To hear Western politicians tell it, liberal democracies are in an existential fight against the forces of autocracy, despotism, and dictatorship around the world. That framing has found a home ...
Members of Congress inspired by the “Pandora Papers” corruption revelations are planning to soon unveil a bill designed to make it harder for lawyers, accountants and others to help kleptocrats ...
Here is today’s Foreign Policy brief: the Pandora Papers implicate dozens of world leaders in a web of financial secrecy, Japan announces its new cabinet, and the world this week. ...
“The overwhelming… sentiment of the Filipinos is that I am not qualified and it would be a violation of the constitution to circumvent the law, the spirit of the constitution” ...
The FBI has long viewed obscure private investment funds as dangerous financial pathways for malevolent foreign activities. Nearly a decade ago, the bureau caught Moscow trying to use venture capital ...
Lawyer Antonin Levy accused the National Financial Prosecutor’s (PNF) office of a witch-hunt and said Fillon, who served as premier under Nicolas Sarkozy from 2007-2012, had committed no wrongdoing. The ...
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday raided Detroit city hall and executed search warrants at the homes of two council members in an apparent corruption probe. ...
U.S.-Mexican security cooperation took an unexpected turn when, on Oct. 15, 2020, U.S. police arrested former Mexican Defense Minister Salvador Cienfuegos, a retired Mexican Army four-star general, at the Los ...
The protests have gained momentum since Guatemala’s Attorney General Maria Porras last week removed anti-graft fighter Juan Francisco Sandoval as head of the Special Prosecutor’s Office Against Impunity (FECI), a move ...
Angry, and armed, the militiamen in Michigan were gearing up, getting ready to unleash their fury over an unjust government and zeroing in on a target who they believed upended ...
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