Corruption

The corruption probe into former Socialist Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero appears set to expand as police have seized hundreds of thousands in cash and jewellery, while reports have emerged indicating that authorities believe the alleged influence peddling extended to oil and gold projects in Venezuela.

They are just diapers. But they have landed California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) into messy accusations of corruption for dumping $20 million in taxpayer money into a nonprofit led by an executive who sits on the board of his wife’s organization.

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents conducted a raid on Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas’s (D) office on Wednesday regarding an investigation into corruption.

Spanish conservative group Hazte Oír on Monday filed a popular prosecution request against Begoña Gómez, wife of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, seeking a 24 year-prisons sentence in the ongoing corruption trial process against her.

Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) web of shady family ties goes even deeper than her alleged marriage to her brother — reportedly using her political offices to secure millions of dollars for a Minneapolis health clinic operated by her sister, who is married to a top Somali government official.

A local Republican committee in a deep red Virginia county is in turmoil after RINOs and Democrats staged what some members are calling a “coup” by using a disorganized meeting to hold a flawed election to pick a new chairman and oust more than 100 people.

A court in Peru on Monday ruled that President José Jerí must comply with a psychological treatment for “psychosexual pathology” that he failed to submit himself to after he was accused of alleged rape in 2025.

The Dhaka Special Court in Bangladesh on Monday sentenced former prime minister Sheikh Hasina to ten years in prison on two corruption indictments.

Gen. Zhang Youxia, top-ranked vice chairman of China’s Central Military Commission, has been abruptly sacked and placed under investigation.

President of Peru Jose Jeri this week vowed that he will not resign from his position amid the ongoing scandal over his undisclosed meetings with a Chinese businessman known as “Chifagate.”

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is reportedly considering a run for Minnesota governor after Gov. Tim Walz (D) announced the end of his reelection campaign, but her track record is a mess of political scandals.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed ethnically Ukrainian former deputy Prime Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland as his new economic advisor on Sunday.

Zelenskyy had dismissed his previous chief of staff after anti-corruption officials began investigating alleged graft in the energy sector.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, were each sentenced to 17 years in prison for corruption on Saturday. Khan’s party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), denounced the ruling as a “black chapter in history” and declared there is “no rule of law in Pakistan.”

Opposition lawmakers from the Democratic Party (DP) of Albania unleashed chaos in parliament on Thursday, lighting flares, throwing water bottles at Speaker Niko Peleshi as he tried to restore order, and scuffling with police.

Former Bolivian President Luis Arce, who left the head of state job on November 8, was arrested on Wednesday on charges of misappropriation of state funds as part of an investigation into a broad corruption scheme linked to the Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) Party.

Former E.U. Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini resigned from her position as head of the College of Europe on Thursday hours after being detained and accused of corruption in an ongoing investigation.

The European Union’s former foreign policy chief faces corruption accusations alongside two other people arrested this week.

Chinese Communist Party official Chen Weijun, executive vice chairman of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), on Sunday became the latest Chinese official in the homeland of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims to be purged on corruption charges.

UK Parliamentarian Tulip Siddiq has been sentenced in absentia for what a Bangladeshi court said was her role in a corruption plot.

President Zelensky said he was acting to get ahead of “rumours and speculation” as he dismissed his chief of staff and lead peace negotiator.

Peace negotiations risk disruption as top negotiator raided by Ukrainian anti-corruption police, apparently over nuclear energy kickbacks.

Thousands of people took to the streets of North Macedonia’s capital on Saturday demanding justice for the victims of a nightclub fire – the deadliest blaze in the country’s history – ahead of the trial next week of the club owner and others.

Ex-Zelensky ally Mindich accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement and kickback scheme involving Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company.

The justice and energy ministers of Ukraine resigned on Wednesday, the latest officials to be toppled by a fast-growing corruption scandal involving the energy industry.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) former chief of staff was reportedly arrested and charged with having conspired to commit bank and wire fraud, among other things, as part of a “political corruption investigation.”

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) made a deal on Monday to form a coalition with the Japan Innovation Party, generally known as “Ishin,” that should clear away the final obstacles to conservative Takaichi Sanae becoming Japan’s first female prime minister.

Violent overnight protests in Peru against the week-old government of Interim President José Jerí left one dead and over 100 injured, mostly police officers.

The Peruvian Congress voted on Friday morning to remove President Dina Boluarte from office, on the grounds that she was not dealing effectively with a crime wave sweeping the country.

Nicolás Petro Burgos, Colombian far-left President Gustavo Petro’s oldest son, admitted on Sunday that he received 1.3 billion Colombian pesos (roughly $336,000) during his father’s 2022 presidential campaign, but denied that the funds were illegal or meant for his father’s campaign.

Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Meija said Wednesday that the city had wasted millions of dollars on outside audits of its homelessness program rather than using his office for free — then ignored the results.

A Paris court ruled on illegal financing of 2007 presidential campaign with money from the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Health experts on Monday urged the Indonesian government to suspend its program of free school meals after hundreds of children became sick from eating tainted food.

A massive rally was held in Turkey’s capital of Ankara on Sunday to protest an upcoming court hearing that could strip opposition leader Ozgur Ozel of his post.

Police reportedly opened fire on demonstrators in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, after protests against a government ban on most social media platforms swelled to enormous size on Monday. The official casualty count included 19 dead and 150 injured as of Monday afternoon.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 on Tuesday that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin could, in fact, withhold $16 billion in so-called “gold bars” sent from the outgoing Biden administration to favored left-wing “green” organizations.