TEHRAN, May 05 - Panamanians will choose Sunday between six mostly business-friendly candidates to lead this Central American trade and financial hub for the next five years in a presidential election focusing on corruption and slowing economic growth.
TEHRAN, Apr 23 - Investigating judges have ordered that former Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his wife stand trial on corruption charges, a judicial official said on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, Apr 18 - An investigation into corruption allegations against a junior minister from the far-right League prompted fresh conflict on Thursday within Italy's already troubled government.
TEHRAN, Mar 17 - As the Hungarian prime minister's conflicts with the European Union appear headed to a breaking point, calls are increasing for greater scrutiny of his government's spending of the bloc's funds.
TEHRAN, Mar 17 - China’s anti- corruption watchdog said on Saturday it would prosecute Nur Bekri, one of the highest-ranking ethnic Uighur officials in the country, over allegations of graft during to his time as governor of Xinjian.
TEHRAN, Mar 08 - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi is being investigated for alleged corruption in a case revolving round a stake his holding company Fininvest has in the asset manager Banca Mediolanum, a judicial source said on Friday.
TEHRAN, Feb 28 -Israel’s attorney general says he intends to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in three separate corruption investigations.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - The European Union is appealing to Romania to not to dilute efforts to fight high-level corruption after the government enacted a measure that critics say will exert more political control over the judiciary.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - Pakistan's anti- corruption body says it has arrested the speaker of a provincial assembly and member of an opposition party headed by former President Asif Ali Zardari.
TEHRAN, Feb 20 - A former top Chinese general has been given a life sentence for taking and distributing bribes and possessing a large amount of property whose origins he could not account for.
TEHRAN, Jan 29 - The United States is becoming more corrupt under President Donald Trump as America’s system of checks and balances and its ethical norms faces growing threats by the White House, according to a global corruption watchdog.
TEHRAN, Jan 18 - Indonesian President Joko Widodo accused his election rival of allowing corrupt candidates on his legislative ticket and failing to include women in senior positions.
TEHRAN, Jan 1 - Peru's attorney general late Monday dismissed a team investigating the far-reaching Odebrecht corruption scandal, setting off street protests in cities across the country.
TEHRAN, December 31 - Iran's Intelligence Ministry announced in a statement on Monday that it recognized and destroyed an economic corruption band, arresting 11 main members of the network.
TEHRAN, December 27 - Tens of thousands of Mongolians took to the streets on Thursday to protest against corruption in the top echelons of politics, braving temperatures that dropped below minus 20 degrees Celsius in the capital, Ulaanbaatar.
TEHRAN, December 24 - An anti-graft tribunal sentenced former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to seven years in prison for corruption on Monday, drawing criticism from his party, which said the decision was a "black spot" on the justice system.
TEHRAN, December 19 - Latvia violated European Union law by barring from office its central bank governor, who is also a European Central Bank policymaker, the advocate general of the European Court of Justice argued on Wednesday.
TEHRAN, December 12 -Prosecutors in Malaysia have filed a new corruption charge against former prime minister Najib Razak, adding to an already long list of corruption allegations against him since he lost power in elections earlier this year.
TEHRAN, December 12 -Malaysian prosecutors on Wednesday filed new graft charges against former prime minister Najib Razak and the former chief executive of scandal-linked state fund 1MDB, in the latest cases over alleged theft of billions of dollars from the fund.
TEHRAN, December 09 - Iranian special courts for economic crimes have handed down prison sentences against 10 more men, including an Afghan national, for disrupting Iran’s economic system.