Corruption
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Americas
Construction firm Queiroz Galvao caught up in Petrobras corruption probe
Another big construction company in Brazil has become ensnared in the Petrobras corruption scandal, as federal police have raided properties…
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Asia
Former Korea Development Bank chairman linked to DSME fraud scandal
The multi-billion dollar accounting fraud scandal that has rocked Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering stepped up a gear today with…
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Asia
Petrofac not implicated in Unaoil corruption scandal, investigators confirm
An independent investigation has confirmed that no bribes were ever paid by Petrofac to Unaoil, the Monaco-based oil trader raided…
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Americas
Former Brazil president petitions UN over Petrobras corruption probe
Brazil’s former national president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (widely known as Lula) has petitioned the United Nations alleging his…
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Americas
Court papers allege Singapore firms paid over $9.5m in bribes for Petrobras contracts
Prominent Singapore companies Keppel and Sembcorp Marine are accused in US court documents of paying specific amounts in the Petrobras…
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Americas
Brazilian subsidiary of US Steel raided in latest twist of Petrobras graft scandal
A Brazilian company part-owned by US Steel has been raided by the country’s federal authorities in the latest development of…
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Americas
Former presidential chief of staff Dirceu gets 23 years for role in Petrobras bribe scandal
The former chief of staff to Brazil’s ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (known as Lula) was sentenced on Wednesday…
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Americas
US to intensify probe of Petrobras-related graft accusations
The US Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are intensifying their probe of dozens of…
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Americas
Brazil recovers $54m from agent involved in corrupt payments between SBM Offshore and Petrobras
Brazil’s attorney general’s office announced it has managed to recover $54m that had been diverted from Petrobras in corrupt dealings…
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Americas
Former president of Guatemala accused of taking bribes for container terminal contract
A former President of Guatemala, already in jail, has been accused of taking bribes to favour a Spanish bidder for…
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Europe
Unaoil raided on corruption charges in Monaco, multinationals implicated
Oil company Unaoil and the homes of its bosses have been raided by authorities in Monaco as part of a…
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Americas
Swiss to provide US investigators with bank info on Venezuela’s PDVSA
US investigators have received a boost in their investigation of corruption at Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela…
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Middle East
Former Ashdod port workers indicted
The Israeli government yesterday filed indictments against Alon Hassan, a former Ashdod port union boss, and five others. The indictment…
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Americas
Corruption at Odebrecht was systematic according to Brazilian prosecutor
Brazilian prosecutors on Tuesday revealed that engineering giant Odebrecht had a highly organized, even automated, system for making bribe payments…
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Asia
Kolkata port execs arrested on corruption charges
Police swooped late last night to arrest two Indian port officials on charges of corruption. Kolkata Port Trust (KoPT) chairman…
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Americas
Former head of Odebrecht gets 19 years in Petrobras case
The former head of Brazilian engineering and construction giant Odebrecht was jailed on Tuesday for 19 years and four months…
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Americas
Lula vows to fight Petrobras-linked bribe allegations
Former president of Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, on Friday pledged to fight allegations that he received bribes from…
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Americas
Former Brazil president Lula arrested in Petrobras-related probe
Brazilian police in the early hours of Friday morning raided the home of former national president Luiz Inazio Lula da…
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Americas
Petrobras scandal probe nears Brazil’s former national president Lula
The Petrobras bribes-for-inflated contracts corruption scandal on Monday claimed another prominent head and came closer to embroiling one of the…
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Americas
Swiss arrest Odebrecht executive in connection to Petrobras scandal
Swiss authorities have arrested an executive of Brazilian engineering giant Odebrecht as part of the ongoing bribes-for-inflated-contracts corruption scandal surrounding…
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