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Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi.  It has been five days since we in Kenya had our elections on August 9th. Five days, and still we do not know who our president is. As the wait continues, so does the pressure. Kenya is in a state of limbo [...]

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An accountability court based in Lahore acquitted Mir Shakilur Rehman, the editor-in-chief of the Jang Media Group, of corruption charges on Monday. Jang Media Group is Pakistan’s largest independent news conglomerate. The company owns popular news stations, such as Geo News, and numerous newspapers, including Jang and The News. Rehman was arrested in 2020 by [...]

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A spokesperson for the US State Department announced on Tuesday that the US would be “temporarily pausing” cooperation with Guatemala’s Public Ministry, the department responsible for criminal prosecution. The pause comes as a response to the decision on July 23 by Consuelo Porras, Guatemala’s Attorney General, to remove Juan Francisco Sandoval as head of the [...]

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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) released former Prime Minister Matata Ponyo Mapon from house arrest on Wednesday after he agreed to cooperate with the investigation about the alleged misappropriation of government funds. According to Mapon’s lawyer, Laurent Onyemba, the house arrest order was lifted late on Wednesday evening. DRC prosecutors issued an arrest warrant for [...]

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The US Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) imposed a series of sanctions on three Bulgarian individuals and sixty-four companies for their extensive role in endemic grand corruption in Bulgaria on 2 June 2021. This is the largest corruption-related targeting to date under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act. The sanctions [...]

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Prosecutors in the trial of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Monday that Netanyahu used favors as “currency.” According to local media, Netanyahu is facing “charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000, and fraud and breach of trust charges in Case 1000 and Case 2000.” He denies all charges and has [...]

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his first court appearance since May on Monday to enter a plea of not guilty to an indictment alleging corruption and misconduct. The case began with a police investigation in 2016, and an indictment was issued in 2019. Netanyahu faces a wide array of corruption charges arising from separate investigations. The charges [...]

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Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro ended the anti-corruption probe “Operation Car Wash” on Wednesday, stating that “there is no more corruption in the government.” Operation Car Wash began six years ago to investigate allegations that executives at Petrobas, a state oil company, accepted bribes from construction firms in exchange for contracts at inflated rates. The Workers’ [...]

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The Bishkek City Court on Friday upheld the Birinchi Mai District Court’s 18-year prison sentence of former Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sapar Isakov for corruption. The Birinchi Mai District Court in Bishkek convicted Isakov last month of misusing funds allocated to the renovation of the State History Museum and the hippodrome in Cholpon-Ata.  According to a [...]

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