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Mbappe, Vinicius among four Real Madrid players being investigated by UEFA

European football’s governing body is investigating four Real Madrid players for ‘indecent conduct’ after Atletico game. Four Real Madrid players including Kylian Mbappe and Vinicius Junior are being investigated by UEFA for alleged “indecent conduct” during the Champions League game at Atletico Madrid. UEFA, European football’s governing body, said on Thursday it appointed a disciplinary inspector to study the unspecified …

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1 week, 4 days ago

CBI files three cases in Rs 9,000-crore Noida Sports City scam, conducts raids

India Today

The CBI has registered three cases to investigate alleged irregularities worth Rs 9,000 crore in the Noida Sports City project, following directions from the Allahabad High Court. The cases target multiple companies, their directors, and unidentified public servants, with searches conducted at various locations in Delhi and Noida. The alleged scam, which occurred between 2011 and 2014, revolves around the …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

EU parliament rocked by corruption investigation linked to China’s Huawei

Al Jazeera

Belgian authorities announce arrests of several people in connection with alleged bribery within the parliament. Police have arrested several people as part of a corruption probe targeting the European Parliament and Chinese tech company Huawei, Belgian authorities have said. The suspects, who are alleged to have been involved in “active corruption” within the European Parliament to benefit Huawei, were arrested …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

EU parliament roiled by graft probe linked to China's Huawei

Hindustan Times

A new graft scandal rocked the European Parliament after police carried out raids Thursday in Belgium and Portugal, detaining multiple suspects in a probe into suspicions of corruption under the guise of lobbying, for the benefit of Chinese tech giant Huawei. EU parliament roiled by graft probe linked to China's Huawei The new investigation comes more than two years after …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Efforts intensified to foster businesses

China Daily

By CUI JIA | China Daily | Updated: 2025-02-19 08:49 China has stepped up efforts to protect the rights of State-owned, private and foreign businesses, helping boost entrepreneur confidence and fostering a healthier business environment, officials from the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Tuesday. Last year, more than 40,000 people were prosecuted for crimes disrupting market order, a 21 percent …

Environment Business State

1 month, 3 weeks ago

Corruption derailing climate fight, watchdog warns

Al Jazeera

Corruption threatens to “derail” global cooperation to tackle climate change, according to graft watchdog Transparency International. ‘Devastating’ TI noted the “devastating” effect of global corruption on the fight against climate change. “Amidst record-breaking global heating and extreme weather events, corruption is exacerbating the climate crisis,” the report read. “We must urgently root out corruption before it fully derails meaningful climate …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Victorian 'whistleblower' prosecuted after leaking information from Lawyer X investigation office

ABC

Victoria's integrity watchdog has prosecuted a "whistleblower" who was caught leaking details of a top-secret Lawyer X investigation to the media. One story claimed OSI staff wanted charges laid against Simon Overland, a former police chief who headed up the anti-gangland Purana Taskforce while Ms Gobbo was informing on her clients. Defence lawyer Sally Vardy said JB had an "incredibly …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Corruption in Chinese chess exposed

China Daily

With reigning Asian Games champion and several grandmasters banned for life, the latest crackdown on corruption in xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has exposed a serious integrity crisis tarnishing the board game's profile in China. Three more high-profile players — 2023 Asian Games gold medalist Zheng Weitong, silver medalist Zhao Xinxin and Wang Yang, who all previously held grandmaster titles — …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Corruption in Chinese chess exposed

China Daily

With reigning Asian Games champion and several grandmasters banned for life, the latest crackdown on corruption in xiangqi, or Chinese chess, has exposed a serious integrity crisis tarnishing the board game's profile in China. Three more high-profile players — 2023 Asian Games gold medalist Zheng Weitong, silver medalist Zhao Xinxin and Wang Yang, who all previously held grandmaster titles — …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

After year of big corruption crackdown, China promises more probes, retribution

Hindustan Times

By Ryan Woo After year of big corruption crackdown, China promises more probes, retribution BEIJING - One day before a key meeting of China's anti-graft watchdog, the state broadcaster aired a programme on how grassroots corruption is being crushed, dispelling any notion that China is losing its grip on graft. "A businessman might offer me money directly, and I'd refuse," …

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2 months, 4 weeks ago

China's unyielding fight against corruption

China Daily

BEIJING - China's top disciplinary agency is set to convene a pivotal plenary session from Jan 6 to 8, where it will outline key priorities in the fight against corruption for the year ahead. According to the country's top anti-corruption watchdog, 58 high-ranking officials under the supervision of the Communist Party of China Central Committee were probed last year. In …

China Corruption Corrupt 2024 Key

3 months ago

The irreversible effect of football and why ‘cold, hard money’ doesn’t always win

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

China steps up anti-corruption efforts in key sectors to boost public trust

China Daily

China's supervisory authorities have intensified efforts to combat corruption and misconduct in areas directly affecting residents' daily lives, aiming to enhance public security, happiness, and well-being, according to a report presented to lawmakers on Sunday. The report, delivered by Liu Jinguo, head of the National Commission of Supervision, was submitted to the ongoing session of the Standing Committee of the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China jails former Premier League star Li Tie 20 years for corruption

Deccan Chronicle

China on Friday jailed former Premier League star and men's national coach Li Tie for 20 years for bribery, snaring one of the country's greatest football figures in a sweeping government crackdown on corruption in sport.President Xi Jinping has waged an unrelenting campaign against deep-seated official corruption since coming to power over a decade ago.Anti-graft authorities took aim at the …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ex-soccer executives get prison terms for corruption

China Daily

Two more former senior soccer executives have received prison terms in Hubei province, as China's anti-corruption campaign in the sport continues. On Friday, Du Zhaocai, former deputy head of the General Administration of Sport of China and former vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery, and fined 4 million yuan, the Wuhan …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Ex-soccer executives get prison terms for corruption

China Daily

Two more former senior soccer executives have received prison terms in Hubei province, as China's anti-corruption campaign in the sport continues. On Friday, Du Zhaocai, former deputy head of the General Administration of Sport of China and former vice-president of the Chinese Football Association, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for bribery, and fined 4 million yuan, the Wuhan …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

China jails former national football coach for 20 years for bribery

The Independent

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Li Tie: China sentences former Everton star and national team coach to 20 years for corruption

The Independent

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4 months, 1 week ago

Fifpro submit report accusing Fifa and Uefa of failing to apply safety standards worldwide

The Independent

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Premier League confirm three-year prison sentence for fan found guilty of illicit streaming with 'dodgy' Firesticks

Daily Mail

A football fan has been jailed for over three years after pleading guilty to selling 'dodgy' Firesticks to allow access to pirate streams of Premier League football. He has been jailed for three years and four months, as confirmed by the Premier League, which includes a separate sentence for accessing and viewing the content he supplied. A man has been …

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5 months ago

Fifa accused of contributing to ‘very serious’ human rights abuses in damning new report

The Independent

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5 months ago

England to ban players from franchise leagues suspected of corruption

The Telegraph

England will ban players from competitions which are suspected of corruption and will also move to prevent cricketers from entering new franchise leagues after teams have been eliminated from other tournaments played at the same time. A special report by Telegraph Sport on Tuesday highlighted concerns about cricket’s saturated schedule, ‘double dipping’ – whereby defeat for a team in one …

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5 months ago

Financial Charges: A Weaponized Assault on Independent Media

The Hindu

Governments are increasingly wielding economic and financial crime charges to silence independent journalism worldwide, according to a new joint report by the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) and the World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). The report highlights how authorities systematically employ tax evasion, money laundering, and other financial charges to paralyze media operations and discredit journalists.

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Man City and Premier League’s legal battle leaves alarming threat to ‘half the clubs’

The Independent

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Man City hearing is the chance to clear the club’s name or taint its dominance of English soccer

Associated Press

MANCHESTER, England — The biggest challenge to Manchester City’s Premier League dominance was due to start on Monday at a hearing into a slew alleged financial breaches. “Everybody is innocent until guilt is proven.” The charges City was accused by the Premier League in February last year of providing misleading information about its finances over a nine-year period between 2009-18 …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Crackdown intensified on illegal activities in soccer

China Daily

A press conference on campaign to address match-fixing, gambling and bribery in China's professional football leagues is held in Dalian, Liaoning province on Tuesday. Citing the latest findings of a nationwide investigation, the ministry announced that 128 suspects, including former Chinese international players and team officials, from 41 domestic clubs have been arrested on suspicion of gambling, match fixing and …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Crackdown intensified on illegal activities in soccer

China Daily

A press conference on campaign to address match-fixing, gambling and bribery in China's professional football leagues is held in Dalian, Liaoning province on Tuesday. Citing the latest findings of a nationwide investigation, the ministry announced that 128 suspects, including former Chinese international players and team officials, from 41 domestic clubs have been arrested on suspicion of gambling, match fixing and …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

128 suspects arrested in violations of soccer gambling and bribery

China Daily

A press conference on campaign to address match-fixing, gambling and bribery in China's professional football leagues is held in Dalian, Liaoning province on Tuesday. The latest wave of anti-corruption efforts in soccer has led to the apprehension of 128 suspects involved in infractions related to gambling, match-fixing, and bribery since 2022, in connection with 120 matches in China's domestic leagues, …

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7 months ago

South Africa is investigating alleged $7B corruption at state-owned companies

Associated Press

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — South Africa has active investigations into alleged corruption totaling more than $7 billion at some of its top state-owned companies, according to a report published Tuesday by the national anti-graft unit. Those investigations involve six state-owned businesses: ports and rail company Transnet, arms company Denel, power utility Eskom, the National Lotteries Commission, national airline South …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Two soccer officials face bribery charges

China Daily

Two former soccer officials stood on trial for multiple charges, including accepting bribes, in courts in central China's Hubei province on Monday. The People's Court of Shishou, Hubei, publicly heard the case of Qi Jun, former director of the strategic planning department of the Chinese Football Association, on charges of accepting bribes. In another case, the People's Court of Tongcheng …

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8 months ago

Investigation launched into possible breach of CAF regulations

The Hindu

The Confederation of African Football confirmed it is investigating allegations of a breach of the governance and auditing regulations within its secretariat, after media reports of grievances against general secretary Veron Mosengo-Omba. CAF president Patrice Motsepe said in Thursday’s statement: “There is zero tolerance in CAF for corruption or breaching CAF’s internal governance, audit and transparency regulations or for violating …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Fifa investigates Canada amid drone spying scandal at Olympic Games

The Independent

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9 months, 1 week ago

Football Leaks hacker threatens to release Man City documents

The Independent

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Probe into corruption at Spanish soccer federation expanded to include Rubiales’ successor

Associated Press

BARCELONA, Spain — The investigation into corruption inside the Spanish soccer federation under former president Luis Rubiales has been expanded to include his successor, Pedro Rocha, a Madrid-based court said Friday. Rocha told local media when leaving the court that his “conscience is clear.” Rocha took over as interim federation president after Rubiales stepped down in September, weeks after he …

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11 months, 4 weeks ago

Luis Rubiales arrested on arrival in Spain over Saudi Arabia corruption investigation

The Telegraph

Spanish media reported on Wednesday afternoon that he had been released following questioning, but the investigation remains ongoing. Investigators are also examining whether Rubiales benefited financially from a company owned by another former footballer, Francisco Javier Martín, known as ‘Nene’, which received more than half a million euros from firms that won contracts with the RFEF. According to media reports, …

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1 year ago

Supervision only way to break soccer's corruption cycle

China Daily

Several senior officials in the country's soccer administrative system were sentenced to prison after being found guilty of corruption and power abuses on Tuesday. But since this has been the third large-scale anti-graft campaign in the soccer sector over the past 30 years, during which the Chinese national soccer team has fallen in FIFA rankings from around 40th to around …

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1 year ago

Supervision only way to break soccer's corruption cycle

China Daily

Several senior officials in the country's soccer administrative system were sentenced to prison after being found guilty of corruption and power abuses on Tuesday. But since this has been the third large-scale anti-graft campaign in the soccer sector over the past 30 years, during which the Chinese national soccer team has fallen in FIFA rankings from around 40th to around …

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1 year ago

China hands down terms of life to 8 years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes

The Independent

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1 year ago

China hands down terms of life to eight years for sports officials convicted of taking bribes

The Hindu

The former president of the Chinese Football Association has been sentenced to life in prison amid a wide-ranging crackdown on sports corruption. Chinese courts on Tuesday handed down sentences of between eight years and life in prison to officials in the Communist Party-controlled sports programs, accusing them of taking bribes and committing other financial crimes. Other high-ranking officials sentenced to …

China Chinese Eight Years Officials Convicted

1 year ago

Real Madrid coach Ancelotti accused of tax fraud: The whole issue and list of football stars who faced similar charges

Firstpost

While Carlo Ancelotti can still win his case, or make a deal to avoid trial, Spain has not flinched when it comes to taking on football superstars like Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho for alleged tax evasion. AP Football personalities coming under scrutiny in Spain for tax evasion is nothing new and Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has …

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1 year ago

Bribery shield taken away by SC: Just as well

Live Mint

The Supreme Court has held that lawmakers are not immune from prosecution in cases of bribery for making a speech or voting a certain way in Parliament or state legislatures. The verdict of the seven-judge bench sets aside the judgement in the 1998 Jharkhand Mukti Morcha case, in which a five-member bench of the apex court had upheld the immunity …

Parliament Law Corruption

1 year, 1 month ago

Spanish athletes demand ‘honesty and transparency’ from doping agency

The Hindu

Seventy-eight top-level Spanish athletes on Wednesday expressed their “firm and absolute rejection of the latest actions” of the Spanish anti-doping agency, whose head was sacked last month following accusations of irregularities. In a statement published on social networks, the sportsmen and women, including two-time world walking champions Alvaro Martín and Maria Perez, demanded “honesty and transparency” from the agency’s directors …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Abuse of officials and players at Rugby World Cup sparks legal action

The Independent

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1 year, 2 months ago

Global corruption fight faltering as rule of law declines: Watchdog

Al Jazeera

Global efforts to fight corruption are faltering as the rule of law retreats, Transparency International said in its latest report. “Weakening justice systems that reduce the accountability of public officials is a key factor in allowing corruption to thrive globally.” “Corruption will continue to thrive until justice systems can punish wrongdoing and keep governments in check,” added the NGO’s Chair …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Docuseries tackles corruption in soccer

China Daily

The final episode of an anti-corruption documentary series, which aired on China Central Television on Tuesday, garnered widespread interest as it bared the dark underbelly of Chinese soccer, exposing rampant abuse of power and instances of match-fixing and bribery involving several senior soccer officials. The episode started with details of the investigation launched in November 2022 against Li Tie, former …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Xi Jinping tells officials they are ‘being followed by shadows’ as he cracks down on corruption

The Telegraph

Chinese officials should feel like they are being “followed by shadows”, Xi Jinping, the president, has said as he continues his crackdown on corruption. Mr Xi gave his warning at a meeting of the Central Auditing Commission in May, but the previously unpublished speech was revealed in Qiushi, the leading Communist Party journal this week, the South China Morning Post …

China Corruption Mr Xi

1 year, 5 months ago

Barcelona president under investigation in referee corruption case

The Independent

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1 year, 6 months ago

La Liga: Real Madrid's Carlo Ancelotti 'Worried' Over Barcelona's Bribery Charges

News 18

Real Madrid head coach, Carlo Ancelotti expressed that he remains ‘worried’ regarding the bribery charges on defending La Liga champions, Barcelona. A Spanish judge charged the Catalan club and other former directors of bribery on Thursday after being alleged payments to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira who happened to be a former Spanish refereeing vice-president. “I am worried like everyone in …

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