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The UK's Prime Minister, David Cameron has announced intentions to combat global corruption by creating a global register of foreign firms that own property in the UK.

The UK's Prime Minister, David Cameron has announced intentions to combat global corruption by creating a global...

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After news broke in November 2006 that Siemens had been involved in a global corruption scandal, involving thousands of acts of bribery in several different countries by hundreds of employees, the company had its work cut out for it in complying with securities investigations, and paying hefty fines (about $ 2.5 billion in total).

The release of the 40 - page document comes amid a large crackdown by U.S. authorities, who recently arrested several top officials from the global soccer organization on corruption charges.

In his remarks, Sheikh Al - Thani said that the global opinion on Nigeria as an investment destination had been boosted by President Buhari's strong standing against corruption and adherence to the rule of law.

While criticising the Corruption Perception Index issued by Transparency International, Saraki urged the global body to adopt «more robust parameters» that would show the improvement made by countries in their anti-graft wars.

Beset by corruption, backroom deals and voter scorn, New York received a score of 61, a D -, placing it in 31st place nationwide in the State Integrity Investigation, a data - driven assessment of state government accountability and transparency conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and Global Integrity.

The organization, in the petition signed by its senior staff attorney, Timothy Adewale, said, «The allegation that N500m has been lost to corruption has resulted in denying the girls access to education, and shows the failure of the former President Goodluck Jonathan government to live up to Nigeria's commitments under the global Safe School Declaration.»

The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a public - private partnership backed by the U.S., France, Japan, the Gates Foundation and others, has had some recent funding troubles and allegations of corruption, and it recently underwent some major restructuring.

BANKRUPTING THE THIRD WORLD: How the Global Elite Drown Poor Nations in a Sea of Debt, by novelists, filmmakers and independent researchers James Morcan & Lance Morcan, exposes the culture of corruption within the aforementioned aid organizations and the arrogance with which they treat their Third World «clients.»

By Larry Bell I've encountered some folks who appear offended by the title of my new book Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming HoaBy Larry Bell I've encountered some folks who appear offended by the title of my new book Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoaby the title of my new book Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax.

What began as a «vendetta» against Hillary Clinton morphed into an effort to show corruption in American politics and to «split off key American allies by creating the image that [other countries] couldn't depend on the U.S. to be a credible global leader anymore,» the official said.

He's the snake oil salesman who said that the CRU emails «had no effect on science» because he is fully at ease with corruption of data in his screaming global warming doom mongering, kept in his position by his anti coal nuclear interests.

A measure of he scale of corruption can seem in endless studies, which «had» to be related to «global warming», so a thick phone book of how everything imaginable is caused by global warming.

If your faith in today's scientific establishment was shaken recently by successive waves of fraud on the part of climate scientists — from systematically suppressing evidence of global cooling, to attempting to erase the Middle Ages, to falsely claiming the Himalayan glaciers were rapidly melting — get ready for more scientific corruption, a lot more.

Today's vote by the Republican - controlled House of Representatives to undo a rule designed to stop corruption in the oil industry poses a grave threat to U.S. national security, said Global Witness today.

Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by highlighting the links between the exploitation of natural resources, conflict and corruption.

Abuja, Nigeria — A major oil deal struck by ExxonMobil with the Nigerian Government is being investigated by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a law enforcement agency that investigates high - level corruption, Global Witness reveals today.

Start dissecting their narratives, comparing them side - by - side while looking for physical evidence corroborating Ross Gelbspan's «industry corruption» accusation against skeptic climate scientists, and a very different picture becomes clear: these people's narratives don't line up right, they collectively have no evidence backing up their accusation, and this prompts serious questions of whether core leaders of the global warming movement are totally oblivious to this situation, or if they knew their narratives had no merit from the start.

Christopher Booker accuses climate scientists of falsifying data in the global surface temperature record, describing a «wholesale corruption of proper science,» citing a paper by the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) as evidence.

As highlighted by the recent Global Witness report «A Conflict of Interests: The uncertain future of Burma's forests», the timber trade in Burma is unregulated, highly destructive of the environment and intertwined with corruption, illegality, and armed conflict.

While Akasofu and others have specifically pointed out what they perceive to be corruption of the scientific process by the catastrophic human caused global warming (CAGW) crowd, Lockwood does not make any such statements.

A submission made to this Review by Andrew Montford and Tony Newbery (both active in the anti ‐ global ‐ warming movement, and the former the author of The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science) devotes much of its content to criticising not the data on temperatures but the membership of a BBC seminar on the topic in 2006, and to a lengthy discussion as to whether its Environment Analyst was carrying out BBC duties or acting as a freelance during an environment programme at Cambridge University.

The seafood industry is dark and dirty, fraught with corruption that is only just beginning to be revealed by persistent groups like Greenpeace, Global Fishing Watch, Oceana, and satellite imaging non-profit group called SkyTruth.

A major oil deal struck by ExxonMobil with the Nigerian Government is being investigated by Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a law enforcement agency that investigates high - level corruption, Global Witness reveals today.

The results presented in this paper rely on data from the Global Corruption Barometer 2013 provided by Transparency International.

The World Bank, the African Development Bank, the Nordic Investment Bank, and other multilateral and bilateral development partners with a stake in the fight against corruption, including the United Nations and regional organizations such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, academia, and research institutes, have launched a study (the Study) under the auspices of the Global Forum on Law, Justice, and Development, a mechanism shared by a worldwide network of stakeholders designed to capture, co-generate, exchange, and disseminate innovative legal solutions for development.

Europe Our European practice has recently focused on representing (i) the Fédération Internationale de Football Association («FIFA») in connection with U.S. and Swiss criminal investigations into allegations of bribery and corruption in the international soccer world («Investigation»), including conducting an internal investigation on behalf of the organization; (ii) two major European banks, including by investigating whether the banks knew or should have known that accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes; (iii) a multinational logistics and transportation company based in Switzerland in a DOJ investigation of alleged violations of the FCPA; (iv) a Switzerland - based, international private bank, in connection with the global criminal investigations involving 1MDB, Malaysia's sovereign wealth fund; (v) several major European banks in connection with the «Panama Papers» investigation focused on whether accounts at the bank held under the names of companies created by the Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, were used to evade taxes, conduct business with sanctioned individuals or companies, or otherwise engage in criminal activity; (vi) ENRC, a large mining conglomerate formerly listed on the London Stock Exchange, in a high - profile investigation by the UK's Serious Fraud Office of alleged bribery in the company's operations in Africa and Kazikhstan; and (vii) several European banks in connection with the Petrobras and PdVSA investigations focused on whether accounts at the banks were used to pay bribes to Petrobras or PdVSA officials in return for contracts.