Tag: embezzlement

A former head of Georgia’s State Security Service, Grigol Liluashvili, has been sentenced to 13 years in prison on corruption charges, marking another significant...

Alex Nain Saab Moran, a 54-year-old Venezuelan businessman and former Minister of Industry under the government of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, has pleaded...

A high-profile criminal case involving former Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze has concluded with a plea agreement that significantly reduces his period of imprisonment...

Ukraine’s High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) has sentenced sitting Member of Parliament Oleksandr Yurchenko to nine years in prison, confiscated his property and barred him...

Former Sri Lankan Minister of Civil Aviation Priyankara Jayaratne has been sentenced to seven years of rigorous imprisonment by the Colombo High Court after...

Former Ecuadorian President Lenín Moreno has been sentenced to five years in prison after an Ecuadorian court found him guilty of accepting bribes linked...

Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has been charged with failing to fully declare his assets, making him the third former Malaysian prime...

Massachusetts State Representative Francisco Paulino has been arrested and charged with allegedly fraudulently obtaining more than $700,000 in COVID-19 unemployment benefits and federally backed...

Armenian state prosecutors have detained former President Robert Kocharyan and formally charged him with multiple corruption-related offences, opening a new legal battle involving one...

A former high-ranking New Mexico Democratic legislator and public school administrator has been convicted on dozens of federal charges following a yearslong scheme in...

The defining challenge for banks is shifting from “Is this information genuine?” to “Does this customer actually exist?” Synthetic identity fraud combines real and fabricated...

An İstanbul court has ordered the pretrial detention of Üsküdar Mayor Sinem Dedetaş and three others as part of an ongoing corruption investigation, marking...

Turkish authorities have detained Erdal Besikcioglu, the mayor of Etimesgut Municipality and a former television actor best known for portraying detective Behzat C., in...

A former Guatemalan mayor, Romeo Ramos Cruz, 58, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to import more than five kilograms of cocaine...