" WikiLeaks continued: "The discussion can be transformative as it exposes media corruption, primary corruption, PAC corruption, etc.
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But her call to fight "corruption, corruption, corruption" echoes views other, more mainstream, Democrats have previously expressed. Sen.
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On IAAF corruption * The corruption was "embedded" in the IAAF.
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The Trump presidency is a corruption that flows from corruption.
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But I do care about corruption, and this whole thing is about corruption ... This is about corruption, and this is not about politics.
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But I do care about corruption, and this whole thing is about corruption... This is about corruption, and this is not about politics.
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"Corruption has put our planet at risk, corruption has broken our economy and corruption is breaking our democracy," Ms. Warren said Monday evening.
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Anti-corruption campaigners consider it an exemplary bulwark against official corruption.
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She is strong on corruption - corruption is what she's best at!
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" Q: It's an anti-corruption investigation - "That's the big title: anti-corruption.
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Those of us who have worked our share of public corruption investigations know the appearance of corruption can be just as damaging as actual corruption.
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Kickbacks and corruption Corruption watchdogs blame so-called "tenderpreneurs" -- individual councilors who get kickbacks for awarding dodgy government contracts -- for fueling corruption at the local level.
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First of all, yes, corruption — including corruption of alleged experts — really does happen.
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Related: Can a President Accused of Corruption Convincingly Push an Anti-Corruption Law?
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The Corruption Perceptions Index is based on expert opinions of public sector corruption.
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Without robust law enforcement and independent judiciaries, corruption exposed will remain corruption unpunished.
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Set up an anti-corruption commission and investigate and prosecute corruption cases. 9.
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"Odebrecht gave corruption fantastic visibility, it's the pornography of corruption," Mr. Zovatto said.
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Officially, the fascist politician's denunciations of corruption sound like a denunciation of political corruption.
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"DJI condemns any form of corruption strongly and has set up a high-level anti-corruption task force to investigate further and strengthen anti-corruption measures," it said.
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It's difficult to fix corruption in government when that very corruption undermines efforts at reform.
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A newly independent state struggling to fight corruption, now they're caught up in American corruption.
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The group also ranks corruption across the globe through their interactive annual Corruption Perceptions Index.
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"Corruption is the symptom, not the disease," J.L.S. Girling writes in Corruption, Capitalism, and Democracy.
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America had tried to fight corruption in Ukraine, and corruption in Ukraine was fighting back.
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Vona accused Fidesz of trying to divert attention from endemic corruption he called "corruption terrorism".
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For the executive branch, the report recommends an interagency task force on corruption, senior anti-corruption officials at relevant agencies and anti-corruption offices at relevant agencies, among 11 recommendations.
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" Conflicts and corruption: In response to a statement that the Obama administration was relatively corruption-free, he responds: "But there's a point where no corruption can be a bad thing.
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"They think that rules should be written, that OK, you're allowed to investigate corruption, you're allowed to withhold the aid for corruption, unless that corruption involves a Democrat," Paul said.
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From the economic standpoint, eliminating opportunities for corruption works well as a tool in corruption control.
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He has pledged to fight corruption and revive the economy following accusations of corruption and mismanagement.
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Corruption scandal The corruption scandal that brought down Park has dominated South Korean politics for months.
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Corruption poses challenges to the legitimacy and stability of government; corruption is also an economic issue.
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In Russia, Vladimir Putin uses anti-corruption campaigns to arrest critics who accuse him of corruption.
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"It is the petty corruption, the day-to-day corruption that infects the country," he said.
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Under an administration rampant with corruption, why not elect someone who pledges to purge that corruption?
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He also said that "foreign aid does not cure corruption," but rather "aids and abets" corruption.
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FRENCH TYCOON BOLLORE BEING INVESTIGATED OVER SUSPECTED CORRUPTION OF FOREIGN OFFICIALS AND COMPLICITY IN CORRUPTION - LAWYER
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Not the venal corruption we are accustomed to thinking about, but what he calls systemic corruption.
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President Donald Trump&aposs impeachment trial centers on the allegation that Trump and others pressured Ukraine to start corruption investigations there that would help his campaign the US.But Daria Kaleniuk, a Ukrainian anti-corruption activists, says corruption the US allows to exist facilitates corruption in her country.
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An anti-corruption watchdog released its latest annual rankings of global corruption Wednesday, with nations such as Somalia, North Korea, Afghanistan and Sudan topping the list as states with the most corruption.
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It included the creation of an independent corruption prosecutor, a special court to oversee corruption issues and a framework for coordinating scores of government offices that are currently charged with fighting corruption.
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Duduzane faces charges of corruption and conspiracy to commit corruption which his lawyers say he will contest.
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With the new zeal for prosecuting corruption in Latin America has come the weaponization of corruption investigations.
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The reformers want a new independent anti-corruption court for the anti-corruption prosecutor, named in 2015.
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Corruption is rife: Transparency International, a Berlin-based watchdog, ranks Iran 136th in its corruption perceptions index.
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Still, he added, "the focus should not just be on past corruption but on preventing future corruption."
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It illustrates the political and monetary corruption of the family courts, corruption that persists to this day.
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"School leaders should be just as concerned about the perception of corruption as actual corruption," he said.
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Thank you for reinvigorating a moribund husk of corruption, corruption that had turned so many people off.
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That corruption, or perceived corruption, played a big role in Donald Trump's successful "drain the swamp" campaign.
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The group's chairman N. Bhaskara Rao describes electoral corruption as "the mother of all corruption" in India.
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"Corruption begets more corruption, and fosters a corrosive culture of impunity," says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
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Corruption in all areas of life is still rife globally but more countries continued to improve their "corruption perception" scores in 20153, according to the latest research from anti-corruption body Transparency International.
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"They're struggling with the very apparatus they created to fight corruption, which risks becoming an apparatus of corruption."
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PM faces corruption cases Far larger corruption cases are still hanging over Sara Netanyahu's husband, the Prime Minister.
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"I don't think Romania has made significant progress against corruption," says Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, a Romanian corruption expert.
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Lagarde's essay, "Addressing Corruption – Openly," will form a chapter of Cameron's anti-corruption book, to be released Wednesday.
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We are not an adequate substitute for special counsel when it comes to DOJ corruption and FBI corruption.
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The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), established by our government to root out corruption, is popular.
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This is corruption in a much narrower sense, and such corruption has nothing to do with political ideology.
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Anti-corruption campaigner Ezekwesili is one of the co-founders of Transparency International, a global watchdog fighting corruption.
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Successive governments have promised to stamp out corruption but no senior official has been imprisoned on corruption charges.
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Bob McDonnell (D) on corruption charges, which changed the definition of an "official action" in government corruption cases.
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And sometimes, the simple suggestion of corruption can be as damaging as real corruption to a candidate's reputation.
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Clinton not just for her email woes but for her past corruption, even for corruption not yet discovered?
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Political corruption and law enforcement corruption is always part and parcel to what makes the world go around.
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Weld vigorously targeted public corruption and white-collar crime, winning convictions in 109 out of 111 corruption cases.
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Transparency International, a corruption watchdog, ranked the country 113 out of 176 countries in its corruption perceptions index.
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Corruption probes His announcements have served a second purpose -- keeping attention away from the corruption investigations he's facing.
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They are scandalized by incongruity, they are scandalized by corruption, and as part of this corruption ... sexual abuse.
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Corruption under Aliyev has flourished: Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index pegged Azerbaijan behind countries like Nigeria and Russia in its most recent index, with Baku receiving the worst anti-corruption score it's ever seen.
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Transparency International ranked Honduras 241 out of 2100 countries in its Corruption Perceptions Index 2000, which looks at public sector corruption, and states that a failure to control corruption contributes to a crisis of democracy.
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Usually, that goes for their claims that they're eradicating corruption, while simultaneously fostering an environment that breeds total corruption.
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I admire the project to address corruption, which is an amazing thing, but how would Saudi society define corruption?
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Corruption has not returned; Georgia rates better than Italy and close to Spain on Transparency International's corruption perceptions index.
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Popular anti-corruption judge, Joaquim Barbosa, who jailed several top PT leaders for corruption, also came out for Haddad.
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History of corruption Long plagued by charges of corruption, the Baltimore Police Department has struggled to win public confidence.
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" Francis throughout the letter called for Catholics to come together forcefully against "all forms of corruption, especially spiritual corruption.
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Just days after the appointment was announced, Indonesia's anti-corruption commission declared that Mr Budi was suspected of corruption.
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And along with it, the idea that those leading the war on corruption are somehow immune from corruption itself.
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Trump corruption watch President Trump's Washington hotel, located blocks from the White House, has become an invitation to corruption.
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When corruption is perceived as universal, those in power can use investigations and allegations of corruption as a weapon.
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Both countries have made important strides against corruption, but once again, corruption was a key factor contributing to violence.
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Data from the Corruption Perceptions Index show that people around the world feel that corruption is on the rise.
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Hundreds of corruption allegations Known as the "Teflon President," Zuma has survived repeated corruption allegations and scandals for years.
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Last week, the Anti-Corruption Agency forwarded the Leshchenko file to the special prosecutor's office tasked with corruption fighting.
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Numerous Western governments — including the US — and anti-corruption groups scorned him for his failure to tackle official corruption.
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She even has an anti-corruption plan she began pushing just as this Ukraine corruption story began to break.
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He refers to Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity (MCCI), a business-backed NGO, as "Mexicans in favour of corruption".
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Curbing corruption Russia was ranked 135th in the 2017 Corruption Perceptions Index, four positions lower than the year before.
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During his tenure, Shokin's office was criticized by diplomats and anti-corruption activists as an obstacle to fighting corruption.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place," Trump said Sunday.
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Absent any serious effort to redress corruption and perhaps even reclaim monies, such loan forgiveness only ensures more corruption.
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The country is crippled by corruption — Sudan ranks 175 out of 180 countries on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
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An anti-corruption watchdog, Indonesia Corruption Watch, accused lawmakers of trying to protect themselves after the commission named 23 sitting members of Parliament as corruption suspects, including the former House speaker and leaders of political parties.
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It is seen as tarnished by corruption, even as it simultaneously rolls back successful anti-corruption initiatives in the judiciary.
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In 1996 the word "corruption" appeared in 27 Mexican headlines, according to Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, a think-tank.
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"It's not enough to set up a new anti-corruption bureau and establish a special prosecutor fighting corruption," Biden said.
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Government anti-money laundering and anti-corruption officials, newly appointed by Macri, are pushing to investigate corruption under Fernandez's administration.
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Kenyatta complained in a meeting about corruption this week that the slow pace of hearings hindered his anti-corruption drive.
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Fernandez, the subject of corruption investigations herself, has acknowledged there was likely corruption during her government but denies personal involvement.
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One agency targeted for a direct hit to their coffers: Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Kyiv's foremost anti-corruption body.
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Among the billionaire Guo's allegations is that Wang Qishan, leader of Beijing's anti-corruption efforts, is himself tainted by corruption.
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This year, I turned to it to understand two themes: Moral corruption and political corruption; moral depravity and political depravity.
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A popular anti-corruption judge, Joaquim Barbosa, who jailed several top PT leaders for corruption, also came out for Haddad.
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" Corruption convictions or cases involving alleged corruption in Baltimore have tended to involve sums of money much smaller than "billions.
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Lebanon ranks 138th out of 180 nations in the Corruption Perceptions Index released by the anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International.
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Police whistleblowers, like the ones who came forward to address corruption in McDonald's investigation and Baltimore's corruption cases, are rare.
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"The ambassador's view of Ukrainian corruption and Rudy Giuliani's view of corruption are at odds with one another," Meadows acknowledged.
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Beyond Leshchenko's anti-corruption work, a Democratic National Committee contract employee was alarmed by rampant corruption in her ancestral homeland.
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They said the public corruption in Texas border cities was no different from the public corruption elsewhere around the country.
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The expulsion of the anti-corruption commission from the Central American nation will clear the way for corruption and impunity.
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There is a National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) empowered to investigate high-level graft, a new anti-corruption prosecution service and a National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption to monitor the income declarations of government officials.
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The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption -- all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son (adding to the corruption).
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On the week of more corruption allegations from a second Panama Papers leak, and on the eve of U.K. Prime Minister 's Anti-Corruption Summit in , the International Monetary Fund's managing director has penned an essay addressing corruption.
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"2016 is the year of eliminating corruption, there is no such things as acceptable corruption and non-acceptable corruption," Abadi said in a speech at a ceremony to celebrate the anniversary of the Iraqi police force in Baghdad.
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PM faces corruption cases The guilty plea comes with far larger corruption cases still hanging over her husband, the prime minister.
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"The 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index clearly shows that corruption remains a blight around the world," said Transparency International head Jose Ugaz.
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Well there is a few major problems with the Democrats adopting anti-corruption platform because they are the party of corruption.
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So we would very much like to see more fight against corruption and the cleaning up the Russian economy from corruption.
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Sharif faces three separate corruption charges from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), an anti-corruption body which has its own courts.
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In response, tennis introduced a new anti-corruption code in 2009 but were told previous corruption offences could not be pursued.
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The Court justified its ruling with a claim that these expenditures would not lead to corruption or the appearance of corruption.
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Brazil should be awarded a gold medal not for corruption, but, on the contrary, for courage in the fight against corruption.
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In the past few years, a sprawling corruption investigation has revealed epic levels of corruption at the highest levels of government.
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Mr. Sopko asserted that corruption among American contractors has undercut efforts to fight the serious corruption problems in the country already.
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The series, in a word, is about how the corruption of ordinary citizens translates into the corruption of the political class.
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Bob McDonnell's corruption convictions Monday, finding in a unanimous decision that corruption statutes should be more limited than federal prosecutors argued.
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Adnan Topan Husodo, the coordinator of Indonesia Corruption Watch, accused Widodo of backtracking on pledges to support the fight against corruption.
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If the president's worries about Ukrainian corruption were genuine, why didn't he order American diplomats to pursue his anti-corruption crusade?
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Real corruption in Ukraine That gets us to the issue of real corruption in Ukraine -- and the "two truths" mentioned earlier.
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It creates eras in which corruption flourishes, so long as that corruption is to the benefit of the party in power.
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Blagojevich, a Democrat, was impeached and removed from office in 2009 for corruption, and was later indicted on multiple corruption charges.
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Forty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that the appearance of corruption was "of almost equal concern" as actual corruption.
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Mr. Bolsonaro, who has vowed to clean up entrenched political corruption, is now fending off corruption allegations against his own administration.
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"Every time you fight corruption the way we are trying to fight corruption, there is a major fight back, because corruption in this country is wealthy, powerful, influential and it is in every aspect of our lives," Osinbajo said.
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And to ensure its National Anti-Corruption Bureau, National Anti-Corruption Policy Council and National Agency for Prevention of Corruption serve the public interest, the country has conducted an open hiring process meant to give priority to true reformers.
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A lot of people also talk about this current anti-corruption campaign that's going in China as not necessary just about corruption.
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Americans have a right to a president who not only avoids corruption by personal conflict of interest but the appearance of corruption.
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The woman who wrote two books on corruption in the judiciary, the woman who wrote a book on corruption in the military.
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Many economists believe that corruption was, counter-intuitively, a lubricant for growth Many economists also believe that corruption was, counterintuitively, a lubricant.
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Brazilians' anger about corruption and economic recession led to the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff in 19903 (for budgetaccounting violations, not corruption).
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The demonstration was by far the largest of weekly anti-corruption protests sparked by corruption allegations against Netanyahu, who denies any wrongdoing.
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Officials with the Ukrainian National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which is investigating corruption under Yanukovych, have said they believe the ledger is genuine.
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Anti-corruption prosecutors have sent hundreds of lawmakers, ministers, mayors and other public officials across all parties to trial on corruption charges.
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The Progressive Era may have dramatically decreased corruption, but it did not totally eradicate corruption, which means it was a total failure.
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Last year, its report uncovered systemic corruption in Russian track and field and pointed to many strands of corruption in winter sports.
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Mexico enacted laws that establish a long-awaited national "anti-corruption system", which creates independent authorities to monitor, investigate and punish corruption.
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Despite pledges by successive governments to stamp out corruption, it has not yet put a senior official behind bars on corruption charges.
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Corruption remains a major problem -- the country ranks 2.23 out of 176 countries in the 2016 corruption perception index by Transparency International.
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Most importantly, the accusers have not shown any connection to the big "Lava Jato" (car wash) corruption scandal — or any other corruption.
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But Wickremesinghe's own government has faced corruption allegations over a bond scam and it has failed to deliver the corruption crackdown promised.
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Latin America's star faces corruption scandal Peru's corruption crisis could mark a turn of fortunes for one of the region's star economies.
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The larger threat, however, is what economist John Joseph Wallis calls "systematic corruption," the kind of corruption 18th-century figures worried about.
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When FIFA decided to investigate allegations of corruption related to Qatar 2022, hopes were high that it would no longer tolerate corruption.
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"The only way to root out corruption, the only way to dismiss employees for corruption is an internal investigation," Howard Srebnick argued.
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QUESTION: — The corruption in the country, whether or not the country would look — they were assisting with an ongoing investigation of corruption.
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"It's not enough to set up a new anti-corruption bureau and establish a special prosecutor fighting corruption," Biden said in Kiev.
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She's championed fighting corruption and fighting the establishment in an era where corruption is seen as one of the country's biggest problems.
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He expressed disappointment in Morales's move, but praised the U.N. anti-corruption commission for its work against impunity and corruption in Guatemala.
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"They find the reference to 'pervasive/widespread corruption' in Nigeria inappropriate, given that corruption is relative across the globe," the IMF said.
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"What this is all about is further evidence of corruption, more than bias, corruption at the highest levels of the FBI," Sen.
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Just three years later, his explosive revelations of government corruption to journalists and congressional investigators helped topple Collor in a corruption scandal.
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The government has also worked to drastically cut down on corruption, though wealth from corruption is not accounted for in this report.
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He could be had up on all sorts of charges of corruption and being guilty of corruption in China these days is not something you want to be," adding that "Quite a few people have lost their heads for corruption.
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" Sakvarelidze says Shokin and Lutsenko "do not have a moral right to comment on the corruption of different individuals because they themselves were deeply corrupt, they themselves were heading the corruption, the systemic corruption for decades which was in Ukraine.
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Hoffmann and Bernardo, her husband, are both also facing a separate trial in the sweeping Lava Jato corruption probe, an unprecedented push against corruption in Latin America's biggest economy that has seen scores of powerful politicians and businessmen jailed for corruption.
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See the massive anti-corruption protests that overtook Romania's streets See the massive anti-corruption protests that overtook Romania's streets Romania's move to weaken corruption laws has prompted massive protests, with at least 250,000 people demonstrating across 50 towns on Wednesday.
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"Corruption in the energy sector has been reduced, so some of the main avenues for corruption have moved to defense," said Olena Tregub, the secretary general of the Independent Defense Anti-Corruption Committee, a research group funded by Western donors.
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" Speaking generally about the report, Patricia Moreira, the managing director of Transparency International, said "corruption chips away at democracy to produce a vicious cycle, where corruption undermines democratic institutions and, in turn, weak institutions are less able to control corruption.
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Global corruption watchdog Transparency International this month ranked Liberia 90 out of 176 countries in its annual survey of public perceptions of corruption.
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Mexico ranks 135 out of 180 countries in Transparency International&aposs 2017 Corruption Perception Index, with higher numbers indicating higher levels of corruption.
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Corruption: 77% of Brazilians believe political corruption is rampant, having seen each of their last three presidents face criminal charges or impeachment votes.
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The Ukrainian government, activists and anti-corruption officials have said the judiciary acts as a shield for corruption and distorts the business environment.
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In a worst-case scenario, Saudi Arabia could be moving from an era of predictable corruption to unpredictable corruption and arbitrary asset seizures.
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Moscow (CNN)Anti-corruption protests continued across Russia on Sunday, days after President Vladimir Putin admitted Russia has a problem with state corruption.
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Mexico currently ranks 103rd on the annual Corruption Perceptions Index collated by the anti-corruption NGO Transparency International, alongside Bolivia, Moldova, and Niger.
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Mr. Zuma's nine years in office were a byword for obscene corruption, and he now faces corruption, racketeering, fraud and money laundering charges.
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Zelada faces additional charges including corruption and money laundering in the southern city of Curitiba, the epicenter of Brazil's largest-ever corruption investigation.
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It's hard, I will tell you, to overstate how corrosive it is, the fact that corruption and the perception of corruption over time.
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To date, Buhari's anti-corruption successes include recovering up to $9.1 billion in stolen assets and prosecuting high-profile officials on corruption charges.
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Think, for instance, about the stated rationale of our campaign finance laws: Contribution restrictions exist to prevent corruption, or the appearance of corruption.
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Ending corruption, particularly public sector corruption that has become endemic and systemic in Nigeria, is an ongoing process that cannot be achieved overnight.
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Zuma faces multiple allegations of corruption and in Cyril Ramaphosa -- the new president of the ANC -- he faces a critic of that corruption.
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"Corruption should have been fought a long time ago, because it's corruption that delays society's development," Riyadh resident Hussein al-Dosari told Reuters.
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By contrast, corruption is ultimately impossible to prove because it requires agreement on what the political system would produce absent some said corruption.
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Chay F. Hofileña, who is head of investigations at Rappler, has written about media corruption, and Glenda Gloria, managing editor, about military corruption.
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Mr. Silver was convicted on corruption charges in 2015 only to have the verdict overturned after the Supreme Court narrowed what constitutes corruption.
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He has fought corruption all his life and is now working to create an international court dedicated to combating corruption around the world.
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"This is done for the Kenyan public to believe that the anti-corruption commission are doing something about corruption in Kenya," he said.
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"If we don't kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria," added Mohammed, who did not provide any proof to support the figures he provided.
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"How can we run against the corruption of Donald Trump if we're excusing corruption within our own party?" he asked, according to NJ.com.
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Citizens' views and experiences of corruption in the Middle East and North Africa Global Corruption Barometer for 21625 by the latter NGO shows that Lebanese people are outraged by this situation: 2900 percent of them believe that corruption increased in 220006, 2202 percent believe that the government fails to fight corruption and 2628 percent believe that the same corrupt government.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine," Trump said.
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Aaron Schock, for instance, is still fighting corruption charges — but his Downton Abbey–styled office made the appearance of corruption too easy to fight.
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Since 2014, they've languished at roughly the same dismal position on the annual Corruption Perception Index published by Transparency International, a nonprofit corruption watchdog.
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" Lula, who is charged in four other corruption cases, is the highest-profile defendant in a sprawling corruption probe known as "Operation Car Wash.
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Of 168 countries surveyed by Transparency International, an anti-corruption group Germany, in its annual Corruption Perception Index, Nigeria ranks 32nd from the bottom.
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Asked multiple times during the campaign for specifics on his anti-corruption policy, López Obrador repeatedly said he would end corruption leading by example.
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The Justice Department announced that it is also sending Congress legislative proposals that concern the illegal proceeds of transnational corruption and substantive corruption offenses.
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"Corruption is an ill and when women have access to power they are less prone to falling into the phenomenon of corruption," Hidalgo said.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place," Trump said, per tweets from White House correspondents.
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For decades, prosecutors and police failed to investigate corruption, creating a climate of impunity in which even the grossest corruption became business as usual.
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A wide-ranging investigation into corruption surrounding the construction of many Olympic venues revealed much of these issues are related to corruption and graft.
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Essentially, by legal fiat: a declaration by five Supreme Court justices that what looks, smells and feels like corruption is not in fact corruption.
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"This is a case about corruption — corruption involving lies, bribes and betrayal," a prosecutor, Lara Pomerantz, told the jury in the government's opening statement.
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The officials Mr. Giuliani sought out in the name of fighting corruption were engaged in a long feud with Ukraine's National Anti-Corruption Bureau.
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Trump had not expressed any particular concern about corruption in Ukraine in 2017 or 2018, when corruption was a clear problem in the country.
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"Fighting corruption is really hard," said Igor Matovic, a member of Slovakia's Parliament whose small party was formed seven years ago to combat corruption.
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The Indian government has tried to crack down on bribery and corruption, amending an anti-corruption bill last year and setting up watchdog institutions.
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"What this is all about is further evidence of corruption -- more than bias -- but corruption at the highest levels of the FBI," Johnson said.
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And that infamous crackdown in China on corruption, or at least on the ostentatious display of the fruits of corruption, started two years ago.
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"I heard the president very clearly on that call talking about making sure that corruption — whether that corruption took place in the 2016 election, whether that corruption was continuing to take place, that the moneys that were being provided would be used appropriately," Pompeo said.
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His flamboyant and obvious corruption is also mostly likely legal—as one academic corruption expert told The Baltimore Sun, Maryland is among the national leaders in allowing "legal corruption"—but he is far from the only politician to push the bounds of the law.
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Even though the White House press release following the call stated that President Trump expressed his shared commitment to "root out corruption," President Trump in fact did not mention corruption at all, just like he did not mention corruption on the July 25 call.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, was largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place, was largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son [contributing] to the corruption already in Ukraine," Trump told reporters Sunday.
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The independent commissions investigating allegations of police corruption in the 1970s reported about the opportunities for police corruption created by the enforcement of "problematic" laws.
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Sharif returned late Friday from London along with his daughter Mariam to face a 10-year prison sentence on corruption charges, anti-corruption officials said.
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It's ironic to see Chuck condemn corruption when he was elected through corruption (remember those buses of felons Bobby shipped to the polls last week?).
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Anti-corruption prosecutors have mounted a crackdown on corruption that has been praised by the European Commission, which keeps Romania's justice system under special monitoring.
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Some politicians are even attempting to tarnish the name of one of the country's most respected anti-corruption organisations, the Anti-corruption Action Centre (AntAC).
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Ukraine has been trying, for years, to shake out corruption from its politics, and Zelensky ran on a platform of rooting out corruption, Miller said.
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The series deals with the issue of police corruption, focusing on the AC-12 unit (AC stands for anti-corruption) in an unnamed British city.
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Now the center of a number of corruption investigations, Fernandez personally denies committing graft, though she admits there may have been corruption in her government.
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"There is lots of talk about corruption, but there is very little actual corruption," the 81-year-old told Reuters in his offices in Ramallah.
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Jordan signed the United Nations Convention against corruption in 2003 and, over the years, there have been a variety of amendments to Jordan's corruption laws.
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He's also been dogged by allegations of corruption and has been banned from traveling to the US due to his alleged ties to corruption cases.
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In response to Kennedy's narrow conception of corruption, Harvard Law professor and onetime presidential contender Lawrence Lessig has advocated for a broader idea of corruption.
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In Kenya, where public sector corruption is high, players initially gave less generously to the stranger than players in the US, which has less corruption.
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The Eliot Spitzer case was handled out of the public corruption unit, even as we all realized it wasn't really a traditional public corruption case.
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Corruption: Last year, the IISS report attributed some of the blame for the increase in violence to "institutional weakness and pervasive corruption" among government forces.
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There will be increasing corruption, because remember, the level of corruption is something we haven't seen since probably the 21976s and the Teapot Dome scandal.
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In the meantime, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, after it initiated a case on the president's corruption relating to military purchases, came under intense attack.
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CORRUPTION CASES - Israel's attorney-general has announced his intention to indict Netanyahu in three long-running corruption cases, pending a pre-trial hearing next month.
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"The only way to root out corruption, the only way to dismiss employees for corruption is an internal investigation," Howard Srebnick, another defense attorney, said.
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With Mr Poroshenko's credentials as an enemy of corruption in doubt, the American government helped to set up a new National Anti-corruption Bureau (NABU).
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Tellingly, Trump has a dismal record on fighting corruption, and has repeatedly tried to cut spending on anti-corruption programs in Ukraine and other countries.
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In 2013, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project investigated the Mammadov family's corruption and published well-documented exposés.
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Several high-ranking security officials have been prosecuted since the creation last year of the first-ever anti-corruption commission and anti-corruption justice center.
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Valeo (2600), the Supreme Court recognized that lawmakers must have some power to fight "corruption and the appearance of corruption" by regulating money in politics.
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Last month, the public protector's office, a group charged with investigating official corruption and misconduct, recommended that Mr. Zuma's administration be officially investigated for corruption.
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Corruption is rife in all levels of government in Iraq, which in 2016 ranked 166 out of 176 countries in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
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Her third bill, a broad anti-corruption bill called the Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, was introduced in the House a few weeks ago.
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I think people are worried about all the different states doing it, and you're going to have this corruption; I mean with gambling comes corruption.
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Saakashvili is an unlikely politician to lead an anti-corruption movement: he faces his own set of corruption charges in his home country of Georgia.
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Tennis authorities introduced a new anti-corruption code in 2009 but after taking legal advice were told previous corruption offences could not be pursued, they added.
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Tackling corruption: This is HR 1, the first bill House Democrats will take up in early January — a broad anti-corruption and pro-democracy reform bill.
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The act was named after a Russian anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky who died in a Russian prison in 2009 after exposing corruption in the government.
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President Moïse has sought to carry out reforms combating corruption between government and big business, and empowered Haiti's judiciary to investigate PetroCaribe and other corruption cases.
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In the swirl of corruption investigations, a key fact has gotten lost entirely: Over the past 25 years, corruption has declined precipitously in many developing countries.
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The Oscar-winning actress, 28, stars in the short film Unbreaking America by RepresentUs, a leading anti-corruption group, to tackle systemic corruption in U.S. politics.
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In 2014, China issued Interpol "red notices" for its 100 most-wanted corruption suspects who have fled overseas as part of XI's sweeping campaign against corruption.
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"The president has also instructed the Prevention and Combating of Corruption Bureau to investigate if there was any corruption involved," his office said in a statement.
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The corruption revealed today, corruption that jeopardized our national security and the integrity of our next election, originated from the person sitting in the Oval Office.
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Prince Mohammed's corruption committee "can basically detain anyone for anything they choose to call corruption," said Robert Jordan, the former United States ambassador to Saudi Arabia.
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Corruption was a longstanding problem in Hungary prior to Orbán; in fact, corruption scandals helped propel Fidesz to its first two-thirds majority back in 20163.
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On Transparency International's "corruption perceptions index," which measures public perception of official corruption, Paraguay, in a tie with Bolivia, ranks above only Venezuela in South America.
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However, the judge said it was important to punish public corruption, noting that Silver was one of a series of officials convicted in recent corruption trials.
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"I cannot think of a single prosecutor or judge who stands out" on fighting corruption, said Paul F. Lagunes, a Columbia University professor who studies corruption.
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"We cannot use corruption, or the supposed fight against corruption, in a selective way to neutralise who we think could be future political candidates," she said.
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The last thing any prosecutor -- or any person genuinely interested in fighting corruption -- would do is to insist on a public announcement of a corruption investigation.
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The Global Corruption Barometer 2019 report shows that 44% of Mexicans say corruption has increased over the last year, compared with 61% of Mexicans in 2017.
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BRASILIA, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Brazilian Supreme Court justices approved late on Thursday a ruling that may overturn corruption convictions in the country's largest ever corruption probe.
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U.S. officials — with whom I have been in regular contact — dedicated to investigating corruption in Venezuela have been completely astonished by the magnitude of corruption there.
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Threat posed by corruption and China Tillerson ended his remarks with an appeal to African governments to tackle the threat posed by corruption and bad governance.
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However, as the case of the NYPD illustrates, unless new opportunities for corruption are monitored and the changes affecting opportunities for corruption are made on a continuous basis, police officers with high levels of propensity for corruption will find alternative new ways of obtaining illegal gain.
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"Public sensitivity to corruption is growing and the prime minister has also reflected it in his activities — he has appointed a new head of an anti-corruption unit, spoken at anti-corruption seminars but a symbolic closure is still missing," political analyst Martin Slosiarik told Reuters.
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Russia actually acknowledges anti-corruption protests after detaining opposition leader Russia actually acknowledges anti-corruption protests after detaining opposition leader Russian police detained dozens of people, including opposition leader Alexei Navalny, in anti-corruption protests that drew thousands in Moscow and around the country on Sunday.
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The United States and our partners in Europe have an important role to play in supporting the efforts of Ukrainian reformers to establish key institutional bulwarks against corruption, such an independent anti-corruption court, and to strengthen existing bodies like the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
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There's a trade-off between corruption and polarization, and our regulatory system has swung much too far in one direction Corruption and polarization exist on a continuum.
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Nearly 75 percent of government contracts were awarded directly, without a competitive bid process, according to Mexicans against Corruption and Impunity, a Mexico-based anti-corruption group.
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A new "anti-corruption system" is supposed to police all levels of government, by co-ordinating corruption-fighting agencies and strengthening the federal auditor, among other things.
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A new National Anti-Corruption Bureau is up and running, but another agency intended to prevent corruption and conflicts of interest among officials is not fully staffed.
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In 2015 Mr Saakashvili was enlisted by Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, to fight corruption, but they fell out and he accused the president of abetting corruption himself.
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" Read More How China's anti-corruption drive is hurting growth José Ugaz, the chairman of Transparency International, noted that corruption could be defeated "if we work together.
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The monument was inaugurated in the Riau province city of Pekanbaru last December by Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Chairman Agus Rahardjo to mark International Anti-Corruption Day.
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The body issued a highly critical assessment of Latvia last year, citing corruption, vulnerability to international organized crime and exposure to corruption in neighboring former soviet states.
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Rooting out corruption was one of Mr. Zelensky's campaign pledges, and Mr. Trump asked him to investigate allegations of corruption at the highest levels of both governments.
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According to Reuters, students say they're also against changes to a law concerning the country's anti-corruption watchdog Corruption Eradication Commission, also known by its initials KPK.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's top anti-corruption watchdog has tightened supervision of its 500,000-plus corruption investigators, after some of its own staff were caught in graft probes.
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Corruption experts were divided Thursday about whether the Justice Department's decisions reflected a new approach to corruption cases in the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous decision.
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On corruption: Warren introduced the 2018 Anti-Corruption and Public Integrity Act, a broad set of reforms to restrict the influence of money and lobbying in politics.
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Corruption and black markets are no exception in Tunisia—nearly half the country's GDP comes from the "informal" economy, and corruption has actually increased since the revolution.
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But corruption still festers, top officials suspected of bribe-taking have stayed out of jail, anti-corruption activists have been attacked and reforms sometimes stalled or reversed.
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King told the AP he thought Booker's experience fighting corruption in Newark, N.J., as mayor could translate well to tackling corruption at the federal level as president.
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Menendez's corruption trial presented a problem for Democrats, who started ramping up an anti-corruption message in 2018 aimed at stamping out lobbying and money in politics.
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There were cases that ended up in the public corruption unit because someone brought them to the public corruption unit from a different part of the office.
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Lyubov Sobol, a member of Mr. Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, suggested a mathematics exam might be a more appropriate option for someone who is accused of corruption.
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It's a strange artifact of Ocasio-Cortez's attention-magnetism that her hypotheticals about corruption might have ended up garnering more attention and emotion than the corruption itself.
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Related: Corruption Trial in Canada Dishes Political Secrets as Prime Minister's Former Right-Hand Man Testifies That quaint level of corruption spawned a reverberating chain of events.
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The governing party, which had hoped to rise to victory on the back of corruption was instead undone by the corruption within its own ranks, they said.
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For instance, Trump never mentioned the word "corruption" during his July 25 call with Zelensky, and his "anti-corruption" efforts were only focused on one person -- Biden.
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There may be old-style corruption at the bottom of this CPV plant, but there is definitely a kind of intellectual corruption at the top of it.
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But the initiative may have been doomed from the start, said Artem Sytnyk, director of the National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU), which investigates state corruption.
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Crin Bologa has been named head of the National Anti-corruption Directorate — the DNA — the agency that investigates and prosecutes official corruption, Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu said.
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But it's hard to believe that the same president who has turned a blind eye to corruption in his own administration is worried much about corruption abroad.
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"Corruption, corruption," said Alejandro Reyes Martínez, 24, an employee with a private security firm in Mexico City, explaining why Mr. Guzmán was sent to the United States.
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"In Russia, corruption is not 'corruption' — it's an element of work in this system," said Svetlana Barsukova, a professor at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow.
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Sarbanes is spearheading the comprehensive anti-corruption legislation that is House Democrats' first bill of the year, so he's an obvious ally on Warren's anti-corruption bill.
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"Indeed, many in the GOP have pivoted to a new defense of the president: The new argument is that famous corruption fighter Donald Trump just wanted to fight corruption wherever it may be found, with the assistance of his sidekick, famous corruption fighter Rudolph W. Giuliani," Oakley wrote.
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The IAAF corruption inquiry, focusing on the suppression of positive doping results in return for payments by athletes, coincides with a corruption scandal in world soccer body FIFA.
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Official corruption The Hernandez administration has been dogged by allegations of high-level corruption and drug trafficking, which have even implicated the President himself and his immediate family.
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A previous anti-graft agency failed to tackle corruption among the political elite and many Zimbabweans believe those behind corruption are politically connected and may not be touched.
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But British opposition politicians and anti-corruption campaigners have said Cameron was ill-placed to criticize Nigeria when Britain's own record on combating corruption was less than glorious.
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Corruption is currently one of the most vulnerable points for Vladimir Putin's regime: In June, tens of thousands of Russians turned out to protest Putin allies' systemic corruption.
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Ultimately, the most important reason for Mr. Putin's reluctance to declare a war on corruption is that any anti-corruption campaign will inspire the public to demand change.
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In theory, you could also abuse the power less for this sort of venal corruption and more for the kind of systemic corruption that Trump is proposing here.
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The High Court has jailed members of Mr Rajoy's People's Party (PP) for corruption (and recently summoned the prime minister himself as a witness in a corruption trial).
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Special Agent Darryl Wegner, chief of the F.B.I.'s International Corruption Unit, said that leaders of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission showed "tremendous courage" in pursuing the investigation.
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Last month I attended 2016 Anti-corruption Summit in London where Deloitte signed a joint statement of support with 30 other professional services firms to help eradicate corruption.
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This is where it's sort of symbolic of the Haitian corruption... I think it is one hundred sixty-third worst country in the world in terms of corruption.
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ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN Prince Mohammed tightened his grip on power with the start of the anti-corruption campaign at the weekend, purging the kingdom's political and business elite.
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Then you have the people who covered up for her corruption, and I&aposm counting in the whole thing with the e-mails as part of the corruption.
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The case was among a number of political corruption cases that were overturned after the United States Supreme Court in 2016 narrowed the activity that could constitute corruption.
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We have already begun the effort to defeat the corruption that has plagued our nation, including requiring cabinet ministers to declare their assets and creating anti-corruption courts.
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ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN Prince Mohammed tightened his grip on power with the start of the anti-corruption campaign at the weekend, purging the kingdom's political and business elite.
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But as the election season played out, impatience over political corruption seemed to intensify among voters, in part because a major corruption scandal was unfolding at City Hall.
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Things soon got worse: the attorney general filed two sets of corruption charges against Mr. Temer in 2017, accusing him of corruption, money laundering and obstruction of justice.
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Eskom was "the main theater where corruption, state capture was taking place," Jabu Mabuza, the chairman of Eskom's board, said during recent testimony at a government corruption inquiry.
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The Chinese Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, signaled on Tuesday that Mr. Lu had been detained and was under investigation for corruption.
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The attacks came hours before Sharif returned from London along with his daughter Maryam to face a 10-year prison sentence on corruption charges, anti-corruption officials said.
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The president cannot claim to have legitimate concerns about corruption in Ukraine when he and his lieutenants undercut and sidelined the most effective anti-corruption voices in Kyiv.
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"If you combat corruption, corruption will combat you," added Mr. González Jr., who received a personal audit from the government on the same day that his organizations did.
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Last week, in a brazen effort to make his corruption look normal, the president openly called for another nation — China — to also launch a corruption probe into Biden.
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"Corruption diverts public resources intended for development and we understand, therefore, the anger of many Namibians on the ongoing allegations of corruption in the fishing industry," Geingob said.
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Under neoliberalism, the preferred strategy to deal with corruption was to "roll back the state," in the assumption that a smaller public sector offered fewer opportunities for corruption.
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"Corruption diverts public resources intended for development and we understand, therefore, the anger of many Namibians on the ongoing allegations of corruption in the fishing industry," Geingob said.
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" Another slammed Trump's racism, sexism and corruption: "I am done putting up with the rampant racism, misogyny, & corruption & I won't rest until it's all been rooted out. #AngryMoms.
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As those Trump allies pressed on, tensions with Ukrainian officials flared in March, when Yovanovitch publicly chastised their lackluster efforts to root out corruption and called for the country's special anti-corruption prosecutor, Nazar Kholodnytsky, to be fired after he was caught coaching suspects on how to avoid corruption charges.
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Saudi Arabia had corruption, there's no doubt about that ... It's unfortunate that an anti-corruption person became mired in this whole thing, which is a fact that I accept.
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Global anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International describes Angola as one of the most corrupt states on earth, ranked 164th out of 176 countries on its index of perceived corruption.
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The very short version of this is: Ukraine's top prosecutor was fired for not investigating corruption, but Trump is pushing a theory that he was fired for ... investigating corruption.
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PARIS (Reuters) - The lawyer for Vincent Bollore said on Tuesday the French billionaire was being investigated over the suspected corruption of foreign public officials and suspected complicity in corruption.
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That's partly because the corruption in South African's government seems so entrenched, and some of the politicians who have been accused of corruption are still part of the ANC.
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Cabral faces trial on corruption and money laundering charges as part of the sweeping Operation Car Wash investigation into corruption and political kickbacks focused on state oil company Petrobras.
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He has denied any involvement in bribery or corruption and said his father, who is awaiting trial in France on aggravated money laundering and corruption charges, is also innocent.
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The two presidential candidates who spoke most often of corruption were Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt, both of whom subsequently framed their administration around the need to fight corruption.
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Democrats are planning to point to alleged corruption in the Trump administration as part of their anti-corruption campaign platform for the 2018 midterm elections, The Washington Post reported.
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The case has shocked Indonesians already used to large corruption scandals, and reinforced a widely held perception that parliament, long regarded as riddled with corruption, is a failing institution.
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If party politics keeps the G.O.P. from fairly investigating and punishing corruption, America will never be able to ask another foreign country to investigate and punish its own corruption.
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" The majority opinion never discussed an interest in curbing "corruption," and one justice who voted to invalidate the law even noted that "this [law] does not deal with corruption.
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Ironically, popular distaste with elite corruption is so high that modern autocratic populists, such as President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, have even risen to power on anti-corruption promises.
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Xi's crackdown on corruption has moved in recent months away from high-profile officials to weeding out daily corruption at the grass roots, making almost anyone a potential target.
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Anti-corruption judges would need to be vetted better, while institutions already in place to combat the "plague" of corruption would have to be reinforced and reorganized, he said.
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"There's a famous president of Brazil who ran on the slogan of 'sweeping away corruption' in the 1950s," Matthew Taylor, an American University scholar who studies Brazilian corruption, explained.
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As Mr. Cervantes, the former attorney general, worked quietly behind the scenes, Mexican news organizations and an anti-corruption group, Mexicans Against Corruption and Impunity, aggressively pursued the lead.
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For many Guatemalans, however, neither candidate offered a compelling plan to counter corruption, which contributed to weak voter enthusiasm once stronger anti-corruption advocates were eliminated from the race.
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Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which specialises in publishing exposes on the alleged corruption of state officials, is the subject of a separate criminal investigation into alleged money laundering.
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When you're dealing with political corruption, you want the decision maker to be as far away from the arena of political corruption as possible — and that is the jury.
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Tapes that recently surfaced appear to capture Mr. Temer, who was already under investigation for corruption, approving of bribes paid to a lawmaker who has been jailed for corruption.
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Go deeper: "Sisi out": Corruption allegations drive protestors to streets of Egypt Anti-corruption protests roiling Egypt add to regional insecurity Egypt and Ethiopia take dam dispute to Russia
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"If the economic agenda is successful, these wounds from the corruption issue would be less relevant," said Gil Castello Branco, the director of a political corruption watchdog, Contas Abertas.
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The pressure to stand down stems from a corruption report released late October by the public protector that alleges wide-ranging corruption at the highest levels of government including Zuma.
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Meanwhile, Communist parliamentarians — who hold 92 of the Duma's 450 seats — see corruption as a key issue to connect with the voters and have been proposing new anti-corruption measures.
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Image 2 of 2 BUCHAREST, Romania – Some 3,000 protesters have gathered in the Romanian capital to oppose official corruption a day after a massive government rally against anti-corruption prosecutors.
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The scandal was triggered by a former investigator on an anti-corruption team set up by Moon after a corruption scandal led to the impeachment and ouster of his predecessor.
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Mr. da Silva wants to stand as a candidate in the October election, although he was convicted last year of corruption and still faces charges in six other corruption cases.
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Lula has already been charged twice in connection to a massive anti-corruption investigation centered on state oil company Petrobras and will stand trial before anti-corruption judge Sergio Moro.
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Tennis officials on Wednesday launched an independent review into their anti-corruption practices after allegations the sport's watchdog had not done enough to stamp out possible corruption in the game.
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Transparency International called upon governments to prosecute corruption, allow for freedom of the press, establish independent anti-corruption commissions, make officials disclose holdings, enact codes of conduct and protect whistleblowers.
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And on the occasion of the United Nations' International Anti-Corruption Day, we are reminded that corruption is probably the greatest systemic threat faced by democracies and aspiring democracies today.
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BLANTYRE (Reuters) - Malawi's President Peter Mutharika began his second five-year term with a tough stance against corruption and pledged to revive the economy, following accusations of corruption and mismanagement.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's military and anti-corruption agency have identified three suspects in a corruption investigation into the controversial purchase of an AgustaWestland helicopter, the military chief said on Friday.
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Da Silva was convicted of corruption earlier this year, making him the highest-profile casualty of "Operação Lava Jato" (Operation Car Wash), a sweeping corruption investigation that has rattled Brazil.
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Now the American people know that the GOP has been corrupted — and whenever a little corruption comes to light, you can bet there is even more corruption in the shadows.
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King Salman has just made MBS chair of a new supreme committee on corruption, with the power to "take any precautionary measures" against corruption, including arrest and seizure of assets.
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A decision will be made about whether to charge the three players with "a corruption offense under the Tennis Anti-Corruption Programme," the I.T.F. told the Associated Press last week.
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The gunning-down of Jan Kuciak, 27, who investigated corruption among politically-connected business people, and his fiancee at their home in February increased widespread anger about persistent corruption allegations.
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There is no corporate criminal liability for corruption, so companies such as Odebrecht have no legal incentive either to prevent corruption or to disclose it and seek a plea bargain.
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"The new president of Ukraine ran on the basis of no corruption... but there was a lot of corruption having to do with the 2016 election against us," he said.
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To strengthen anti-corruption reforms, center-left senator Claudia Lopez pushed for an August vote that will ask Colombians whether congressional salaries should be cut and sentences for corruption stiffened.
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In 1995, Mr. Giuliani, who had worked with Mr. Scoppetta in the United States attorney's office on police corruption cases, named him chairman of the Commission to Combat Police Corruption.
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Corruption is rampant among the country's political and business class, according to organizations such as Transparency International, which ranks Madagascar in the lowest quarter of its global Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Petrobras argued at the time that the contract had been awarded to the U.S. company "by way of corruption," according to findings by Brazil's Operation Car Wash anti-corruption investigation.
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While there were officials involved in corruption from parties across the political spectrum, including the Workers' Party, there were no charges of corruption against Ms. Rousseff in the impeachment proceedings.
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Passing strong anti-corruption legislation through the House would make an important statement and lay the groundwork for a more ambitious anti-corruption agenda — even if Senate Republicans kill it.
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"The U.S. government is committed to leveraging our human rights and corruption authorities to target, disrupt, and counter those who engage in abuse and corruption around the world," Mandelker said.
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The big picture: Giammattei campaigned on improving security, boosting economic growth, promoting socially conservative values and fighting corruption, though he opposes the renewal of a UN–backed anti-corruption commission.
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After the first jury in his trial was hung at 11 to 1 for conviction on key corruption counts, prosecutors tried again -- securing convictions on 17 of 20 corruption charges.
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And the powerful business community, which had declared that it was time for an end to corruption, pushed back when new corruption cases swept up the owners of powerful companies.
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Sanders should join his cohorts and re-establish himself as America's anti-corruption leader by pledging to tackle corruption not only as a platform issue, but as his first issue.
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"Still, corruption is a constraint on the Pakistan story," Malik said, adding that "fiscal sustainability cannot be established" unless corruption across the country's large undocumented and untaxed sector is addressed.
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Mr. Shokin had been repeatedly accused of turning a blind eye to corruption in his office and among the Ukrainian political elite, and criticized for failing to bring corruption cases.
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He had exposed their hypocrisy and corruption," said the popular musician Fumba Chama, who has repeatedly criticized government corruption in songs like "Koswe Mumpoto," which means "Rat in the Pot.
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She began airing two new ads in Iowa this week that touch on corruption, and this Thursday, she will deliver a speech about corruption and the economy in New Hampshire.
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Republicans also pushed Yovanovitch on Trump's handling of corruption allegations in Ukraine prompting the former US ambassador to confirm that Trump brought corruption claims up to former Ukrainian president Poroshenko.
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So endemic is corruption that Transparency International has ranked Ukraine almost on par with Mali and Liberia -- at 93 among 180 countries rated for perceived levels of public-sector corruption.
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Trump dismisses corruption claims Touching on corruption claims tainting his administration's reputation, Trump also dismissed concerns that his administration was directing government business to his resorts in Scotland and Ireland.
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" Facts First: Trump showed little interest in fighting corruption before Biden launched his campaign, and official government records suggest Trump was motivated by politics, not Ukraine's "history of pervasive corruption.
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Often seen as operating outside of the law and with their own agenda, police and lawmakers face the derision of a community supportive of the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK), the country's anti-corruption agency that routinely ranks among the most trusted, in its efforts to weed out corruption in Indonesia's government and police.
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South Korean president removed from office following corruption scandal South Korean president removed from office following corruption scandal South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been removed from office after the Constitutional Court on Friday upheld a decision by the National Assembly to impeach her on charges of corruption and dereliction of duty.
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Photo via Facebook "We have a female presidential candidate who didn't think twice about studying with the proceeds of corruption, who has various members of congress investigated for corruption, one very recently convicted of illicit enrichment," said Verónika Mendoza, taking a stab at Keiko Fujimori during an anti-corruption conference in January.
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And the US has taken off a lot of the pressure on these governments to root out corruption, quietly backing away from its full-throated support of those anti-corruption initiatives.
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What the Mueller investigation continually reveals is the extent of everyday corruption in US business and politics — corruption that often connects to Russian actors but is also distinctly American in origin.
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Xi's anti-corruption crackdown has punished more than a million party members, jailed top military figures and retired security tsar Zhou Yongkang, the most senior official toppled for corruption since 1949.
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It all stems from a 2014 corruption sting called "Operation Car Wash," which showed the ruling party was engaged in widespread corruption of Petrobras, the country's massive quasi-state oil company.
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So there you have it: It is all about corruption, and this is about as unadulterated as corruption gets in our hallowed democracy, other than literal cash under a literal table.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities on Thursday took into custody a former trade minister convicted in absentia for corruption cases, following his extradition from Lebanon, Iraq's corruption watchdog said in a statement.
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Peru is trying to wrest back the funds in an ongoing 15-year-old corruption probe against Fujimori and his spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, who are both in jail for corruption.
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Anti-corruption campaign Zhao Leji, 60, the youngest new standing committee member, inherits one of the most powerful roles in Chinese politics, becoming head of the party's anti-corruption task force.
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Macau's corruption body said some of the people involved in the corruption case had been detained, while travel restrictions had been put on others, as well as "suspension from public duties".
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Current President Petro Poroshenko and his government also have shown corrupt tendencies, meddling with the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, a Ukrainian government organization, created in 2014 to help clean up corruption.
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"The behavior itself is corrupting, and it's creating corruption and the appearance of corruption," said Meredith McGehee, the executive director of Issue One, a group that advocates for ethics in government.
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" That includes ensuring that "key government institutions [are] empowered to fight corruption … public support for and engagement in anti-corruption efforts [is] increased … [and] public tolerance of corrupt practices [is] reduced.
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Schiff in his closing statement sought to undermine the argument that Trump was interested in pursuing anti-corruption measures in Ukraine by highlighting examples he alleged proved the president's own corruption.
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Questions of corruption have extended to Olympics planning, particularly after a businessman who worked on many Olympic projects in Rio was convicted of corruption and money laundering related to separate contracts.
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Solomon's interview made a blockbuster (and false) assertion: Yovanovitch had given Lutsenko a "do-not-prosecute" list that included a founder of an anti-corruption group, Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAc).
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As a condition for its last major lending program, negotiated in 2015, the I.M.F. insisted Ukraine establish an independent anti-corruption law enforcement group, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine.
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Rood had certified that Ukraine had taken necessary anti-corruption steps to merit giving them $250 million, undercutting Trump's later argument that he held up the aid over concerns about corruption.
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Mr. Marican told local media that he would work to enforce a zero-tolerance policy on corruption, not that he would open a corruption investigation against Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
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Giammattei's strategy to uproot corruption from political life will be closely watched after Morales chased out the U.N.-backed anti-corruption body that led the investigation into him and his family.
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But when prosecutors or judges gain enough independence to investigate and prosecute corruption, widespread corruption suddenly becomes widespread vulnerability, creating an incentive for politicians to take drastic action to protect themselves.
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The Honduran government is currently negotiating the renewal of its anti-corruption mechanism, the Mission to Support the Fight Against Corruption and Impunity, or MACCIH, with the Organization of American States.
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Though the US had jurisdiction over the Bidens, Trump ignored extensive US corruption statutes and outsourced his concern for "corruption" to another country rather than have his own attorney general investigate.
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The War Against Corruption As critical as the war against Russia is, Ukraine's struggling democracy has an equally important challenge: Battling the Soviet legacy of corruption, which has pervaded Ukraine's government.
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Trump as a standard bearer for global anti-corruption measures would be an international embarrassment to the U.S. The use of an official position in government for personal gain is corruption.
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PARIS, Jan 31 (Reuters) - European planemaker Airbus must accept a three-year 'light compliance monitoring' by the French anti-corruption agency under corruption settlement terms, a French court said on Friday.
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sacked Geneina, who led the country's top anti-corruption watchdog, in March after he publicly concluded that government corruption had cost the country billions of dollars.
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Business-as-usual politics strikes most people as evidence of widespread corruption, undermines faith in the system, and makes complaints about Trump's more egregious acts of corruption feel fake and hypocritical.
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Double down on economic pressure; target regime corruption & repression.
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GINGRICH: -- the level of corruption would have been unbelievable.
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Great corruption & dishonesty by Schiff on the other side!
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" The keyword for Democrats and their intransience was "corruption.
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"This - political corruption - is known by people as 'buckwheat'".
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South America is a place where ... we've seen corruption.
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Great corruption & dishonesty by Schiff on the other side!
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" Getting the needling nature of such a maneuver may require a little context: In July 2013, Mr. Cuomo, faced with a barrage of corruption charges and convictions in the Capitol, proposed a Moreland Commission "to probe systemic corruption and the appearance of such corruption in state government, political campaigns and elections in New York State.
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Water rights activists, labour unions and environmentalists blame the failure on the endemic corruption that permeates so much of Nigeria, which ranks in the bottom fifth on Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
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" She said she would remain a prosecutor but not at the anti-corruption agency, and ended her statement with an appeal to ordinary Romanians: "Corruption can be beaten, don&apost give up!
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Few saw the trial as being the start of real change, to end corruption in a country that ranked 113 of 176 countries on Transparency International's most recent index of corruption perceptions.
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The call sheet Bolton generated to recommend scheduling the call focused "on Zelensky's potential to eliminate corruption in particular," one official said, and briefing materials talked up Zelensky's anti-corruption campaign platform.
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And Amlo, he's not talking about corruption in let's say a specific program within a specific government office and then say like he's going to decrease corruption there by 5% or whatever.
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Far from being a tool of political corruption, the Civil Service was created to be an antidote to the very kind of corruption and self-dealing that seems to plague this administration.
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"I run the war on corruption here, or to be precise, I run the corruption," the group's leader, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, sings alluding to accusations of high-level wrongdoing in Mr. Chaika's office.
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He is expected to seek a review of the report by Thuli Madonsela, the former anti-corruption ombudsman, in which she called for a judicial commission of inquiry into high-level corruption.
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After a 2014 Afrobarometer report found incidents of corruption in the Ghanaian judiciary, Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood called for a purge of the Ghanaian judiciary and spoke out about corruption often.
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"I run the war on corruption here, or, to be precise, I run the corruption here," raps Nadya Tolokonnikova, the group's co-founder, playing the role of Russia's prosecutor-general, Yuri Chaika.
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"We have referred to Article 10 of the electoral law which stipulates that people guilty of corruption — witness tampering being a form of corruption — do not satisfy the eligibility criteria," Atundu said.
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Lula's successor Dilma Rousseff was taken down by corruption claims last year, while the current president, Michel Temer, has also been accused of corruption, along with other members of the country's elite.
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CORRUPTION ISSUE Subsidised gas for households is a source of corruption in Ukraine because businesses divert it for their own use to avoid paying market prices, draining money from the state budget.
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Moreover, Uzbekistan became renowned for its corruption with Karimov as its leader—in recent years, the country consistently has ranked below 153 (out of 168 countries) in Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
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Al-Sudany is wanted for at least nine corruption cases and received eight imprisonment sentences in absentia for graft charges related to food import violations, the corruption watchdog said in the statement.
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"In every white-collar corruption or a deal, there's a professional facilitating," Halakhe Waqo of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) said in an address to a gathering of professional associations.
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Allegations of corruption, in this first sense, have always been a part of American political discourse, but there is more talk of corruption at moments of populist uprisings against the status quo.
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His controversial past may have played a role: He's been dogged by allegations of corruption and has been banned from traveling to the US due to his alleged ties to corruption cases.
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Targeting political opponents with claims of corruption has a storied and sordid history in places like Putinist Russia, where authorities recently slapped anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny with claims of money laundering.
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The spokesman also told the Thomson Reuters Foundation that the police force had provided "full assistance" to the Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption during investigations into corruption complaints involving police officers.
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He has been told that his anti-corruption campaign is not an economic policy, but he may be more interested to hear that his economic policy is a petri dish for corruption.
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Those three join a long list of Alabama elected officials convicted of corruption charges over the years, a list that state political experts say speaks to the culture of corruption in Montgomery.
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"The way political power and economic power are generated in Argentina breeds excessive opportunities for corruption," said Natalia Volosin, a legal researcher who has written widely on corruption and transparency in Argentina.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Tennis officials on Wednesday launched an independent review into their anti-corruption practices after allegations the sport's watchdog had not done enough to stamp out possible corruption in the game.
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According to the Global Corruption Barometer survey, 67% of Latin Americans believe corruption has risen during past year, and more than half feel that their governments are failing to address the problem.
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece should tighten the rules of conduct for its legislators and judiciary to prevent corruption, a senior official in the Council of Europe's anti-corruption agency said in an interview.
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But in Citizens, Justice Kennedy said the only kind of corruption that would count in this context is the most direct kind: "quid pro quo" corruption, which covers only vote-buying bribery.
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They are demanding that Parliament pass a law to establish the independent court for high-level corruption cases and two other measures related to fighting corruption and making election campaigns more transparent.
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Ukraine passed a law criminalising illicit enrichment in 2015 but the constitutional court overturned the law in February, sparking concern among anti-corruption campaigners, the anti-corruption bureau and Ukraine's overseas backers.
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"This is the beginning of a political offensive against the fundamental pillars that are against corruption in Honduras," said Gabriela Castellanos, the director of the National Anti-Corruption Council, a private group.
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Saakashvili is an unsuspecting politician to lead Ukraine's anti-corruption movement: he's the subject of an extradition request from Georgian authorities in Tbilisi, where he's been convicted of corruption while in office.
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Slovaks have been voicing their concerns over many unresolved corruption scandals in the past few years, most recently during the student-led anti-corruption demonstrations in the capital, Bratislava, and other cities.
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As anger and frustration with entrenched political corruption has grown, Mr. Bolsonaro has presented himself as an anti-establishment maverick who could effectively combat corruption and rein in soaring violence and crime.
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The country ratified the United Nations Convention Against Corruption in 2004, and the next year it established the National Anticorruption Directorate, or D.N.A., giving prosecutors the independence to target high-level corruption.
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Werman: In Washington's stated campaign to fight corruption in Ukraine — is the idea of fighting corruption in Ukraine these days simply just not a good way to frame the US-Ukraine relationship?
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Land registration is a cumbersome process in Tanzania, riddled by corruption and mismanagement, which is why most people lack formal rights to their land, according to Transparency International's 2013 Global Corruption Barometer.
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"The spread of democratization and market reform should reduce corruption in the long run," she argued, while noting that the exposure of widespread corruption could lead to widespread public anger at first.
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In Angola, which is in the midst of a massive corruption scandal involving the former president's daughter, Mr. Pompeo railed against the "destructive" nature of corruption and its impact on ordinary people.
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Some of it rises to the level of criminal public corruption, but most of it is a corrosive political corruption which grasps at power that, in turn, leads to significant personal wealth.
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To avoid the risks of being assailed with charges of corruption (or at least mismanagement), ruling parties take control of the judiciary and declare anti-corruption nongovernmental organizations enemies of the people.
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At last May's landmark anti-corruption summit in London, the government headed by then-Prime Minister David Cameron said it would present an anti-corruption strategy by the end of the year.
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While the corruption trial against Mr. al-Bashir is crucial, many Sudanese worry that by trying him first on corruption, meaningful justice will not be delivered, said Mr. Horner, the Sudan expert.
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Earlier Monday, Trump defended the idea of raising corruption issues with foreign leaders, telling reporters it was fair to ask about corruption while deciding whether to provide aid to a foreign government.
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Ultimately, if Trump's "anti-corruption" impeachment defense were based on fact, he would have stopped his top lieutenants and cheerleaders from undercutting and sidelining the most effective voices against corruption in Ukraine.
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Zelenskiy's predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, unveiled a special court to try corruption cases in April in a bid to root out entrenched corruption and ring-fence court decisions from political pressure or bribery.
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But as someone who has spent his life in the Balkans (and therefore knows a thing about corruption), I have learned that being corrupt is hardly a reason not to declare a war on corruption; on the contrary, it could be an incentive, because there is nothing that corrupt politicians hate more than other people's corruption.
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"[President Volodymyr] Zelensky got elected on a platform of rooting out corruption, which we're glad about, but nobody really knew if he was going to follow through, and because of Ukraine's history of corruption, the law required that before any taxpayer money go to Ukraine, the president had to ensure they're rooting out corruption," he told Wallace on Sunday.
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"[President Volodymyr] Zelensky got elected on a platform of rooting out corruption, which we're glad about, but nobody really knew if he was going to follow through and because of Ukraine's history of corruption, the law required that before any taxpayer money go to Ukraine the president had to ensure they're rooting out corruption," he added.
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"The conversation I had was largely congratulatory, with largely corruption, all of the corruption taking place and largely the fact that we don't want our people like Vice President Biden and his son creating to the corruption already in the Ukraine and Ukraine has got a lot of problems," he said, before taking off for an event in Texas.
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The former boss of an anti-corruption agency (in a country that will have to remain nameless, for obvious legal reasons) tells how it managed to get corruption charges brought against a politician.
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Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the annual meeting of China's parliament, Chen said the cases of Bo and Sun were more than just ordinary corruption - more important was their political corruption.
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The Corruption Eradication Commission, known locally as the KPK, demanded that judges presiding over Novanto's trial find him "legally and convincingly proven guilty of jointly committing corruption", prosecutor Abdul Basir told the court.
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Here are the risks: Outright corruption The possibility of corruption is the biggest risk that stems from his family continuing to profit from the Trump properties, both within the United States and overseas.
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So rather than spending $1 trillion fuelling corruption in Afghanistan, perhaps NATO could allocate some of this to beefing up the enforcement of anti-corruption in places like London, New York and Paris.
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Samsung's legal battle won't end South Korea's cycle of corruption Samsung's legal battle won't end South Korea's cycle of corruption South Korea's corrupt system of business and politics is going on trial — again.
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And in discussions of this I am seeing on the air, it&aposs like oh this is fascinating, oh this guy was worried about corruption, this woman was worried about corruption, whistle blower.
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The situation underscores how current corruption investigations in Brazil are triggering warning signs among dozens of Brazilian companies, as findings of corruption, graft and bribery rings spread to more sectors of the economy.
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Consider, for example, how China really has seen a reduction in corruption in the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping's draconian anti-corruption campaign that most analysts also see as a power grab.
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Sharif, implicated in a corruption scandal sparked by the publication of the Panama Papers, resigned soon after the ruling, but he and his children are now facing a criminal investigation into corruption allegations.
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Bob McDonnell on public corruption charges, saying that although she was "incredibly proud" of the case her office brought "with integrity," the reversal of his prosecution "set a standard for public corruption cases."
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The party's corruption watchdog said Wang, who was also the vice-chairman and executive director of People's Insurance, had been expelled from the party for "serious discipline violations," the usual euphemism for corruption.
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He was poised to be a breath of fresh air after the corruption that tainted much of Grant's presidency, but the same men who allowed that corruption to happen were Hayes' biggest antagonists.
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Saipem said it reserved the right to appeal a court ruling in the Algeria corruption case that found the oil services group Saipem and a former CEO guilty of corruption but acquitted Eni.
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Incumbent Poroshenko has been accused of not doing enough to tackle corruption, although he has moved to salvage an anti-corruption law that was thrown out by the country's constitutional court in February.
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Highest reaches of power implicated Rousseff was impeached last year after the Senate found her guilty of breaking budgetary laws amid the swirling corruption investigation -- though she herself was not accused of corruption.
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Among advanced economies, countries with the lowest levels of corruption collected nearly 5 percent of GDP more in tax revenues on average than countries with the highest levels of corruption, the IMF found.
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There is some countervailing evidence, that relative rankings of corruption do have some validity: diplomats from countries where corruption is seen as more pervasive are less likely to pay parking fines, for example.
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Brazil's Public Prosecutor's Office, the Federal Police, government agencies and the judicial system itself rely on the wide support of a society that tolerates neither corruption nor complacency in the face of corruption.
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On corruption, the group found that persuadable voters think corruption is endemic to both Democrats and Republicans, but that the main concern voters have is how donors are benefiting from the Trump administration.
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GRECO, which comprises 47 Council of Europe member states, Belarus and the United States, aims to improve the capacity of its members to fight corruption by monitoring their compliance with anti-corruption standards.
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"It meant to influence in a way that changes something that's good and fit to something that's bad and unfit, namely the corruption of evidence or the corruption of a decisionmaker," he added.
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More corruption charges It is the second time the former prime minister has been sent to prison this year: Sharif and his daughter, Maryam were jailed for a different corruption case in July.
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Its leader Abhisit Vejjajiva told voters at a rally they did not have to choose between "dictatorship" and "corruption", referring respectively to Prayuth and Thaksin, who fled to avoid corruption charges in 2008.
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Allegations of high-level corruption and criminal misconduct have buffeted world soccer since 2015, when several dozen soccer officials, mainly from Latin America, were indicted in the United States on corruption-related charges.
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There's Sheldon Silver, the New York State power broker whose 2015 corruption conviction was overturned because the Supreme Court has made it extremely hard for prosecutors to get political corruption charges to stick.
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He noted that voters tend to overestimate levels of political corruption in the United States, and that strongmen leaders often cloak their intentions with anti-corruption rhetoric, much as Trump did in 2016.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Nawaz Sharif, the prime minister of Pakistan until he was forced from office over corruption allegations in July, was indicted on Thursday along with two other family members on corruption charges.
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This action, along with the continued failure to execute warrants for those accused of corruption, calls into question the government's commitment to combating #corruption and making best use of donors' support. 2/2
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Finally, and perhaps most importantly, fighting corruption by reducing bureaucratic demands on businesses should reduce cynicism surrounding Iraqi government anti-corruption efforts since any businessperson can directly observe the effects of this policy.
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"It has been convincingly proven that Setya Novanto has committed corruption together with many others," said Judge Wanto, head of a five-judge panel at the Jakarta Corruption Court, in the Indonesian capital.
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However, Giammattei's strategy to uproot corruption from political life will be closely watched after his predecessor, fellow conservative Jimmy Morales, chased out a U.N.-backed anti-corruption body investigating him and his family.
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In Slovakia, where a huge anti-corruption movement over the past year has upended the political establishment, the Americans "haven't been that important", says Miroslav Beblavy, an MP from an anti-corruption party.
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First he said he withheld the funds because he was worried about "corruption" in Ukraine, potentially a legitimate concern, but presidents tend not to not use their personal lawyers for anti-corruption initiatives.
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In both cases, the defense has been some version of "there's no evidence of corruption," which doesn't do a lot to dispel the outsider's view that it really looks a lot like corruption.
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak will face further corruption charges related to money allegedly siphoned off from scandal-plagued state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (13MDB), the anti-corruption agency said on Wednesday.
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He certified to Congress in May that Ukraine had taken necessary anti-corruption steps to merit giving them $250 million, undercutting Trump's argument that he held up the aid over concerns about corruption.
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The odd and chaotic campaign has played out amid a more standard plot for this city: A corruption scandal is simultaneously unfolding at City Hall, a place all too familiar with corruption scandals.
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Court records in the Nigeria graft trial show that the two directors never testified that Descalzi had known or was involved in corruption, only stating that Eni had lacked proper anti-corruption controls.
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But corruption charges have cast a shadow over his administration.
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Speaker Ryan is giving a green light to congressional corruption.
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He has his own corruption problems to deal with first.
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Rooting out corruption is more important than most people realize.
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Kenya's finance minister, Henry Rotich, was arrested on corruption charges.
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The region suffers from electricity outages, unemployment and entrenched corruption.
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Even these noble attempts are susceptible to corruption from within.
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The former president is also facing several other corruption charges.
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"He genuinely thinks there is corruption there," the official said.
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Their critics accuse them of widespread corruption, which they deny.
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He immediately promised to tackle corruption, especially in public institutions.
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Corruption is like gangrene that poisons democracy, business and society.
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This story stinks not just of neglect, but outright corruption.
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In 1992, former President Fernando Collor was accused of corruption.
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Under Pakistani law, that is taken as proof of corruption.
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The issue of corruption has dominated Romanian politics for years.
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But Hunter's corruption scandal has taken a toll his candidacy.
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It is one of the largest corruption scandals in history.
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A year later, Anwar was convicted of corruption and sodomy.
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Even more pressing are allegations of corruption surrounding the project.
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And the politics of corruption are simple: Voters hate it.
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Some of the corruption allegations against Trump are utterly direct.
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But corruption doesn't contradict what Trump's fans know about him.
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Facts First: There is simply no evidence of Obama corruption.
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It instead projects a corruption of the spirit and weakness.
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The economy is stagnant and corruption is rife (see chart).
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Other issues important to voters were the economy and corruption.
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WHERE there is money in football, there is usually corruption.
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She is on trial for corruption and denies the charges.
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The incident intensified public accusations of state corruption and mismanagement.
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MOSCOW — Corruption in Russia sometimes amounts to highway robbery, literally.
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His ideas for reducing corruption are not much more elaborated.
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Mr Erdogan describes the corruption claims as a Gulenist plot.
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Bob McDonnell, who was convicted in 2014 of corruption charges.
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This summer demonstrations returned over low wages and entrenched corruption.
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It was the first day of his trial for corruption.
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Corruption, though still vast, is being curbed in some areas.
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The other is the Lava Jato ("Car Wash") corruption investigations.
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Corruption investigations in Latin America threaten democracy in two ways.
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Corruption runs so deep that it is hard to eliminate.
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Bob Menendez faced corruption charges (which ended in a mistrial).
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The artist, Fahmi Reza, said the picture was protesting corruption.
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ZEE is a monument to Angola's gigantism, corruption and folly.
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And many MPLA bigwigs would hate to see corruption curbed.
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"Secret money is the formula for corruption," Mr. Wertheimer said.
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There appears to be no bottom to President Trump's corruption.
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There's some corruption that is so deep, ladies and gentlemen.
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The core founders of Rappler have always looked at corruption.
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He's been accused of presiding over corruption and democratic backsliding.
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The town's previous mayor is in prison on corruption charges.
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Corruption in public life is far from unknown in Israel.
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"The real corruption is at state enterprises," says Mr Sun.
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For years he has railed against nepotism and political corruption.
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Mr Zuma faces 783 charges of corruption, which he denies.
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Poroshenko's unpopularity is tied to his failure to tackle corruption.
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Delays and corruption have blighted work on the new cosmodrome.
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Bob McDonnell or his wife Maureen on public corruption charges.
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But his enemies accuse him of corruption, which he denies.
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Thaksin fled to avoid a 2008 jail term for corruption.
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Her government has been fighting corruption allegations for a while.
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HANNITY: I think the timing is backwards that shows corruption.
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"Hillary Clinton is the personification of that corruption," added Gingrich.
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So, what is the result of all of this corruption?
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The state's corruption also plays out in more traditional ways.
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The two men were also charged in the corruption probe.
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" On Wednesday, Petrobras repeated the contract was made "through corruption.
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He denies opposition accusations that he fosters cronyism and corruption.
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"There's been too much corruption," another former AK voter said.
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Russia's economy went into a nosedive, and corruption was rampant.
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"No, Putin and corruption are easy to defeat," he responds.
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Government critics say the public sector is rife with corruption.
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The best known of his campaigns is aimed at corruption.
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His allies promised to tackle corruption and curtail foreign influence.
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Boente also led the corruption prosecution of former Virginia Gov.
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And three deceased presidents were also touched by corruption scandals.
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Investigative journalists have catalogued corruption at all levels of government.
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In almost every campaign speech, he pledged to fight corruption.
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Beyond the Russia investigation lies shocking levels of administrative corruption.
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Blagojevich became the second consecutive Illinois governor convicted of corruption.
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He came to power in 2011 pledging to fight corruption.
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Corruption was just part of the rules of the game.
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Critics fear that forgiving corruption will encourage more of it.
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But I also notice that the state struggles against corruption.
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The prosecution of corruption has helped make Mr Moreno popular.
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Even if she wins, her corruption fight will face obstacles.
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The move was supposedly to curb corruption and tax evasion.
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No promise to clean up corruption and then plunder away.
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The Chinese state regards golf as a source of corruption.
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Meanwhile, humiliating debt restructurings and rumours of corruption alienate locals.
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Temer managed to block a first corruption charge in August.
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Johnson Sirleaf's administration was also dogged by several corruption scandals.
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Protesters are demanding Park step down amid a corruption scandal.
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The group says it fights against police corruption and lawlessness.
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JARRETT: You know, this is really the definition of corruption.
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Corruption ran deep in the territory years before this administration.
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Nigeria has struggled with corruption and looted funds for decades.
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Rikabi and Maliki had a reputation for corruption and ruthlessness.
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His dangerous undercover investigations exposed bribery and corruption among officials.
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It, instead, projects a corruption of the spirit and weakness.
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Argentina Argentina's ex-president was hit with corruption charges -- again.
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His goal is to expose corruption amongst the tech elite.
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So Mimenza launched his own battle against corruption and impunity.
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"He's a person of integrity who fights corruption," she said.
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"Perhaps watching this, Brazilians will understand corruption doesn't pay off."
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Setya Novanto, the colourful House speaker, faced allegations of corruption.
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In ancient Rome, rulers used corruption charges to eliminate enemies.
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The news is mostly about corruption, Boko Haram, or poverty.
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The second factor is corruption, especially in Venezuela and Brazil.
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Alas, FIFA, the governing body of world football, spells corruption.
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"There exist hidden dangers for breeding corruption," the statement added.
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He has blamed the blackouts on government corruption and mismanagement.
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It seems like corruption waits only for its next opportunity.
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They also accuse him of failing to tame rampant corruption.
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At home they have taken useful steps to curb corruption.
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"It's true - there's a lot of injustice, corruption," he said.
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