The American project Kleptocracy Initiative has launched the website kleptocracyarchive.org, where documents showing corruption in kleptocratic regimes are publicly available. “Now the largest dossier has been collected on Russia and Ukraine. The personal page of Russian President Vladimir Putin contains 800 documents that can be viewed by anyone who...
The enormous Panamanian leak, which eclipsed in its volume all previous leaks of classified information, reminded of one useful rule. “If you have a law firm with highly sensitive financial information about the most powerful people in the world,” Fortune magazine wrote about the 11,5 leak...
The Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense will send The New York Times an explanation for the article “Invincible Corruption in Ukraine” published in the newspaper and will demand a refutation of certain theses of the editorial material. “This is a respected publication. And someone gave them information that...
Vladimir Yakunin, who led Russian Railways for a decade, could be involved in offshore schemes. This conclusion was reached by the authors of an investigation conducted by journalists from Novaya Gazeta and the Center for the Study of Corruption and Organized Crime (OCCRP) based on the so-called “Panama Papers”. As before...
The daughters of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev own a 56% stake in a company that owns six billion-dollar gold mines, according to an investigation by the Organized Crime and Corruption Research Center (OCCRP). As ForumDaily previously wrote, the OCCRP investigation is based ...
The head of the Anti-Corruption Fund, Alexei Navalny, appealed to the Tverskoy Court with an administrative statement of claim, where the defendant is Russian President Vladimir Putin. In a message published on Navalny's website, it is said that the president violated the law "On Combating Corruption," Navalny writes that he is asking the court to "force ...
“This is an absolutely unacceptable statement from the point of view of international relations practice, unfounded,” Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the Russian president, told reporters. "It's so obvious that it's hard to analyze." “It’s impossible for us to imagine,” he continued. - If I allowed ...
The fugitive ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych, as of January 13, 2016, leads the ranking of the most corrupt individuals in the world according to Transparency International as part of the Unmask the corrupt campaign. In two months of voting on unmaskthecorrupt.org on the most egregious cases ...
The head of the Odessa administration, Mikhail Saakashvili, publicly dismissed his adviser Vladimir Reznik and asked law enforcement agencies to investigate his actions. In particular, Saakashvili invited the heads of the Department of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office to a meeting of the leadership of the Odessa administration, where he publicly dismissed Reznik and asked the law enforcement agencies ...
Russian businessman Vadim Mikerin was sentenced to four years in prison for bribes used to provide uranium deals to American firms. In addition, the Maryland court ordered Mikerin to pay more than two million dollars in damages. As Forum wrote, four months...