(Bloomberg) — The head of Ukraine’s anti-graft agency was summoned to parliament but failed to show after lawmakers sought to question him about potential leaks of confidential information to people under investigation. Most Read from Bloomberg Semen Kryvonos, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau’s head, didn’t meet Thursday with members of a committee, saying before he was […]
(Bloomberg) — Vietnam nominated the enforcer of Communist Party’s anti-corruption drive as the next president and proposed a new head of parliament, in appointments that could ease months of political turmoil and allow policymakers to refocus on a struggling economy. Most Read from Bloomberg The Party Central Committee proposed Minister of Public Security To Lam […]
Posts that surfaced after China’s “Two Sessions” political meeting in March 2024 misrepresented an old video they falsely claimed showed officials reacting to anti-graft arrests supposedly broadcast live on television. Chinese President Xi Jinping has waged a sweeping campaign against deep-seated corruption since coming to power but there were no official reports about the purported event […]
Oleksandr Novikov, former head of Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP), on public officials’ asset declarations, corruption around military recruitment, and international sponsors of the war in Ukraine. NV Radio interviewed Novikov on Jan. 15. NV: Your four-year term of office as the NACP head expires on Jan. 15. Does that make you sad? […]
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemala’s new leftist president, Bernardo Arevalo, took office on Monday after a tortuous delay that underlined the uphill struggle he faces to meet high expectations and enact a sweeping anti-graft agenda in opposition-controlled Congress. Arevalo, the Central American country’s most liberal leader in years, powered to victory in August, […]