Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog charged three individuals, including two care home operators, for allegedly defrauding an elderly care voucher scheme of HK$1.3 million by inflating service hours.
Telstra, powering 25m mobile services, experienced a major outage blamed on a time-keeping server issue. The Australian government dismissed foreign interference speculation and launched an investigation. Services have largely returned to normal.
Beijing has revealed three cases where local governments manipulated revenue data, misused government bonds, and hid debt to inflate their performance records. These cases, highlighted by the CCDI, involve actions in Guangxi, Gansu, and Zhejiang provinces, targeting the 'correct view of political performance'.
Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog has charged Lau Mun-cheung, former head of the Chinese University Medical Centre's Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Centre, with fraud. He is accused of falsely claiming to have provided services to patients to obtain fees from the university.
Hungary's anti-corruption watchdog, the HIA, has called for an investigation into senior officials in Viktor Orban's inner circle over allegations of missing EU funds totaling €3.5 billion. The HIA believes that inflated pricing on government contracts awarded to communications companies may be the source of the missing money, potentially damaging Orban's legacy.
Hungary's anti-corruption watchdog, the HIA, has called for an investigation into senior officials in Viktor Orban's inner circle over potentially inflated government contracts totaling €3.5 billion in missing EU funds. The allegations center on communications companies awarded €10 billion in contracts over four years, with the HIA suspecting a third of that amount may be due to overpricing and a risk of corruption. The watchdog is particularly interested in the Lounge group tied to Gyula Balasy, whose companies saw a dramatic rise in state contracts during Orban's tenure. The new prime minister, Peter Magyar, has pledged to tackle corruption and reacquire stolen state assets.
Following a deadly mining accident that killed 82 miners in Qinyuan county, China has launched a month-long nationwide workplace safety inspection. An official from the provincial emergency management department is under investigation for "serious violations of discipline and law."
Zhao Yongjin, party secretary of Qinyuan county in Changzhi, is under investigation for suspected serious violations of discipline and law. An anti-corruption watchdog revealed preliminary findings of severe safety problems and systemic failures at a mine site, with past issues including poor management and illegal activities.
An official in China's Shanxi province is under investigation for corruption following a deadly coal mine blast. The explosion at Liushenyu Coal Mine on May 22 killed multiple miners and exposed severe safety fraud and mismanagement.
Hong Kong's anti-corruption watchdog has charged Wen Congmei, 62, with allegedly bribing a Legal Aid Department clerk with HK$10,000 to secure custody of her grandson. She faces one count of offering an advantage to a public servant and will appear in court Friday.
On his last morning in charge of Malaysia’s anti-corruption watchdog, Azam Baki did what he had always done – talked tough and walked away on his own terms. But the man who spent the past six years making the country’s powerful sweat left behind a question he never satisfactorily answered: what do you do when the anti-corruption chief becomes the story? Analysts say Azam’s exit puts Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who stood by him throughout, in a difficult position ahead of the next general...
The Communist Party chief of Hefei – a growing tech hub and capital of China’s central Anhui province – has been placed under investigation, the country’s top corruption watchdog announced on Wednesday. Fei Gaoyun, once widely recognised as a rising star in the “seventh-generation” of future national leaders, is the latest senior official to be snared in President Xi Jinping’s long-running anti-corruption campaign. The 54-year-old’s career trajectory was typical of China’s emerging generation of...
Hong Kong’s anti-corruption watchdog has arrested seven people linked to a syndicate that allegedly targeted large maintenance projects with undisclosed conflicts of interest and a contractor who served in a dual role as consultant. The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) on Tuesday said it had arrested five men and two women, aged 37 to 75, last week, including the chairman of an incorporated owners committee, the owner of a project contractor, and the directors of a project...
ICAC has charged police superintendent Leung Ka-man, 52, with accepting a HK$1 million bribe from a businessman, disclosing internal information and arranging for his younger brother to act as a scapegoat in speeding cases. His girlfriend Lau Wai-yin, 42, and younger brother Leung Ka-hing, 50, face related charges. The trio were released on bail and are due to appear at West Kowloon Court.
