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Federal NDP leader speaks to police 'to help' with Quebec corruption probe
StarPhoenix
MONTREAL - The leader of Canada's official Opposition has spoken to police about the corruption scandals swirling around Laval, Que. NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he spoke to investigators in 2011 about a meeting 17 years earlier with the then-mayor, ...
NDP leader Mulcair aided Quebec corruption probeSun News Network
Ex-Mayor among 37 held in anti-corruption swoop in CanadaLegalbrief (subscription)
Scrutiny shifts to Laval police in corruption inquiryJournal of Commerce
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Officials try to rein in corruption without undertaking political reform
The Economist
Xinhua, the state news agency, reported on 12th May that the official, Liu Tienan, was being investigated for “suspected serious violations of discipline,” an official euphemism for corruption. Mr Liu was deputy chairman of the National Development and ...

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Airing Of Dirty Laundry Raises Afghan Hopes That Corruption Will Be Tackled
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
More importantly, says Abdul Satar Saadat, a Kabul-based legal-affairs analyst, the confrontation has made Zakhilwal a hero among ordinary Afghans whose daily lives are hounded by official corruption and raised some hopes that the issue may finally be ...

Senator Mike Lee on the Power and Corruption of the IRS
RedState
On today's edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Senator Mike Lee to discuss the growing scandal at the IRS, its constitutional implications and his efforts to protect your emails from the feds. Then Ben and Brad ...

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Globe and Mail
Montreal mayoral hopeful Denis Coderre casts self as corruption fighter
Globe and Mail
In the biggest name yet to be charged in Quebec's municipal corruption scandals, former Laval mayor Gilles Vaillancourt has been arrested. Mr. Vaillancourt was arrested Thursday morning by UPAC, the special provincial anti-corruption squad, said a ...
Liberal MP Denis Coderre announces he's running for Montreal mayorMontreal Gazette
Liberal MP Denis Coderre running for Montreal mayorCanada.com

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Globe and Mail
Quebec corruption inquiry shifts focus to Laval
globalnews.ca
MONTREAL – The Quebec corruption inquiry has shifted its focus to Laval, the municipality across the river from Montreal. Laval's longtime mayor, Gilles Vaillancourt, was among several dozen people recently arrested. The charges laid again him included ...
Charbonneau: Laval deputy manager exposes deep corruptionCTV News
Quebec corruption probe queries credibility of key witnessGlobe and Mail
Quebec Corruption Inquiry Cancels Key Testimony over Witness's CredibilityOye! Times
TheTyee.ca -CBC.ca -Montreal Gazette
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ESPNcricinfo.com
Corruption in cricket A familiar failing
ESPNcricinfo.com
Salman Butt, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir are found guilty, at Southwark Crown Court in London, of conspiracy to cheat and conspiracy to accept corrupt payments over deliberate no-balls bowled during the Lord's Test between Pakistan and ...

Revolutions, corruption and intrigue in Central Asia's "Restless Valley"
Quartz
Over a five-year period in the 2000s, Central Asia's Fergana Valley saw two revolutions, the bloodiest government-ordered crackdown on protestors since China's Tiananmen Square, and a wave of authoritarian abuses. The time was laced with geopolitical ...

Newsday
NY corruption: FBI raids Ramapo Town Hall, seizes documents, hard drives
Newsday
About 40 federal agents raided Ramapo Town Hall Wednesday afternoon, seizing documents and hard drives while they executed a search warrant for financial documents related to yet another corruption probe affecting a Rockland County community, ...
FBI raid Ramapo Town Hall amid corruption sting7Online.com

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IBTimes.co.uk
India Test Cricket Star Sreesanth Star in Corruption Scandal at Rajasthan Royals
IBTimes.co.uk
The trio were due in court on corruption charges in Delhi today (Thursday) after being arrested on Wednesday. Also arrested were seven bookmakers in Mumbai and three others in Delhi. Cricket's ruling body in India said it was "shocked and saddened" by ...
Sreesanth, Chandila, Chavan detained by police; suspended by BCCIESPNcricinfo.com
UPDATE 2-Cricket-Sreesanth in Indian trio arrested for spot-fixingReuters India
Sreesanth detained by police, suspended by BCCICricket365.com
Mid-Day -Wall Street Journal (blog) -Daily News & Analysis
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Play the Game
Sports federations targeted under Swiss anti-corruption plan
ABS CBN News
ZURICH - The Swiss cabinet proposed tightening anti-corruption laws on Wednesday, pointing to the international sporting federations based in the country as targets of the suggested changes. "Switzerland is among the countries least affected by ...
Swiss anti-corruption plan aimed at sports organisationsPlay the Game

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PF has not done enough in the fight against corruption- Rev Banda
Lusaka Times
A clergyman has observed that the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) has not done enough in the fight against corruption. Reverend Alfred Banda of Jesus Family Church says since the PF came into power, little has been done to curb corruption especially among ...

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New Vision
Kadaga wants anti-corruption campaign in schools...
New Vision
In a speech read at the launch of a book titled 'Corruption antidote; breaking the walls of corruption in Uganda” at Nakasero primary school Kampala on Tuesday, Kadaga pointed out that Uganda has suffered repercussions of this vice for long time, the ...

Oneindia
'Advani compromised with corruption when it required'
Oneindia
A party leader and close aide of Karnataka Janata Paksha chief B S Yeddyurappa, the former chief minister of the state, Lehar Singh Siroya, has alleged on an open letter that senior leader L K Advani had compromised on the question of corruption in the ...
LK Advani compromised on corruption, says a Karnataka BJP leader - IBNLiveIBNLive
Karnataka MLC accuses Advani on being silent on corruption earlierTimes of India

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IBNLive
Timeline: When corruption brought cricket into disrepute - IBNLive
IBNLive
Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and fast bowler Mohammad Asif, who lost their appeal at the Court of Abritration for Sport against spot-fixing bans, were the first players with team-mate Mohammad Amir to be punished by the International Cricket ...

Sowetan
Airport official fined for corruption
Sowetan
Sonnenberg said the South African penal system did not recognise the principle of an eye for an eye, but corruption was endemic and had to be punished appropriately. She said the incident had happened on the spur of the moment, as opposed to having ...

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Swiss anti-corruption plan aimed at sports organisations
Play the Game
Switzerland, home of more than 30 international sports organisations, is looking to introduce a law that will make corruption and bribery in private companies and organisations a penalty. Yesterday the Swiss cabinet held a public consultation on the ...

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For over 7 months, anti-corruption panel fails to meet in MP
Oneindia
Bhopal, May 15: Even as corruption cases continue to surface in Madhya Pradesh, a high-level committee set up to ensure speedy conclusion of graft cases against government employees has not met for a single day for over past seven months.

Police identify more corruption linked to bikies
ABC Online
A Victorian parliamentary committee has been told police have identified about 10 cases of suspected police corruption through links to bikies. Three police officers have been suspended as a result of an investigation into leaks to an outlaw motorcycle ...
Ten Vic cases of bikie police corruptionYahoo!7 News
People still at risk from Vic police leaks - NinemsnNinemsn

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Ten Vic cases of bikie police corruption
The Australian
VICTORIA Police is aware of around 10 cases of police corruption involving links with bikie gangs, the state's police chief says. "We were aware of about 10 incidents where our members had been either compromised or influenced by organised motorcycle ...

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