Belgian police conducted more raids at European Parliament offices on Dec. 12 as the legislature’s President pledged to launch an internal investigation into corruption allegations and the bloc’s top official called for the creation of an EU-wide independent ethics body. Prosecutors investigating alleged influence peddling by a Gulf country at the European Parliament charged four … Read more
CNN — Eva Kaili, one of the European Parliament’s vice presidents, has been expelled by her political party in Greece amid a corruption probe. The Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), one of Greece’s main opposition parties, said in a statement Friday: “Following the latest developments and the investigation by Belgian authorities into corruption of European officials, … Read more
Ahead of the 2023 Karnataka Assembly elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is working on a multi-pronged approach, with a specific focus on wooing the many communities of the State. BJP strategists describe this as “social engineering” combined with the “promise of development”. They know that retaining power is not easy. In the political … Read more
Kerala’s Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau (VACB) has adopted a strategy that would help flush out the role of middlemen in corruption. Talking to media on the sidelines of the valedictory function of the vigilance awareness week held here on Saturday, Manoj Abraham, Director of VACB, said agents created an additional link in corruption. Also read: … Read more
The BJP’s stock response to the Congress’s charges is to make counter-charges The BJP’s stock response to the Congress’s charges is to make counter-charges Congress’s ‘PayCM’ campaign was a big talking point in Karnataka last month, with posters of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai’s image superimposed on what resembled a QR code of PayTM pasted on … Read more
A special CBI court has sentenced Sanjeev Kumar, a 1985-batch Haryana cadre IAS officer, to four and a half years of simple imprisonment for ‘amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income’, 16 years after he was booked by the Central Bureau of Investigation on corruption charges. The special CBI judge had last month … Read more
NEW DELHI: Seven officers of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) were arrested in the last three years, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said, “As per information received from 27 state governments/Union Territories, 7 officers belonging to Indian … Read more
Corruption is a social fact, as it is difficult to find a society free of corruption. The latest ‘Global Corruption Barometer’ report of Transparency International (TI) for Asia has portrayed India as a country with the highest bribery rate in Asia. To have a balanced perspective, we need to view the report against the backdrop … Read more
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Monday announced that the property details of all elected people’s representatives of the ruling BJD including him, besides government officials at all levels will be put in the public domain for scrutiny. Noting that corruption is the biggest hurdle to development, Patnaik, while addressing the BJD’s state council … Read more
Two days after the shooting incident in Uttar Pradesh’s Ballia where BJP worker Dhirendra Pratap Singh gunned down a local during a commotion over the allotment of ration shops, the BJP leader has now come out with a video claiming that he did not fire at anyone. Instead, the BJP member has accused the police … Read more