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The image and credibility of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission has been seriously affected by the second death in less than two years of persons being investigated by it. The truth has to be uncovered and made public to avoid the national anti-graft agency from becoming a farce. THE SECOND death in less than two years of persons being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) could tarnish the image of the national anti-graft agency.
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MANAMA, Bahrain, Aug. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bahrain's Prime Minister called for new measures to combat economic crime in an effort to fight corruption. His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa noted in a work meeting that the establishment of an anti-corruption agency would be vital to ensuring a just economic system. Interior Ministry powers need to be expanded to strengthen internal and external operations of the government and implement what has been agreed upon at the National Dialogue," the Prime Minister said. Bolstering anti-corruption measures is one of many areas of National Dialogue reforms that the government will be implementing.
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The six projects at the heart of an investigation into connections between Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon and local developer Ronald H. Lipscomb represent at least $562 million in investment, with at least $66 million of that coming in the form of public subsidies, according to an investigation conducted by The Daily Record. City Solicitor George A. Nilson acknowledged Friday that several city agencies, including the Board of Estimates, the City Council, the Board of Finance, the city's Department of Housing and Community Development and the Baltimore Development Corp. had received a second round of subpoenas from the Office of the State Prosecutor, an anti-corruption agency, seeking documents in connection to at least four of the projects.
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THE PRIME MINISTER, DATUK SERI ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, WAS stating the obvious when, on March 5, he said those who were being investigated for corruption did not have to worry if they were innocent. `What is being sought is justice,' he said in direct reference to corruption allegations against Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Mohd Johari Baharum and Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) Director- General Datuk Seri Zulkipli Mat Noor.
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... (Agency No. A094-222-583). Immigratio... one of the articles cites to an anticorruption official's criticisms of the Dominican Republic's ...
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Legal opinions of the Secretariat of the United Nations Privileges and immunities (a) Note Verbale to the Permanent Representative of [State] concerning the privileges and immunities of [a United Nations entity] (b) Interoffice memorandum to the Chief, Special Procedures Branch, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), concerning the request for information on extending immunity from legal process to studies and/or reports prepared for a Special Rapporteur by a group of researchers (c) Note to the President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda concerning the immunity of defence counsel Procedural and institutional issues (a) Interoffice memorandum to the Chief, Treaty and Legal Assistance Branch, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNOD...
...UNIDO and [United Nations agency] 578 (g) Interoffice memo...
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THE DECISION TO RESTRUCTURE THE ANTI-Corruption Agency (ACA) into the Malaysian Commission on Anti-Corruption (MCAC) has received all- round praise. After all, corruption or rather the lack of efforts to address it, has been a key issue in the criticism against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration. He was seen as moving too slow to stamp out the growing menace, which was his promise in the 2004 election.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's anti-corruption agency barred the defense minister and nearly 250 other top officials from leaving the country Thursday as political turmoil deepened following a Supreme Court ruling that struck down a graft amnesty. The court verdict means that up to 8,000 graft and other cases dating back to the 1990s have, or will soon be, reopened. The decision has roiled the country's political elite just as the United States is looking for a solid partner to help it fight against al- Qaida and the Taliban along the Afghan border.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On Sunday, December 18, 2011, Din Mohammad Ramin, 26, was arrested on bribery charges in Kabul. The arrest was carried out by the Afghan National Police and by investigators from the Afghan Attorney General's Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) with the assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development's Office of Inspector General (USAID OIG). Ramin was charged with demanding and receiving a kickback stemming from his work as a procurement officer for USAID's Afghanistan Small and Medium Enterprise Development (ASMED) project. Specifically, Ramin allegedly solicited and received a one-time payment of $3,000, along with a promise to receive an additional $1,500, in exchange for processing a grant to a program beneficiary in...
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...The Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) and the Public Complaints Bureau (PCB)--the ...
