The EU has threatened to impose sanctions on Belarus, after its President Alexander Lukashenko was accused of election rigging.

Joshua Brien, 47, from Notting Hill, London, appeared at Westminster Magistrates' Court accused of a string of charges between December 2014 and October 2019

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8595035/Notting-Hill-husband-wife-charged-corruption-plot-working-Commonwealth-HQ.html

Ziad Akle has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for paying over $500,000 in bribes to secure a $55m contract to supply offshore mooring buoys.

A lawyer at one of the UK’s most prestigious law firms has been accused of relaying an offer of a £1m “bribe” to police officers as part of a bizarre plot to release €300m (£274m) hidden in a Swiss bank account, according to court transcripts obtained by the Guardian.

The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said yesterday it would launch a review after its head was rebuked by a London judge for being vulnerable to flattery from a freelance agent during a high-profile bribery investigation into oil consultancy Unaoil.

https://www.cityam.com/uk-fraud-office-launches-review-after-director-implicated-in-unaoil-scandal/

LONDON (Reuters) - The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) said on Monday it would launch a review after its head was rebuked by a London judge for being vulnerable to flattery from a freelance agent during a high-profile bribery investigation into oil consultancy Unaoil.

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/uk-fraud-office-launches-review-202815387.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw

The UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has ended its probe into bank note producer De La Rue and alleged corruption in South Sudan.

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Glencore (GLEN) announced after market close on Friday that it is facing a criminal investigation from Swiss Attorney General regarding a “failure to have the organizational measures in place to prevent alleged corruption in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)”.

The investigation was launched in 2019 into De La Rue’s business operations in South Sudan, where it had a contract to print the country’s currency.