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While the 2016 presidential race was raging in America, Ukrainian prosecutors ran into some unexpectedly strong headwinds as they pursued an investigation into the activities of a nonprofit in their homeland known as the Anti-Corruption Action Centre (AntAC). The focus on AntAC — whose youthful street activists famously wore “Ukraine F*&k Corruption” T-shirts — was part of a larger probe by Ukraine’s Prosecutor General’s Office into whether $4.4 million in U.S. funds to fight corruption inside the former Soviet republic had been improperly diverted. The prosecutors soon would learn the resistance they faced was blowing directly from the U.S. Embassy...

My goodness. It was passed when Joe Biden was a member of the U.S. Senate and then signed by then-President Bill Clinton. A comprehensive treaty agreement that allows cooperation between both the United States and Ukraine in the investigation and prosecution of crimes.

The First 100 Days – An Anti-Corruption Agenda JW Asks to Court to Allow Public to See Videos of Depositions in the Clinton Email Case Obama Family’s 2015 Hawaii Vacation Cost Taxpayers $4,823,206.88 Judicial Watch Work Applauded The First 100 Days – An Anti-Corruption Agenda At our special educational forum on December 6, expert panelists offered specific recommendations to the incoming Trump administration and the new Congress for rolling back corruption and ushering in a new era of transparency in these areas: Freedom of Information Act reform, election fraud, pay-for-play politics, IRS targeting, immigration and border enforcement, executive order overreach,...

The Mexican government's pledge to tackle graft suffered a setback on Friday when Congress entered its summer recess having failed to pass anti-corruption legislation that has been stuck in political limbo for months. Harried by accusations of corruption, President Enrique Pena Nieto's government last May passed a reform to tighten oversight of public officials, and create a special anti-graft prosecutor. Those changes were dependent on secondary legislation meant to pass in a year, yet by the end of April, his centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had only submitted proposals for five of the seven laws the package comprises. The opposition...

The European Commission said yesterday (3 February) that its first anti-corruption handbook for the 28 member states showed that there were “no corruption-free zones”, but officials declined to name and shame individual countries. The Commission published yesterday (3 February) its much awaited 40-page anti-corruption report covering the overall situation in the 28-country bloc, coupled with individual chapters on each country, of approximately a dozen pages each. The package is supplemented by a 230-page special Eurobarometer survey on corruption. The EU executive said that its rather modest ambition was to launch a debate on the corruption and identify ways in which...

The popular hard hitting I Love South Africa but Hate my Government blog at: iluvsa.blogspot.com was pulled by Google in another Google act of censorship. The blog took a critical look at the policies of the government as well as publicizing the escalating genocide against White & minority farmers as publicly noted by the President of Genocide Watch Gregory Stanton. It also occasionally took a look at the valid distinction of Boer identity from the bulk of the non-Boer descended [ Cape Dutch ] Afrikaners & their long struggle for independence & self determination. The blog was opposed to violence...

Outside of the Legislature itself, no government body has done more to damage the Golden State than the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. Its successful push in 1999 to change state law to allow public employees to receive huge retroactive increases in their pensions was sold with the absurd argument that such a gift of public funds could be provided at little or no long-term cost. This argument was based on the irresponsible premise that the stock market bubble of the late 1990s would continue indefinitely. Eleven years later, cities, counties and other government agencies up and down the state...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – A U.N. official says an agreement has been reached for sweeping anti-corruption reviews on how countries account for their public assets. .. The head of the U.N. office leading anti-corruption efforts, Antonio Maria Costa, calls it a landmark decision to track and return public funds looted by political leaders and others. .. opens the way for U.N. inspectors and non-governmental groups to probe more than 140 countries that have signed the U.N. anti-corruption convention. .. allows countries to block the outside visits and offer their own assessments. Activist groups complain this is too weak.

Kremlin. (IMAGEmarkt) E-Mail this article Comments to Editor Discussion Forum Printer-Friendly Advertisement Multinational corporations and Russian oligarchs should be making bonfires out of their external-relations strategies in Russia over the holiday season. Russian consumer markets, which have been growing at more than 40 percent annually since 1999, are beginning to cool off and changes in the regulatory environment seem to have taken many companies off-guard. So many companies and their advisers had based their strategies on defiance and disrespect for the law, sponsoring corruption and funding political opposition that Russia under Putin, a country with laws, seems an alien place...

MERIDA, Mexico - Top officials from around the globe signed the first worldwide anti-corruption treaty Tuesday, a move that may open banks in money havens to more scrutiny and allow some poor countries to recover billions of looted dollars. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (news - web sites) and Mexican President Vicente Fox (news - web sites) were among the first to sign the U.N. Convention Against Corruption, a pact that requires countries to aid in investigations and return money to wherever it was stolen or embezzled from. The convention, expected to be signed by more than 100 nations over...