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Sydney Morning Herald
Customs reforms to 'rip out' corruption
Sydney Morning Herald
THE AUSTRALIAN Customs and Border Protection Service needs ''massive reforms'' to confront corruption and organised crime, according to the Home Affairs Minister, Jason Clare, who has also vowed that officials involved in graft will be ripped ''out by ...
Customs corruption-fighters meet AFP bossNinemsn

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Corruption feeds on Zimbabwe's poor
IRINnews.org
The 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index, by Transparency International, ranks Zimbabwe at 163 out of 174 countries surveyed - with number 174, Somalia, perceived as the most corrupt. Zimbabwe's position on the index has fallen from 154 in 2011.

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Customs corruption-fighters meet AFP boss
Ninemsn
The board was set up in December after two Customs officers, a quarantine officer and five members of the public were charged following a joint investigation by law enforcement agencies into corruption and drug smuggling at Sydney airport. The board's ...

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Former Camden officer gets 46 months in corruption probe
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jason Stetser, 34, was the last of four defendants to learn his fate in a case that has resulted in payouts totaling more than $3.8 million to some of those arrested by the corrupt officers. Stetser's attorney, Frederick W. Klepp, asked U.S. District ...
Former Camden officer sentenced to 46 months in corruption probeCherry Hill Courier Post

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Livemint
Ashis Nandy's corruption theory is a load of bull
Firstpost
Here's the real reason why sociologist Ashis Nandy should be in the dock of public criticism. There is almost no evidence whatsoever to substantiate his observation that the backward classes and Dalits are seen as more corrupt because they are less ...
Casting corruptionHindu Business Line
Supreme Court bars Ashis Nandy's arrest, but warns himHindustan Times
Grateful to Supreme Court: Ashis Nandyindiablooms

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BBC News
Lokpal anti-corruption bill: India cabinet clears changes
BBC News
India's cabinet has approved some key changes to the controversial anti-corruption Lokpal bill suggested by a committee of MPs from the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament. The house will discuss the bill when the parliament meets later this month.
Present Lokpal Bill will not check corruption, Arvind Kejriwal saysTimes of India
Kiran Bedi backs amended Lokpal Bill draft, says most concerns metHindustan Times
Betrayal over LokpalDaily Pioneer
IBTimes India -The Asian Age
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Municipal workers eager to blow whistle on corruption
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — Before their special force to fight corruption at city hall has even taken off, Montreal police have received calls from municipal employees ratting out their colleagues. In a brief interview Thursday offered to The Gazette by the police ...

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Daily Maverick
Corruption Watch turns one and prepares for school
Daily Maverick
There was no birthday cake and no champagne as Corruption Watch briefed media on its first birthday on Thursday. Director David Lewis is hopeful that in its second year, Corruption Watch can shift the tides by engaging the public and taking more cases ...
Local government most corrupt, says watchdogIndependent Online
Teachers, parents 'play a part in graft'Post (subscription)

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Sky News Australia
Eddie Obeid's son faces further grilling in corruption inquiry
Yahoo!7 News
The son of former New South Wales Labor minister Eddie Obeid is back in the witness box at an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry into his family's coal mining interests. A large crowd, which has been eagerly awaiting the start of ...
Eddie Obeid to take the stand at corruption trialABC Online
Moses Obeid's mystery $1.5m debtBigPond News

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Spain corruption scandal turns up heat on PM Rajoy
Reuters
"The People's Party only has one set of accounts and it is clean, transparent and submitted to the official accounting authority," PP Secretary General Maria Dolores de Cospedal told a news conference, denying allegations of corruption in El Pais. "We ...

WDIV Detroit
Prosecution rests in Kilpatrick corruption trial
WDIV Detroit
Local 4 is inside the courtroom for the federal corruption trial of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick's dad Bernard Kilpatrick and his childhood friend Bobby Ferguson. Each day we bring you information from inside federal court as it ...
Blog replay: 64th day of Kwame Kilpatrick public corruption trialDetroit Free Press
Government rests case, defense calls first witness in Kilpatrick corruption trialWXYZ
Prosecution Rests in Kwame Kilpatrick Corruption TrialAtlanta Black Star
UPI.com -Minneapolis Star Tribune
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MiamiHerald.com
Zhu Ruifeng, journalist who revealed corruption in Chongqing, worries China ...
MiamiHerald.com
BEIJING -- After Chinese state media announced last week that a sex video released by online journalist and activist Zhu Ruifeng had led to the ouster of 10 officials for corruption, Zhu should have been a shining star of the Chinese Communist Party's ...
Luxury Home Sell-Off During China's Corruption CrackdownNew Tang Dynasty Television

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Telegraph.co.uk
Spain's ruling party leaders face corruption allegations
Los Angeles Times
MADRID -- Corruption allegations swirling around Spain's ruling party threatened to ensnare the prime minister for the first time Thursday when a newspaper published photos and excerpts of secret accounting ledgers that purportedly reveal under-the ...
Spain corruption scandal turns up heat on PM RajoyReuters
Rajoy drawn into corruption scandalFinancial Times
Spanish PM faces corruption scandal over 'secret party slush fund'Telegraph.co.uk
PRI's The World -euronews -CNN International
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Bell corruption trial: Second witness takes the stand
Los Angeles Times
Bell's former director of administrative services -- one of the former employees raking in a high salary -- will take the stand Thursday in the trial of six former council members accused in the corruption trial. Lourdes Garcia earned $422,000 a year ...

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ITV News
Struggling Spain looks to tackle corruption
Deutsche Welle
"We've been waiting for months for an answer from the government about what it's doing about the shadow economy, misappropriation of public funds and corruption," said Victoria Anderica from Access info Europe, an organization that campaigns for more ...
Recession and corruption are haunting SpainITV News
Anger mounts over corruption in recession-hit SpainThe Bostwana Gazette

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Wall Street Journal (blog)
India Cabinet Clears Changes to Anti-Corruption Bill
Wall Street Journal (blog)
India's federal cabinet on Thursday approved changes to a proposed anti-corruption law that aims to create an ombudsman and fast-track graft investigations in an effort to crack down on rampant corruption in the country's bureaucracy, a minister said.

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Cebu Daily News
PH hosts 5th int'l conference vs corruption
Cebu Daily News
BACKCHANNELS Delegates to the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (Gopac) exchange pleasantries with President Aquino during the opening of conference held at the Philippine International Convention Center in Manila on ...
'Phl still vulnerable to corruption'Philippine Star
Aquino warns unabated corruption breeds 'corrupt' leadersInquirer.net
Fight against corruption to continue: Aquinogulfnews.com
Gulf Today -Manila Standard Today -Sun.Star
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AsiaOne
Indon party chief arrested over corruption
NEWS.com.au
The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairman Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq allegedly accepted a sum of one billion rupiah ($A98,000) from meat importer PT Indoguna Utama to secure a government contract.
Indonesian Islamic party head arrested for graftBeaumont Enterprise

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AFP
Indon party chief arrested over corruption
The Australian
INDONESIA'S anti-graft agency has arrested the head of the country's largest Islamic-based party, which is part of the coalition government, on suspicion of corruption, its spokesman says. The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) said Prosperous ...
Indonesian Islamic party head arrested for graftBeaumont Enterprise

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Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
Report: FBI investigation possible Menendez corruption
Philadelphia Inquirer (blog)
The tipster, going by the name Peter Williams – possibly after Harrison “Pete” Williams, a former New Jersey Senator who resigned in a corruption scandal in 1982 -- appears to have been in contact with the FBI for five months, but as of late December ...
Feds targeting Medicare fraud, political corruption in probes of eye doctor ...MiamiHerald.com

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