#corruption-investigation

#corruption-investigation

The leader of South Korea's controversial Unification Church attended a court hearing in advance of a decision to possibly issue a warrant for her arrest on corruption charges linked to the former first lady, Kim Keon Hee. During the court proceedings on Monday, Han Hak-ja did not answer questions from reporters regarding allegations of bribery as she was pushed in a wheelchair, entering the Seoul Central District Court.

Hasan Mutlu, mayor of Istanbul's Bayrampasa district, was taken into custody early Saturday on charges including bribery, embezzlement, fraud and bid rigging by the municipality, according to state broadcaster, TRT Haber. The Istanbul police reportedly raided 72 locations, seizing documents and detaining Mutlu and several of his deputies. Mutlu denied the allegations on X, writing: I have served only Bayrampasa and you, my esteemed fellow citizens What has happened consists of political operations and baseless slanders.

The African country filed a case at the International Court of Justice in 2022, alleging France is violating international law by refusing to return assets seized during a corruption investigation into Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue, a vice president of Equatorial Guinea and the son of long-serving President Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mbasogo. Equatorial Guinea asked the court for a series of urgent orders, known as provisional measures, to return the swanky mansion on one of Paris's most prestigious streets, Avenue Foch,

It is going to be a very close election, he said. While the JLP is leaning on their track record of reducing crime and debt and growing the economy, the PNP has pitched itself as a party that will restore trust in leadership to rid the country of corruption and focus on critical public services such as infrastructure, water supply and hospital facilities.

Roman Starovoit, a former transport minister in Russia, was found dead with a gunshot wound near his car hours after being dismissed by President Vladimir Putin.