Government officials digging their hand into the till to directly pull out public funds remains the top form of corruption, the Inspectorate of government has said in a new report. At 19.4 percent of complaints recorded at the IGG, mismanagement and misappropriation of public resources is the most reported form of corruption.
They said Ali Qudah, a former finance minister along with business tycoon Khaled Shaheen, Mohammad Rawashdeh, a senior adviser to the prime minister and Ahmad Rifai, former head of Jordan's state-managed oil refinery were all given three-year sentences after being found guilty on charges of bribery.
Nato commanders are preparing to concentrate their forces around Kandahar, the Taliban's heartland in Afghanistan, but the main aim of this summer's Operation Omid, billed as the biggest offensive so far, is to solve the area's political and social problems, say senior alliance officials.
Should police Sgt. James Crowley have arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. on July 16, after Crowley responded to a 911 report of a possible break-in at Gates' Cambridge, Mass., house? And to what degree was the arrest related to the fact that Gates is black and Crowley is white?
Minister of Petroleum, Dr Rilwanu Lukman, has assured that by seeking to remove confidentiality from all procedures, contracts and payments, the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB), when passed into law, will end corruption in the oil industry.
COMMISSIONER of Customs Danville Walker says new measures implemented at the island's ports have significantly reduced corruption, cutting back on the $13-billion in duties believed to have been lost to under-invoicing last year.
ANKARA - For the last five years, the ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has been stalling an independent board’s effort to fight corruption, which is one of the primary demands of the European Union.
Boyko Borisov, a former bodyguard, is the frontrunner in Bulgaria's national elections on Sunday. He insists that his goal is to finally clean up corruption in the European Union's poorest member state.
When British journalist Michela Wrong published her book about the crushing effects of Kenyan corruption a few months back, she knew her material would be explosive.
A Chinese website set up so people can inform on corrupt officials has been inundated with so many visitors that it crashed shortly after launching.