Bribery and Corruption

Most residents don’t have money for repairs, making them vulnerable to corruption schemes.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/08/24/how-beirut-blast-enrich-lebanese-elites/

The former chief executives of Finablr and NMC Health are among a group of 17 people who are claimed to have embezzled millions of UAE dirhams from the firms, the Sunday Telegraph reported today.

You have to hand it to Sajid Javid. Six months ago, the MP for Bromsgrove was on his uppers, having stormed out of Number 11 Downing St after refusing Dominic Cummings’s diktat to sack his advisers.

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/21/reek-corruption-british-politics-discontent-democracy?CMP=share_btn_tw

With a one trillion dollars in available lending capacity since the outbreak of COVID-19, the IMF has played a leading role in mitigating the economic impacts of the pandemic. To date, the Fund has made available, through its various lending facilities and debt service relief initiatives, more than US$83 billion to more than 80 countries.

The EU has threatened to impose sanctions on Belarus, after its President Alexander Lukashenko was accused of election rigging.

Joshua Brien, 47, from Notting Hill, London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of a string of charges between December 2014 and October 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8595035/Notting-Hill-husband-wife-charged-corruption-plot-working-Commonwealth-HQ.html

Ziad Akle has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for paying over $500,000 in bribes to secure a $55m contract to supply offshore mooring buoys.

A lawyer at one of the UK’s most prestigious law firms has been accused of relaying an offer of a £1m “bribe” to police officers as part of a bizarre plot to release €300m (£274m) hidden in a Swiss bank account, according to court transcripts obtained by the Guardian.

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said yesterday it would launch a review after its head was rebuked by a London judge for being vulnerable to flattery from a freelance agent during a high-profile bribery investigation into oil consultancy Unaoil.

https://www.cityam.com/uk-fraud-office-launches-review-after-director-implicated-in-unaoil-scandal/

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Monday it would launch a review after its head was rebuked by a London judge for being vulnerable to flattery from a freelance agent during a high-profile bribery investigation into oil consultancy Unaoil.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-fraud-office-launches-review-202815387.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw