corruption

Corruption in Greece and Western Europe is getting worse, according to the latest report published by Transparency International. The report notes with a three-point decline, Greece which is at number 49 is the worst-performing country in the EU. The organization's latest...

In a peculiar case of corruption, two Greek Port Authority officers have been charged with serious offenses involving the illegal removal and distribution of cocaine in a case of corruption and criminal conspiracy. Noteworthy is that one of those...

US Senator Bob Menendez entered a not-guilty plea on Wednesday to federal accusations of bribery. Prosecutors say that he had accepted cash and gold bars as bribes in exchange for using his political position to advance Egyptian interests and covertly...

The President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan hailed the departure of Senator Bob Menendez as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee saying that Turkey’s chances of acquiring F-16 fighter jets from the U.S. have been boosted. Menendez who has...

Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP at the center of Qatargate, the corruption scandal engulfing the European Parliament, was on Thursday ordered to remain in prison for at least two more months. This was the third time Kaili appeared before the...

A key suspect in the EU Qatargate scandal, former Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri, reached a deal on Tuesday with Belgian prosecutors to divulge information about countries involved and bribes made. In return, he was being offered a "limited sentence"...

The Qatargate scandal, which recently shook the EU—and continues to do so—deepens following the revelation that two more MEPs will have their immunities lifted. Qatargate, as the scandal has been dubbed, concerns the alleged bribery of MEPs, politicians, political staffers,...

Photos of suitcases exchanging hands related to the Qatargare scandal that has rocked Europe were published in the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Tuesday. According to the paper, the photographs show the two main protagonists of the Qatargate corruption scandal,...

Francesco Giorgi, the partner of Greek MEP Eva Kaili who is held in Brussels over the so-called Qatargate corruption scandal, reportedly admitted that he was the person that was bribed and called on the Belgium authorities to free Kaili. According...

On Sunday, Qatar officially denied any involvement in the bribes scandal that has rocked Europe and led to the arrest of members of European Parliament. "The State of Qatar categorically rejects any attempts to associate it with any accusations of...