Posts Tagged ‘ graft ’

Analysis: Philippine graft fight carries risk as Arroyo case 

November 25, 2011
Analysis: Philippine graft fight carries risk as Arroyo case 

A protester holds an image of former president Gloria Arroyo during a protest in front of the Supreme Court in Manila on November 22, 2011. The arrest of former Philippine leader Gloria Macapagal Arroyo for vote rigging has put President Benigno Aquino’s campaign to tackle corruption where he wants it, in the headlines as he [...]

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Analysts evaluate government changes 

July 31, 2011
Analysts evaluate government changes 

  Anti-corruption advocates and international experts hope a new president and National Assembly will get tough on graft and economic problems A boy walks with water buffaloes in Lao Cai Province’s Sapa District in northwest Vietnam. Anti-corruption advocates and international analysts hope that Vietnam’s new leadership will get tough on graft and economic problems. Le [...]

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Security minister says officials dodge graft punishment easily

November 6, 2009

Officials under investigation for graft and corruption are evading penalties all too easily, the minister of Public Security told a National Assembly meeting on Thursday. Minister Le Hong Anh said many people under corruption investigations are state officials “who have the positions and knowledge to deal with investigative agencies.”Anh said evidence of graft was hard [...]

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Indonesian police arrest 2 anti-graft body deputies

November 1, 2009

Two suspended deputies of Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission were arrested Thursday in a graft case that has complicated President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s drive for clean governance. Police named Chandra Hamzah and Bibit Rianto as suspects last month for allegedly abusing their power to issue travel bans against people being probed for corruption. Yudhoyono suspended them [...]

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Yudhoyono taps temporary replacements for Indonesia graft body

October 6, 2009
Yudhoyono taps temporary replacements for Indonesia graft body

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (R) Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Tuesday will fill three leadership posts at the country’s anti-graft body that were vacated due to criminal probes with former commissioners and a United Nations adviser. A five-man panel tasked with helping Yudhoyono pick the interim replacements nominated Mas Achmad Santosa, a lawyer who [...]

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Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say

July 23, 2009
Rio spy claim case shows SEC probe risk, lawyers say

Office staff work at Rio Tinto Group’s Shanghai office in Shanghai, China China’s detention of Rio Tinto Group executives amid allegations of espionage and bribery should serve as a reminder to foreign companies that they may also risk prosecution by US enforcement agencies, lawyers said. “It’s not just domestic law that may be involved,” said [...]

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Four charged in Kien Giang graft case

December 22, 2008

Police in the Southern province of Kien Giang Saturday pressed charges against four men in a bribery case that saw a vehicle registry official arrested last week. Police said truck owners Phan Dong Tien, Luong Kim Tung and Truong Van Dang and driver Nguyen Van Tan had given bribes worth VND29.5 million (US$1,726) to Le [...]

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Residents urge speedy resolution of PCI graft case, overpass scam

December 19, 2008

District 11 residents have asked members of the Ho Chi Minh City legislature to ensure that the city government expedites investigations into bribery allegations in the East-West Highway project. In a meeting with local lawmakers Thursday, they also demanded action on the overhauling of the Van Thanh 2 overpass.City authorities have to clarify details of [...]

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Top prosecution agency pledges cooperation in Japanese graft case

December 12, 2008

Vietnamese prosecutors will fully cooperate with their Japanese counterpart in investigating bribery allegations in the East-West Highway project, an official has said. The Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security on Tuesday announced a wide-ranging criminal investigation into allegations that Japanese businessmen of the Pacific Consultants International (PCI) firm had bribed a local official working on the [...]

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HCMC transport official suspended over Japanese graft allegations

November 20, 2008
HCMC transport official suspended over Japanese graft allegations

Huynh Ngoc Si of the Ho Chi Minh City Transport Department has been suspended for allegedly accepting bribes from Japanese businessmen The Ho Chi Minh City Communist Party Unit Wednesday suspended Huynh Ngoc Si, deputy director of the HCMC Department of Transport, who has been named in a Japanese court case as the receiver of [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...