(Guardian, London, 20 March 2015) The UK government provided hundreds of millions of pounds worth of support for a controversial energy project in Brazil that is now at the centre of a sprawling corruption scandal engulfing the country’s political and business elite. Hundreds of contracts for...
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(Morning Star, London, 20 February 2015) Recently released HSBC files reveal that the bank's Swiss branch held accounts for Jeffrey Tesler, a London lawyer...
more(Both Ends, Amsterdam, 24 December 2014)
by: Wiert Wiertsema, Both ENDS
The Brazilian oil company Petrobras is currently involved in a corruption scandal that affects all companies it has been working with. The Dutch enterprise SBM Offshore paid bribes to Petrobras, and recently...
(AnandTech, Seoul, 6 November 2014) Zalman, a pioneer of low-noise cooling solutions, filed for bankruptcy in Seoul on 3 November 2014. Zalman was acquired in 2011 by robotics manufacturer Moneual, which received about 620 million dollars in loans from several Korean banks and another 275...
more(Reuters, Berlin, 23 October 2014) Big exporting nations are breaking their pledge to fight corruption in global trade, with more than half of the countries that have signed an OECD anti-bribery convention failing to implement it,...
more(Wall Street Journal, Washington, 23 June 2014) The U.S. Export-Import Bank has suspended or removed four officials in recent months amid investigations into allegations of gifts and kickbacks, as well as attempts to steer federal contracts to favored companies.
(US Dept. of Justice, Washington, 34 <july 2014) The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that an $80 million False Claims Act judgment was entered against BNP Paribas for submitting false claims for export payment guarantees issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. BNP Paribas...
more(Hindu Business Line, Chennai, 5 March 2014) India's state-controlled Export Credit Guarantee Corporation that covers exporters against credit risk is closely looking at the turmoil in Ukraine to determine whether the situation calls for a risk upgrade, Though, theoretically, India stands to...
more(European Parliament, Strasbourg, 8 October 2013) The European Parliament has approved a resolution on corruption and human rights in the public and private sectors which includes a clause calling on bilateral and multilateral financial institutions, including the World Bank Group, IMF,...
more(Jubilee Australia, Sydney, 15 October 2013) In the past two weeks corporate Australia has been rocked by reports of bribes being paid by one of the country’s largest companies, Leighton Holdings. These bribes were supported by Australian taxpayers’ money, handed out by a little-known and...
more(PRN Newswire, 12 September 2013, Washington) The Office of Inspector General (OIG) for the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) announced today that Teolinda Briseyda Angeles, an owner of an electronics company in Miami, Florida, was sentenced to serve one year and one day in...
more(ECA Watch, Ottawa, 31 August 2013) The latest available OECD ECA bribery survey responses on how member ECAs implement the 2006 OECD Recommendation on Bribery and ECAs is available on their web site. However,...
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ARCHIVE ONLY - NOT MAINTAINED Nigeria's Bonny Island LNG Project Corruption Case Summary
Brown & Root (KBR), the British subsidiary of Halliburton, has been accused of offering a USD $180M bribe to Nigerian officials to secure a contract for the...
moreUnearthing the shadowy world of Export Credit Agencies. This report examines some of the problems with...