Tag: corruption

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Corruption continues to plague too many countries, says Transparency

  

  Corruption continues to plague too many countries around the world, according to Transparency International’s 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index released Wednesday. It shows some governments failing to protect citizens from corruption, be it abuse of public resources, bribery or secretive decision-making.

• Thursday, December 1st 2011 - 04:14 UTC

  Countdown for Brazil’s Labour minister: sixth cabinet loss on corruption allegations

  

  Brazil’s Executive Committee on Public Ethics, on a unanimous decision adopted on Wednesday recommended President Dilma Rousseff the removal of Labour and Employment Minister Carlos Lupi.

• Sunday, November 27th 2011 - 02:06 UTC

  Brazil’s Labour minister closer to the brink on further corruption accusations

  

  Brazil’s Labour minister Carlos Luppi is again under a barrage of accusations from the Sao Paulo press which could definitively make him the sixth toppled cabinet member in less than a year from the government of President Dilma Rousseff on charges of corruption.

• Thursday, October 27th 2011 - 06:24 UTC

  Brazilian Sports minister resigns: fifth to be forced out over corruption allegations

  

  Brazil's sports minister resigned on Wednesday over a corruption scandal, the country's GloboNews television station said, reviving concern over President Dilma Rousseff's unstable ruling coalition and the country's lagging preparations for the 2014 World Cup.

• Tuesday, October 18th 2011 - 18:46 UTC

  Praise and support for Brazilian president in her fight against corruption

  

  The Secretary General of Ibero-America Enrique Iglesias praised the “courage” displayed by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff who has been challenged by serious corruption allegations involving members of her cabinet.

• Monday, October 17th 2011 - 06:59 UTC

  Brazil Sports minister: next victim of the corruption-exposure campaign?

  

  Brazil’s largest circulation magazine Veja, claimed in its last edition that the Sports Minister Orlando Silva has been involved in corruption actions totalling millions of dollars originally destined to promote sports among children from poor households.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 07:38 UTC

  Brazilian Catholic bishops join anit-corrution protests and call for ‘deep reforms’

  

  Brazilian Catholic bishops called for “a profound political reform” against corruption and strongly supported the popular protests that have erupted in the country following the disclosure of several scandals that have swept away four ministers and has reached the doorsteps of Congress.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 22:08 UTC

  Cuban regime warns “corrupt and corruptors”; close friend of Raul Castro family arrested

  

  Cuba’s official press blasted the “corrupt and corruptors” more specifically “those scoundrels dressed in civil servant responsibilities” because they put at risk the island’s long struggle to make Socialism successful.

• Wednesday, September 21st 2011 - 05:58 UTC

  Brazilian daily creates a “Folhaleaks” to help combat rampant corruption

  

  Brazilian daily Folha de Sao Paulo on Sunday launched an online initiative to collect feedback from sensitive information and leaks for journal investigation, a Web site it dubbed “Folhaleaks” in direct reference to the widely known Wikileaks Web site founded by Julian Assange.

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 00:58 UTC

  Hundreds of brooms in Rio’s beaches to protest Brazilian rampant corruption

  

  A total of 594 brooms representing Brazil’s 81 senators and 513 members of the Lower House have been planted in the famous Copacabana beach of Rio do Janeiro by a non government organization demanding for action against rampant corruption.