Corruption
11 stories, 93 sources cited
Grain trader Scoular pays $10.2m over bribes at the Mexican border, some reaching a cartel
The Scoular Company will pay a criminal penalty of $9,769,521 and forfeit $414,351 under a three year deferred prosecution agreement announced on 17 J
Sources cited: 10 sources
ICAC finds NSW schools building chief corrupt after $344m went to contract workers
The NSW corruption commission's Operation Landan report, made public on 22 April 2026, finds three people engaged in corrupt conduct at School Infrast
Sources cited: 8 sources
A $5 million airport tender was offered for a 5 per cent kickback, and no Commonwealth offence fitted
The National Anti-Corruption Commission published its Operation Pelican report on 8 April 2026: a $5 million airport car park tender, a kickback of 5
Sources cited: 9 sources
Nigeria's former attorney general lost 48 properties to an order needing no conviction
On 15 July 2026 the Federal High Court in Abuja forfeited 48 properties to the state under a 2006 statute that forbids basing the order on a convictio
Sources cited: 9 sources
Paris appeal court convicts 12 over National Rally staffing and cuts Le Pen's ban to 45 months
On 7 July 2026 the Paris Court of Appeal convicted all 12 appellants in the Front National assistants case, put the loss to the European Parliament at
Sources cited: 7 sources
Peru's Constitutional Court voided Ollanta Humala's 15 year conviction on a question of dates
Sentencia 169/2026, dated 15 July and published on 30 July, annulled the whole money laundering case against Peru's former president. The vote was fiv
Sources cited: 8 sources
FinCEN fines UBS Financial Services $125m for repeating the failure it was fined for in 2018
On 3 August 2026 the US Treasury's financial crimes unit assessed a $125,000,000 penalty against UBS Financial Services, the largest ever against a br
Sources cited: 8 sources
Australia scored 76 on an index that counts perceptions of corruption, not corruption
Transparency International published its 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index on 10 February 2026. Australia fell one point to 76 out of 100 and from equ
Sources cited: 10 sources
Treasury's whistleblower review closes as ASIC finds only 39 per cent of disclosures qualified
The statutory review of Australia's tax and corporate whistleblowing laws, required by section 1317AK of the Corporations Act 2001, closed to submissi
Sources cited: 9 sources
Federal Court leaves intact a corruption finding built on leaked papers, not money
The ACT Integrity Commission found on 18 March 2025 that a former appeal judge engaged in serious corrupt conduct by leaking his own inquiry's confide
Sources cited: 9 sources
A Brooklyn jury convicted a former Goldman Sachs banker of paying more than a million dollars to Ghanaian officials for a power plant deal
Asante Kwako Berko, 52, was found guilty on 6 August 2026 of conspiring to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, violating it, and money launderi
Sources cited: 6 sources