Shorouk Express Yermak’s ouster came after Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies revealed that people close to Zelenskyy were involved in a plot to skim around $100 million from Ukraine’s energy sector. No charges have been brought yet against Yermak, a long-time Zelenskyy confidant who was seen as the second-most powerful man in the Ukrainian government. The former…
Shorouk Express Spain’s top criminal court on Monday opened a trial on corruption charges against ailing Catalan nationalist figurehead Jordi Pujol, a titan of Spanish politics following dictator General Francisco Franco’s death. The trial of Pujol, 95, and his seven children for alleged criminal association and money laundering centres on the origin of the fortune…
Shorouk Express “The next step is now we are positioning the court to annul the decision and to prompt the President of the Parliament to put it up to a vote in the [plenary],” ESN’s Anderson told POLITICO. Inquiry committees are convened to look into allegations of wrongdoing by the EU’s institutions, including the powerful European…
Shorouk Express Facing an international outcry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy reversed course on his controversial decision to assert political control over the anti-corruption agencies and restored the independence of two corruption-fighting bodies in July. But the damage to Ukraine’s image as an A+ candidate for EU membership had already been done in the eyes of…
Shorouk Express Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Thursday testily denied alleged Socialist corruption before a rowdy Senate committee investigating a scandal that has rocked his government, calling the probe “a circus” and “a witch hunt”. Corruption investigations targeting former Socialist heavyweights and Sánchez’s relatives have embarrassed a leader who took office in 2018 pledging…
Shorouk Express Faced with ongoing allegations against his government and inner-circle, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pledged to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) to combat corruption in Spain. The Spanish government is to use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and cut out corruption, part of wider reforms to restore confidence in Spanish public life and combat…
Shorouk Express Spain’s justice minister said Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s wife Begoña Gómez broke no rules in hiring an assistant as he testified on Wednesday in a corruption investigation against her, legal sources said. The year-long saga is one of several graft probes involving Sánchez’s family and allies that have embarrassed his leftist government, although…
Shorouk Express A lobbyist, a senior executive and a procurement manager with Huawei were among the suspects in the corruption probe who first faced Belgian judges last week as part of procedural hearings. The officials were preliminarily charged with corruption, participation in a criminal organization and money laundering. They are presumed innocent. It is unclear…
Shorouk Express BRUSSELS ― The Belgian prosecutor has charged eight people with active corruption, money laundering and criminal organization in an investigation into Huawei’s lobbying activities in Europe, it said in a statement on Friday. The decision comes three weeks after police raids in Belgium and Portugal, as part of a probe into suspected illegal…
Shorouk Express The spot also features the premier’s wife, Begoña Gómez, former transport minister José Luis Ábalos and other figures with links to Sánchez’s Socialist party who are facing graft allegations. All appear in swimwear on an idyllic beach in the video, which the right-wing PP has now removed from its account on social media…
