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Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Showing posts with label corruption. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

To combat corruption, India Supreme Court strikes down dark money system, cites U.S. precedents

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Late last week, the Supreme Court of India struck a blow for transparency and accountability when it ruled unconstitutional a system of ano...
Friday, November 3, 2023

Court quashes $19m side deal in casino creation

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Encore Boston Harbor, shiny and new in 2018. Photo by Pi.1415926535 via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 A $19m side deal in a major casino r...
Wednesday, November 23, 2022

Anti-corruption law violates business-owner privacy, EU court holds with myopic appraisal of transparency

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A key European Union transparency law that allows watchdogs to trace corporate ownership to combat corruption has been struck down by the E...
Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Qatar World Cup opens Sunday; meanwhile, Netflix series stokes embers of FIFA corruption scandal

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I visited CONMEBOL HQ in Asunción, Paraguay, in October. The South American angle on the FIFA corruption scandal was engagingly fictionaliz...
Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Kenyan presidential election has Nairobi on edge

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UPDATE, Aug. 19: William Ruto won the Kenya presidential election.  Read more at NPR, Aug. 15. Kenya will vote for a new president next mont...
Friday, January 14, 2022

RIP Andrew Jennings, legendary investigative sport reporter who exposed corruption in FIFA, IOC

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Andrew Jennings testifies in a Brazilian legislative probe  of the national football federation ( photo by Waldemir Barreto/Agência Senado ...
Friday, February 21, 2020

Gambia AG initiates truth inquiry to get country on track

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A Gambian customs office shades goats near the southern border with Senegal. All images: RJ Peltz-Steele CC BY-SA 4.0 . The TRRC pro...
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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Money in soccer, money in higher ed: Lazio will never be Juventus; will the UMasses ever be ‘UMass’?

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This morning I was reminded of this observation about football (soccer) from The Blizzard (#25, June 2017) , spoken by Swedish football mana...