Corruption
The Petrobras scandal explained
| Financial Times | State-controlled oil producer Petrobras is at the centre of the biggest corruption scandal in Brazilian history. FT Brazil correspondent Samantha Pearson explains how it started, who is involved and what it means for the country.
- 2015
- Corruption
Malawi loses millions to corruption
| Financial times | Africa editor Javier Blas speaks to Joyce Banda, president of Malawi, about a corruption scandal involving the loss of millions of dollars of public funds, and the economic impact of suspended aid payments on one of…
- 2015
- Corruption
Temer indicted for corruption
| Financial Times | Brazil’s president Michel Temer has been indicted for corruption, marking the first time since the return of democracy in the 1980s that a leader of Latin America’s largest country has faced criminal charges.
- 2017
- Corruption
Time to consider investing in corruption?
| Financial Times | Corruption pays, London Business School data indicates, at least if you invested in countries with poor transparency since 2000. Lex’s Oliver Ralph and Robert Armstrong ask if it is time to consider corruption as an asset…
- 2015
- Corruption
FIFA Raid Revives Corruption Allegations
| Financial Times |Fifa corruption allegations have been highlighted again by the arrests of top officials as part of a probe into more than $150m in bribes and kickbacks. Gideon Rachman and Hugh Carnegy discuss what it means for Fifa…
- 2017
- Bribery, Corruption
Latvia – where corruption never seems to have left
| Financial Times | The scandals shaking Latvia’s banking system are the latest in a series of crises over more than a decade in a country that has styled itself as a financial “bridge” between Europe’s east and west.
1MDB scandal: the Malaysian fraud explained
| Financial Times | The FT’s Stefania Palma explains the corruption and money-laundering inquiry at the state development and investment fund in which charges have been filed against two former Goldman Sachs bankers, local financier Jho Low and ex-1MDB employee…
- 2018
- Corruption, Money Laundering
Analyze This! Corruption
| IMF | Corruption can have devastating social and economic consequences.
- 2017
- Corruption
Theft And Corruption Among Indonesia’s Elite
| Journeyman Pictures | Catwalk (2011): With 60,000 millionaires the cash is splashing around in Indonesia. Yet recently their playground has been invaded by two major scandals that reveal the full extent of the country’s corruption. Malinda Dee’s smile is…
- 2016
- Corruption
Russia’s Madagascar Election Gamble
| BBC | A BBC Africa Eye investigation has revealed that at least six candidates were offered money by Russians in the lead up to last year’s presidential elections in Madagascar. The presence of Russian political strategists with close ties…
- 2019
- Corruption, Bribery