A court in Bangladesh on Sunday awarded conditional bail to a journalist known for her strong reporting on official corruption amid protests at home and abroad calling for her release. Rozina Islam, a senior reporter for the leading Prothom Alo newspaper, has been held in detention since her arrest on Monday. Her lawyer, Ehsanul Haque […]
Posts Tagged ‘graft’
Netanyahu lawyers say he was never questioned on many accusations in graft cases
Lawyers for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu filed a lengthy official response Monday to the charge sheet against the premier, complaining that the corruption indictment includes “made-up” charges and refers to actions about which he was never questioned. In a document spanning 81 pages and 667 paragraphs filed to the Jerusalem District Court, the defense team […]
Netanyahu’s 2nd Court Appearance In Graft Trial Set For February 8
A much-anticipated court hearing in the corruption trial of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which he and the other defendants are required to attend, is set to take place on February 8, the Jerusalem District Court announced Monday. The development came after the court said Friday that the hearing, originally set for the coming Wednesday, would be […]
30 arrested in massive tax graft said to involve hundreds of millions of shekels
Thirty people were arrested Monday as police revealed they had cracked an allegedly massive graft plot involving hundreds of millions of shekels in tax evasion and money laundering. The scam involved the fraudulent takeover of hundreds of companies in the fuel sector that were then used to issue fake financial paperwork to “outwit” the country’s […]
Philippines’ Duterte rejects ‘lousy’ probe, accuses anti-graft body of corruption
Last week the office of the Ombudsman confirmed it was investigating Duterte’s financial dealings prior to his election as president in May last year. “I will not submit jurisdiction to the ombudsman because it’s a lousy thing,” Duterte said in an expletive-laden speech in Davao City, according to Philippines news outlet Philstar. Eating Islamist livers […]
Anonymous claim Twitter is shutting down their accounts for harassing ISIS
An Anonymous hacker made the claims after Twitter said it suspended 125,000 accounts for “threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS” since mid-2015. “You do realize if we all stopped reporting terrorist accounts and graphic images, Twitter would be flooded with terrorists,” WauchulaGhost, an anti-terrorist hacker with Anonymous told The Epoch Times. Hackers […]
Indian PM Modi rushes in land grab
World Bulletin / News Desk Prime Minister Narendra Modi is determined to move more than 100,000 people living near coalfields in eastern India to new homes, making it easier to douse underground fires that have burned for a century and mine huge reserves of premium coal. Reviving output from India‘s nationalised coal sector has been one […]