Peru’s Fujimori pleads guilty to wiretapping, bribery
GenevaLunch News Former President Alberto Fujimori pleaded guilty in his fourth and final trial in Lima, Peru on charges of illegal wiretapping and bribery 28 September. He will be sentenced Wednesday...
View ArticleChina’s once-richest man gets 14 yrs
GenevaLunch News Huang Guangyu, once the richest man in China, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison by a Beijing court that found him guilty of bribes, insider trading and illegal business...
View ArticleFifa suspends six in bribery scam case
GenevaLunch News International sports, football Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Fifa, the international football federation, has provisionally suspended two members of its executive board and four...
View ArticleSwiss court case misleads foreign media on bribery: Swiss among world’s...
GenevaLunch News Holenweger case tests tougher anti-corruption laws in country already considered one of world’s best at fighting bribery Ed. note: AP (here, picked up by Business Week) late Saturday...
View ArticleTwo Brits among those investigated in Geneva for bribery, money laundering
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss public broadcaster Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) reports that three Al Rushaid Petroleum Investment Corp employees have been charged by the Geneva public...
View ArticleSwiss and Dutch “least likely to bribe” abroad
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Swiss companies share first place at the bottom of the list, but for a change this is a good thing: the list is Transparency International’s (TI) rankings of...
View ArticleAnti-corruption group says Swiss need political contributions law
GenevaLunch News BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s anti-corruption laws are good, but they should be strengthened, the government has been told by The Council of Europe’s Group of States against...
View ArticleMore bribery behind sharp increase in suspect money flows
GenevaLunch News Arab spring played a role Numbers are impressive but it’s the criminal tales that are gripping BERN, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland saw a 40 percent increase in 2011 in the number of...
View ArticleFIFA’s Blatter “powerless” to sanction Havelange on bribes
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The president of the International Football Federation (FIFA), Sepp Blatter said Thursday 12 July it was not in his power to sanction honorary president and...
View ArticleSomalia MPs to elect new president amid bribery concerns
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Somali members of parliament are expected Monday 10 September to vote for a new president in the first elections of its kind in decades, amid concerns of fraud...
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