Corruption

The privatisation of Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) has been sold as a big reform to end decades of losses, but its structur is opaque and highlights  institutionalised corruption. Rather than resolving structural weaknesses, the…

In what is arguably one of the most forthright assessments in recent years, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), with the participation of the World Bank, has released its Governance and Corruption Diagnostic (GCD) report on Pakistan. The…

Sri Lanka’s new government, led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, will launch a fresh investigation into the handling of the MV X-Press Pearl cargo ship disaster that devastated marine life along swaths of the island nation’s coastline…

Lebanon’s controversial former central bank governor was detained Tuesday after being questioned in several corruption cases, according to three judicial officials. Salameh served a 30-year term as central bank governor beginning in…

The Puttalam Quazi Court Judge has been arrested by Bribery Commission officers while allegedly soliciting a bribe of Rs. 5,000. He has been remanded until 06 May after being produced before the Puttalam Magistrate’s Court, the…

A Pakistani court on Wednesday sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife to 14 years in prison for corruption, a day after another special court convicted Khan for leaking state secrets and gave him a 10-year prison sentence.…

Justice W. M. N. P Iddawala has been appointed as the new Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC). Meanwhile, Chethiya Goonesekera and K. Bernard Rajapakse have been appointed as other…