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Karnataka government ready to arrest Kumaraswamy in graft case: Siddaramaiah
4 months ago

Karnataka government ready to arrest Kumaraswamy in graft case: Siddaramaiah

The Hindu  

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, facing prosecution in an alleged land scam case, launched a counter attack on Wednesday, saying that his government would not hesitate to arrest Janata Dal leader and Union Minister H.D. The Lokayukta’s Special Investigation Team on Monday sought Governor Thaawarchand Gehlot’s permission to proceed against Mr. Kumaraswamy regarding the iron ore mining lease which was allegedly …

Congress Chief Minister Mining Case State Minister Siddaramaiah
Bangladesh interim govt’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus acquitted in graft case
4 months, 1 week ago

Bangladesh interim govt’s chief adviser Muhammad Yunus acquitted in graft case

The Hindu  

Muhammad Yunus was on Sunday acquitted in a graft case filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission over the misappropriation of funds from the Grameen Telecom Workers and Employees Welfare Fund, three days after he took oath as the head of Bangladesh's interim government, according to a media report. Mr. Yunus, the 84-year-old economist, on Thursday took oath as the interim government's …

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Pakistan court grants bail to Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi in graft case
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan court grants bail to Imran Khan’s wife Bushra Bibi in graft case

The Independent  

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No proof to show graft money powered campaign for 2022 Goa Assembly polls: AAP State chief Amit Palekar
8 months, 4 weeks ago

No proof to show graft money powered campaign for 2022 Goa Assembly polls: AAP State chief Amit Palekar

The Hindu  

Aam Aadmi Party Goa chief Amit Palekar on March 26 rejected the claims that funds generated through Delhi’s alleged excise policy-linked scam powered the party’s campaign ahead of the 2022 Assembly polls in the coastal State. As per the ED, kickbacks received through the alleged Delhi excise scam were used by the AAP in the 2022 Goa Assembly polls. Mr. …

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Former Chief Engineer of Delhi Jal Board among two arrested by ED on graft charges
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Former Chief Engineer of Delhi Jal Board among two arrested by ED on graft charges

The Hindu  

The Enforcement Directorate has arrested a former Delhi Jal Board Chief Engineer and another person in a money laundering case for alleged corruption in giving work contract to a private company. The accused have been identified as Jagdish Kumar Arora, who was the DJB Chief Engineer; and Anil Kumar Aggarwal. The ED’s money laundering probe is based on a first …

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Pakistan commission accepts ex-PM Sharif's nomination for February poll
11 months, 3 weeks ago

Pakistan commission accepts ex-PM Sharif's nomination for February poll

The Hindu  

Pakistan's Election Commission on Thursday accepted former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's nomination for the 2024 elections, weeks after a court overturned two graft convictions, ARY News reported. But Mr. Sharif still needs the removal of a life ban on holding any public office to qualify to stand, so it was not immediately clear how his nomination was accepted. Mr. Sharif, …

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DMK Ministers facing graft charges won’t go scot-free: Edappadi Palaniswami
1 year, 4 months ago

DMK Ministers facing graft charges won’t go scot-free: Edappadi Palaniswami

The Hindu  

AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Sunday said his party will not allow any of the DMK Ministers facing corruption charges to go scot-free under its regime. Addressing his party’s golden jubilee conference, Mr. Palaniswami said that 13 former DMK Ministers were facing corruption charges after the former AIADMK government led by Jayalalithaa filed cases against them. Recalling that …

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Singapore Cabinet Minister arrested in rare top-level graft probe
1 year, 5 months ago

Singapore Cabinet Minister arrested in rare top-level graft probe

The Hindu  

Singapore's Transport Minister has been arrested in connection with a rare top-level corruption probe that has also ensnared a billionaire hotel tycoon, the country's anti-graft body has said. Transport Minister S. Iswaran was "arrested on 11 July 2023" and "subsequently released on bail", the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau said in an emailed statement late on Friday, confirming the arrest for …

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Changes in recruitment system ended graft, nepotism: PM Modi
1 year, 7 months ago

Changes in recruitment system ended graft, nepotism: PM Modi

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: After giving away job letters to about 71,000 new appointees at the National Rozgar Mela, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that changes brought by his government in the recruitment system have ended the possibility of corruption and nepotism. Recalling the difficulties faced in the recruitment process, the Prime Minister pointed out that the staff selection board …

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Cruise case: CBI books Sameer Wankhede, four others on graft charge
1 year, 7 months ago

Cruise case: CBI books Sameer Wankhede, four others on graft charge

The Hindu  

The Central Bureau of Investigation on Friday searched 29 locations in connection with the graft charge against former Narcotics Control Bureau official Sameer Wankhede and four others, related to the 2021 cruise ship case in which Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan Khan was arrested and later given a clean chit. Among those named as accused are the then …

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Tackling graft in a federal system
1 year, 8 months ago

Tackling graft in a federal system

Hindustan Times  

In a spirited defence of the Central Bureau of Investigation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday asked the federal agency not to be deterred by attacks and criticism and continue to go after the corrupt. The investigating agency draws its powers from the Delhi Special Police Establishment Act and remains dependent on a working relationship between the Union government and …

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Mizoram Chief Minister’s brother, five others get bail in graft case
1 year, 10 months ago

Mizoram Chief Minister’s brother, five others get bail in graft case

The Hindu  

: A court in Aizawl on Thursday granted bail to six people, including the brother of Mizoram Chief Minister Zoramthanga, a day after sentencing them to a year in jail in a corruption case. The 60MW project on the Tuirial River in Kolasib district near Mizoram’s boundary with Assam was undertaken by the central sector North Eastern Electric Power Corporation …

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IUML leadership divided over graft charges against Jayarajan
1 year, 11 months ago

IUML leadership divided over graft charges against Jayarajan

The Hindu  

Indian Union Muslim League leadership has been divided over the stand the party ought to take towards the raging controversy within the CPI, following serious allegations of misuse of power and political position against Left Democratic Front convener E.P. When all other parties in the Opposition have reacted to the controversy ignited by veteran CPI leader P. Jayarajan by demanding …

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Karnataka Congress launches PayCM campaign over graft charges
2 years, 3 months ago

Karnataka Congress launches PayCM campaign over graft charges

Deccan Chronicle  

BENGALURU: The members of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday launched a novel campaign against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party government by bringing out posters having a QR code along with the picture of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. The poster, which was pasted in public places, accuses the government of taking 40 per cent commission from contractors carrying out …

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Man arrested for tweeting on recruitment graft, Assam Government flayed
2 years, 3 months ago

Man arrested for tweeting on recruitment graft, Assam Government flayed

The Hindu  

GUWAHATI Opposition parties in Assam have slammed the BJP-led State government for arresting a man who took to Twitter to “expose” a recruitment scam. Victor Das had a few days ago reached out to Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and Director General of Police Bhaskar Jyoti Mahanta on the microblogging site, claiming some officials and former MLAs were involved in …

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Two days after CBI raids on Manish Sisodia, Opposition corners AAP on alleged graft
2 years, 4 months ago

Two days after CBI raids on Manish Sisodia, Opposition corners AAP on alleged graft

The Hindu  

The Opposition parties attacked AAP on Sunday, saying that it should not use Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia’s Education Ministry portfolio to shield him from allegations of graft in the Excise Department of which he is also the Minister. Since Friday’s CBI raids against Mr. Sisodia in connection with a case alleging irregularities in the State government’s now-withdrawn Delhi Excise …

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R.C.P. Singh quits JD(U) after party seeks response on graft charge
2 years, 4 months ago

R.C.P. Singh quits JD(U) after party seeks response on graft charge

The Hindu  

Former Union Steel Minister R.C.P. Nitish Kumar will never become Prime Minister,” Mr. Singh told reporters after resigning from the party from his ancestral home in Nalanda district. Mr. Kushwaha had in the letter to Mr. Singh said, “You have long been working as an official and political worker with party’s unanimously accepted top leader Nitish Kumar. On July 26, …

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CBI arrests four for graft at Paradip Port in Odisha
2 years, 4 months ago

CBI arrests four for graft at Paradip Port in Odisha

Deccan Chronicle  

KOLKATA: The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested an official of Paradip Port Trust in Odisha along with three others and recovered around Rs. The three arrested are Saroj Kumar Das, Chief Mechanical Engineer of Paradip Port Trust, his aide Sumanta Rout alias Bana, Sankha Subhra Mitra, Manager of KCT Group and Surya Narayan Sahoo, DGM of Orissa Stevedores Limited. …

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L-G orders probe into liquor licence ‘graft’
2 years, 4 months ago

L-G orders probe into liquor licence ‘graft’

The Hindu  

Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena on Monday ordered an investigation into “brazen and blatant corruption” by the Delhi government in awarding liquor licences under its revamped excise policy. The investigation was ordered on the basis of a complaint alleging “cartelisation” of the liquor trade and involvement of blacklisted firms in liquor retail in the city. The complainant According to a source …

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Land prices: Three Bengaluru Urban DCs arrested in the last decade
2 years, 5 months ago

Land prices: Three Bengaluru Urban DCs arrested in the last decade

The Hindu  

Former Bengaluru Deputy Commissioner J. Manjunath, arrested over graft charges on Monday, is the third in the post to be arrested in the last decade. Except in the case of Mr. Vijay Shankar, who faced graft charges in the IMA scam, three other DCs faced allegations of corruption in land cases, indicating how skyrocketing land prices on the outskirts of …

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Aryan Khan drugs case | Graft charge against NCB
3 years, 2 months ago

Aryan Khan drugs case | Graft charge against NCB

The Hindu  

In a twist in the Aryan Khan drug racket case, a witness has alleged that he was made to sign on blank papers by the Narcotics Control Bureau authorities and that he reportedly overheard of an alleged pay-off of ₹8 crore to the NCB’s Mumbai zonal director, Sameer Wankhede. The witness said that after this, he allegedly overheard Mr. Gosavi …

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Ex-South Africa president Jacob Zuma gets 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court
3 years, 5 months ago

Ex-South Africa president Jacob Zuma gets 15-month jail sentence for contempt of court

Firstpost  

The 79-year-old, accused of enabling the plunder of State coffers during his nearly nine years in office, has refused to appear before graft investigators Johannesburg: South Africa’s top court on Tuesday handed former president Jacob Zuma a 15-month jail term for contempt of court following his refusal to appear before graft investigators. “The Constitutional Court can do nothing but conclude …

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Nawaz Sharif charged with fresh graft case
4 years, 2 months ago

Nawaz Sharif charged with fresh graft case

The Hindu  

Pakistan’s anti-corruption body has slapped a fresh corruption case on deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, compounding the legal woes of the embattled Opposition leader who has frequently attacked the powerful military as well as the government. The National Accountability Bureau also approved cases against Mr. Sharif’s ex-personal secretary Fawad Hasan Fawad, former federal minister Ahsan Iqbal, former foreign secretary Aizaz …

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Malaysia's ex-finance minister, wife charged with graft
4 years, 4 months ago

Malaysia's ex-finance minister, wife charged with graft

The Hindu  

Malaysia’s former Finance Minister accused the government of taking political vengeance Tuesday after a third graft charge was filed against him and his wife was charged with money laundering. At a news conference after his court hearing, Mr. Lim was visibly upset as he told reporters Mr. Muhyiddin’s government had targeted his family to break his spirit. His wife, Betty …

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