Should the U.S. create a sovereign wealth fund in line with President Donald Trump's executive order this week, it would be an unusual one among those already established by other countries.

Three celebrities will provide statements to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) on Thursday (Feb 6) to assist in ...

Senior officials in Washington met with Manhattan prosecutors and defense lawyers representing Mayor Eric Adams to discuss dropping the corruption case against him.

One year ago, anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arévalo was sworn in as president of Guatemala. Elected on a promise to revive Guatemala’s perpetual battle with graft, Arévalo has spent his first year ...

Corruption is endemic in Nigeria. It drains billions of dollars a year from Africa’s largest economy and most populous country. Systemic corruption also undermines Nigeria’s ability to combat ...

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Pakistan's former prime minister Imran Khan has been given a 14-year jail sentence in a land corruption case, officials and his lawyer have said. The verdict in the case followed allegations of ...

and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in a case related to the misuse of authority and corruption involving Khan’s Al-Qadir University Project Trust. Khan was also given a fine of 1 million ...

Two months after she was recalled as Oakland mayor, Sheng Thao has reportedly been criminally indicted by a federal grand jury — a blockbuster blow to the struggling Bay Area city already ...

Yoon was sent to a detention center near the country’s capital, Seoul, after undergoing more than 10 hours of questioning on Wednesday at the headquarters of the Corruption Investigation Office ...

In a video message recorded before he was escorted to the headquarters of the anti-corruption agency, Yoon lamented the "rule of law has completely collapsed in this country." Yoon, the country's ...

"I decided to respond to the CIO's investigation — despite it being an illegal investigation — to prevent unsavoury bloodshed," Yoon said in a statement, referring to the Corruption ...