PARIS: FIFA´s disgraced former vice-president Reynald Temarii of Tahiti has been charged with corruption by French prosecutors probing Qatar´s 2022 World Cup bid process. The charge, the first to emerge from the years-long investigation, is for passive corruption and was confirmed by France´s financial crimes prosecutors (PNF). Temarii is a former president of the Oceania…
LAHORE: Police have taken measures to secure his residence in Lahore, erecting barriers on both sides of the thoroughfare it is located, but former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, who is wanted by the anti-corruption bureau following the dismissal of his bail, has yet to be apprehended. The installation of barriers has caused inconvenience…
Dubai: A high-ranking Kuwaiti government official has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined over $15 million for embezzling large sums of employee salaries, significantly inflating his own government salary in the process. The ruling was made by the Kuwaiti Court of Cassation on Thursday, marking a significant stride in the country’s ongoing…
LONDON: Anti-corruption watchdog, Spotlight on Corruption, has called on the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to make a public statement about its 2019 out-of-court settlement with property tycoon Malik Riaz Hussain, saying that it is concerned the settlement is “now at the heart of political turmoil and allegations of corruption in Pakistan”. “Given the…
PARIS: A French court of appeals will on Wednesday give its verdict in one of several corruption and illegal campaign financing cases involving ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy. The 68-year-old, who served one term from 2007 to 2012, has been embroiled in legal troubles ever since leaving office. In March 2021, he was sentenced to three years…