is failing to respond to demands from the international community that reforms should be implemented as a condition for receiving aid, even as a US law threatens to pursue those who have brought the Middle Eastern country to its knees.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:51 am
Rami Makhlouf is not a man accustomed to hardship. The Syrian businessman and first cousin of the country’s ruler, Bashar al-Assad, has made a fortune in Syria, owning until recently one of Syria’s two mobile phone networks.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:49 am
South Africa has registered more than half a million confirmed cases of Covid-19, health officials have said, as the government struggles to retain public trust amid allegations of widespread corruption, arbitrary decisions on restrictions and administrative incompetence.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:49 am
The scientific community has time and time again advised that Covid-19 is lethal to people who have pre-existing conditions. It seems to be true also that Covid-19 has shown that countries with pre-existing governance deficits and prone to corruption are turning out to be looters’ paradises.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:39 am
Recent attempts to bring some companies in line – whether internal or external – have raised a few eyebrows.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:37 am
The next wave of computing will create opportunities for increased target reach, a deeper understanding of consumers, and new data collection types. Where will this take place?
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:36 am
Organisations need to understand that Covid-19 comes with a level of extreme uncertainty and that the old ways of operating have become obsolete. Board members need to participate as a team that is hands on rather than a team that meets occasionally, then disperse into the shadows till they meet again. Covid-19 has made it essential for organisations to have board members that are part of the implementation process and running of the new strategies.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:35 am
Recently, there have been significant developments towards a more stakeholder-oriented governance model, as evidenced by, among other things, the
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:33 am
South America is the new epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic, but the region's leaders have responded to the crisis very differently.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:32 am
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a R70 billion (US$4.3 billion) loan for South Africa to help the country manage the immediate consequences of the fallout from Covid-19. The Conversation Africa’s editor, Caroline Southey, asked Danny Bradlow to shed some light on what South Africans should expect.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:31 am
The world’s oceans occupy over 70 percent of the earth’s surface, playing a significant role in the support of the socio-economic growth and development of nations. These oceans provide a source of livelihood for many people through fishing, shipping and logistics, exploration of hydrocarbons and petroleum resources, exploitation of mineral resources, as well as leisure.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:17 am
Sending money offshore while bypassing the main banks is lucrative business. Two linked operations processed well over $400 million of transactions between 2015 and 2019 in breach of laws designed to deter money laundering. Now they have been punished. Martin van Beynen reports.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:16 am
A San Jose police officer used a private security company to evade taxes, steal wages, commit insurance fraud and launder more than $18 million, authorities said Friday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:09 am
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday registered a money laundering case in connection with an FIR lodged by the father of actor Sushant Singh Rajput, alleging cheating, criminal conspiracy and abetment of suicide.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:08 am
The NSW Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority's inquiry is investigating revelations by The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and 60 Minutes that Crown went into business with "junket" tour operators linked to organised crime and was used to launder suspected drug money.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:06 am
SEOUL, South Korea: Money laundering is not a good idea, as a South Korean found out when he or she put banknotes in a washing machine to remove possible traces of the coronavirus.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:05 am
Tanzania on Monday urged the Southern African Development Community (SADC) members to join forces in the fight against money laundering and terrorism financing which were likely to disturb economies of the region.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:04 am
Clinging to power with a razor-thin majority, the government that snatched office in March brandishes a dictatorial bludgeon to batter the media.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:02 am
After trials that stretched over a decade, the Belgrade High Court sentenced on Friday 13 Serbian members of a criminal group led by drug lord Darko Šarić, who was sent behind bars for nine years for laundering millions of dirty drug money.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 11:02 am
The phrase “shell company” conjures images of offshore havens such as Panama or the British Virgin Islands, but one of the world’s leading enablers of financial secrecy is actually the United States. In every state, more personal details and proof of identity are required to get a library card than to form a company; the United States is one of the last advanced economies not to require company ownership information that could help crack down on terrorists, drug kingpins, and those evading U.S. sanctions.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 10:48 am
Hackers have broken into real news websites and posted fake stories stirring up anti-Nato sentiment, a cyber-security firm has warned.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 10:46 am
Ransomware has been around for more than three decades, so it's hardly an unexpected threat. And yet, organisations large and small are still being taken
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 10:44 am
While some initially thought the hack was the work of professionals, it turns out the “mastermind” of one of the most high-profile hacks in recent years was a 17-year-old recent high school graduate from Florida, the authorities said on Friday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 10:43 am
Telstra has backtracked from claims it was the victim of a cyber attack after thousands of people across Australia reported outages on Sunday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 10:43 am
Most countries in Latin America do not have the necessary infrastructure to respond to cybersecurity events, but Uruguay appears as one of the best prepared to deal with these attacks.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Aug 03, 2020 10:39 am
A cyber cold war is raging between Iran and Israel as another Iranian group early Friday claimed to have launched a series of cyberattacks on Israel’s rail infrastructure since July 14, Anadolu Agency reports.
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Anti-Corruption Daily Newsletter for 07/31/2020
Anti-Corruption Daily Newsletter for 07/31/2020
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Your source for international risk & compliance related news, insights, and best practices.
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The new home of the FCPA Newswire edited by Mike Kenealy
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Anti Corruption Digest is the most comprehensive source for global risk & compliance related news, insights, and best practices.
Readers are welcome to research the Anti Corruption Digest’s curated database of over fifteen thousand risk and compliance related articles, offer comments on any article as well as submit material for publication.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 09:05 am
MANILA - Results of the Presidential Anti-Crime Commission's (PACC) investigation into state insurance agency PhilHealth will be released "very soon," an official said Thursday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 09:03 am
SINGAPORE: UAE-based oil trader GP Global has uncovered fraud within the company and filed criminal complaints against some of its employees, its legal representative said in a letter to the company’s clients on its behalf.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:55 am
BOLIVIA: Thousands of Bolivians marched in El Alto yesterday on the first day of a general strike to protest a decision to delay the presidential election again due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Bolivian Workers’ Center union (COB), which organized the strike, is demanding that the Supreme Electoral Tribunal reverse
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:54 am
Paris — A former Airbus subsidiary will face trial on corruption charges in Britain in September over Saudi Arabian contracts dating back a decade, the company and the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Thursday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:52 am
Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest member state, is currently in the fourth week of the largest anti-government mobilization in years. Despite fears surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, tens of thousands of protestors are taking to the streets every night in the capital Sofia and other cities. They are demanding the resignation of attorney general Ivan Geshev and long-serving prime minister Boyko Borissov, who has governed the country on and off for over eleven years.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:51 am
The Iraqi government on Thursday said that 560 people were killed in the mass popular protests across the country against the former government led by Adel Abdul-Mahdi, Anadolu Agency reports.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:50 am
Those caught not wearing face masks in public places or closed crowded areas will be slapped a fine of Dh3,000 immediately, Abu Dhabi Police have said in a renewed warning.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:48 am
KUALA LUMPUR – China denied Thursday it was harboring a fugitive financier wanted over the massive 1MDB corruption scandal, after Malaysian police said he was hiding in Macau.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:47 am
Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak said Tuesday he will appeal his conviction of seven criminal charges in connection with the looting of state-owned 1MDB (1Malaysia Development Berhad) investment fund and the 12-year prison sentence imposed on him.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:45 am
The president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has been cleared of corruption charges after a review by an independent panel.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:43 am
The first details of the Western Cape government's new central personal protective equipment procurement details emerged during a sitting of the legislature. The ANC accused the DA of portraying the Western Cape as a province left on its own.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:19 am
Until recently, it was one of the brightest, most promising trends in Latin America, and one of the strongest arguments for optimism about its future. But tragically, the fight against corruption, which had made determined strides in its drive to uproot graft, influence peddling and venal misuse of resources, has not only stalled—it has shifted into reverse. The backsliding is now converging with the scourge of the coronavirus, adding to the many challenges that Latin Americans face, and raising the barriers to recovery after the pandemic ends.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:17 am
Some approaches to research ethics would suggest that no participants should get a less-promising intervention tested on them than ones offered in any other arm or trial, or otherwise available. Is this the right path in such a situation? Or how otherwise to handle the situation?
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:14 am
LONDON, July 27, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- EY today releases findings from a global survey finding significant differences in how the public and private sectors view the future of ethics, governance, privacy, policy and regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. According to the Bridging AI's trust gaps report, developed in collaboration with The Future Society, AI discrepancies exist in four key areas: fairness and avoiding bias, innovation, data access and privacy and data rights.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:13 am
The escalating scandal over a multi-million-dollar program granted to WE Charity Canada has hurt Trudeau in the polls, with his Liberal Party slipping to a 4-point lead over the opposition Conservatives, an Abacus Data poll showed Thursday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:12 am
MANILA, Philippines — Upholding human rights and good governance will be critical for Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations said yesterday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 08:10 am
In what The Guardian newspaper called “his most stinging speeches to date”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the global crisis of inequality as “a growing threat to our future” that should be addressed with a “New Global Deal” before it “destroys our economies and societies”.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 06:22 am
Today, Danny Nelson at Coindesk reports that LocalBitcoins a Finland-based P2P crypto exchange, is investing in better Know Your Customer and anti-money laundering provisions.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 06:21 am
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and its investigative partners have laid more charges and charged additional persons after warrants were executed at a number of Ontario locations.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 06:19 am
Rwanda recently amended anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing law and regulations leading to questions on the necessity of the move. Was it out of a rise in cases and incidences? Was it to improve attractiveness to investment?
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 06:18 am
Kuwait yesterday ordered an immediate travel ban against 14 public figures over “money laundering” charges.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 06:17 am
The timing of the announcement of the blacklisting of Jamaica and other African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states was unfortunate, Malgorzata Wasilewska, the outgoing European Union (EU) ambassador, has said.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 06:16 am
There is no doubt that digital currencies provide benefits for an individual, a company and an institution by facilitating better access to financial products and services.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:41 am
Working from home is not a new concept. Many employees have been working remotely for the past few years, and the vast majority have managed to do so without falling victim to a craftily-worded phishing attempt or downloading credential-stealing malware onto our devices.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:38 am
NUI GALWAY HAS confirmed it was one of more than 20 institutions across the world affected by hackers attacking a cloud provider.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:37 am
It’s rare these days for a week to go by without hearing about another big ransomware event that has either disabled a company or cost an organization millions
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:36 am
The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:34 am
People are increasingly shopping, banking and entertaining online, which requires them to share their personal information – phone numbers, addresses, credit card details, and so forth. This makes both people and businesses vulnerable to cyberattacks. In times to come, managing privacy and securing data will be the new normal while paying electricity bills, taxes, etc.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:33 am
The annual Hajj pilgrimage performed by Muslims from around the world has begun in Saudi Arabia, dramatically scaled back because of coronavirus.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 31, 2020 03:31 am
In this era of rapidly evolving technology, nuclear facilities are exposed to dynamic and evolving spectrum of cyber vulnerabilities.
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Anti-Corruption Daily Newsletter for 07/29/2020
Anti-Corruption Daily Newsletter for 07/29/2020
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Your source for international risk & compliance related news, insights, and best practices.
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The new home of the FCPA Newswire edited by Mike Kenealy
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Anti Corruption Digest is the most comprehensive source for global risk & compliance related news, insights, and best practices.
Readers are welcome to research the Anti Corruption Digest’s curated database of over fifteen thousand risk and compliance related articles, offer comments on any article as well as submit material for publication.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:37 am
Measuring corruption is an imperfect science. By its very nature, corruption is out of sight; politicians who steal and otherwise misbehave go to great lengths – including legal maneuvers – to hide their activities.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:37 am
Kuala Lumpur: A Malaysian court has sentenced former prime minister Najib Razak to serve up to 12 years in prison after finding him guilty in the first verdict in a series of trials linked to the 1MDB state investment fund.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:37 am
MANAMA — Bahrain’s High Criminal Court on Thursday sentenced three Iran-owned Future Bank officials to five years in jail and fined each with up to 1 million Bahraini dinars ($2.65 million) in two money-laundering cases, Bahrain News Agency reported.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:37 am
Kuwait’s interior ministry has named 10 social media influencers connected to a money laundering investigation into e-commerce site Boutiqaat.com.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:37 am
Westpac says an internal investigation has discovered it may have breached anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism finance laws on up to 450,000 occasions more than it previously thought.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:36 am
Corruption, the abuse of public office for private gain, is about more than wasted money: it erodes the social contract and corrodes the government’s ability to help grow the economy in a way that benefits all citizens. Corruption was a problem before the crisis, but the COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the importance of stronger governance for three reasons.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:35 am
Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Bulgaria in recent weeks. Their compatriots abroad have been assembling outside the country’s embassies. Online, thousands more have signed petitions demanding the resignation of chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev and the government led by the prime minister, Boyko Borisov.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:34 am
By extending the powers of the National Commission for Integrity, Prevention and Fight against Corruption, the Moroccan government is striving to combat corruption in the country.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:26 am
Australia is in recession for the first time in almost 30 years, national debt is in unprecedented territory, and unemployment is expected to explode when the government suspends the JobKeeper and JobSeeker allowances.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:25 am
OTTAWA — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will give much-anticipated testimony this week over his role in awarding a government contract to a charity that paid members of his family large sums of money, the House of Commons said Monday.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:23 am
On 26 June 2020 the Corporate Insolvency and Governance Act 2020 (the Act) came into force, introducing a number of permanent reforms to English insolvency and restructuring law. Among these reforms is a standalone moratorium available to any eligible company that is, or is likely to become, unable to pay its debts.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:21 am
The Brazilian Amazon is hemorrhaging illegally traded wildlife according to a new report released Monday. Each year, thousands of silver-voiced saffron finches and other songbirds, along with rare macaws and parrots, are captured, trafficked and sold as pets. Some are auctioned as future contestants in songbird contests. Others are exported around the globe.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:20 am
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian-made Remdesivir, an antiviral medication for the treatment of coronavirus patients, will be put on the market within the next few days, an official said.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:19 am
The President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has approved the new structure of the UAE government.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:18 am
Whistleblowers in January accused Adesina, who has held the AfDB’s top job since 2015, of abuses of office including favouritism in hiring fellow Nigerians, and giving out overly generous severance packages. He had denied the accusations.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:12 am
SINGAPORE (THE BUSINESS TIMES) - The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) on Tuesday (July 28) revoked the capital markets services licence of Apical Asset Management for breaching the authority's anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) requirements.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:10 am
fter an almost decade-long trial, a court in Belgrade will deliver its verdict on Friday in the case against drug trafficker Darko Saric on charges that he and 18 others laundered some 22 million euros in earnings from cocaine smuggling via the purchase of companies, land and real estate in Serbia.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:05 am
Controversial German payments processor Wirecard — the issuer of several crypto debit cards — has been implicated in a new report on alleged criminal activities by a Mastercard executive operating at the troubled FBME bank in Cyprus.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:03 am
Six people were prosecuted on Tuesday by the Shanghai No. 1 People’s Procuratorate on charges of money laundering involving over 100 million yuan (US$14.26 million) in total.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:02 am
Pretoria - Self-proclaimed Shepherd prophet Bushiri and his wife Mary appeared in the Pretoria High Court on Monday, on charges including money laundering, fraud and contravention of the Prevention of Organised Crime Act.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 05:00 am
The European Court of Justice announced on Thursday that Romania and Ireland will have to pay three million euro (US$3.43 million) and two million euro ($2.29 million) respectively for having failed to follow an EU directive intended to prevent illicit financial flows that lead to money laundering and terrorist financing.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:59 am
“With AML experts and counter-terrorism watchdogs warning of an increased risk of money-laundering in the current [COVID-19] crisis, firms need to be more vigilant than ever,” the company said in a press release announcing the launch.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:57 am
MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican court held the first hearing Tuesday in what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said would be a “watershed” corruption case against the former head of the state-owned oil company.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:56 am
Abu Dhabi: Twenty-five Saudi influencers are on the radars of state security intelligence in connection with a Kuwaiti money laundering scandal, Saudi media reported.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:37 am
With employees working from home and many organisations switching to permanent remote working, there’s an increased need for companies to keep their staff secure from cyber attacks in this new environment, writes Steven Goff, CyberSecurity Specialist at Maintel.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:35 am
Garmin has finally admitted that its recent outage was caused by a cyber-attack.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:34 am
Recently, hackers took over several high-profile Twitter accounts. Tweets coming from high-profile people like Elon Musk, Kanye West and Barack Obama promised followers they would double their money if they sent Bitcoin within 30 minutes, all in the name of giving back to their community. Sounds like a good deal, right?
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:32 am
The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:31 am
The following morning, at about 6:15 a.m., the attacker returned with another open-source vulnerability scanner – WPScan, free tool bloggers use to test for security vulnerabilities on their sites.
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By Anti-Corruption Digest on Jul 29, 2020 04:30 am
Three men who were allegedly planning to hack the Sassa system and steal money intended for social grants have been arrested, the Hawks said on Monday.
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