Mexico President Felipe Calderon is continuing to promise that he will clean up his own government after several high profile officials were found to have been taking money from drug cartels. From the AP (via Google News): Calderon’s sweeping crackdown on powerful drug cartels has in recent weeks been shaken by a nationwide corruption scandal. The government revealed [...]

The former Drug Czar in Mexico was arrested on suspicion that he accepted $450,000 a month from drug smugglers. From CNN: Mexican authorities have detained the country’s former drug czar on suspicion that he may have accepted $450,000 a month in bribes from drug traffickers, Mexico’s attorney general said Friday. Noe Ramirez Mandujano was in charge from 2006 [...]

New laws proposed by UK officials aims to strengthen the countries anti-corruption laws. From the AP (via Google News): Employers who turn a blind eye to corruption face up to 10 years in jail as part of a radical overhaul of Britain’s bribery laws proposed by the British Law Commission on Thursday. The commission, the government’s law reform [...]

Mexico’s Liaison to Interpol was placed under house arrest for his ties to drug cartels. From the AP (via Google News): A top police official who worked as Mexico’s main liaison with Interpol was placed under house arrest as part of an investigation into leaks of information to drug cartels, prosecutors said Tuesday. The arrest of Ricardo Gutierrez [...]

The Former President of Taiwan was detained by police for corruption. From the IHT: Chen Shui-bian, the former president of Taiwan, was detained by the police in Taipei on Tuesday after prosecutors sought his formal arrest on corruption and money laundering charges, according to Taipei television. Chen, who served as president from 2000 until earlier this year and headed [...]

A man once dubbed “America’s Sheriff” is standing trail on charges of corruption. From the AP (via Google News): A former Orange County sheriff was a sharp, inspiring leader consumed by greed and adept at manipulating his closest co-workers and friends to benefit himself, a prosecutor said Wednesday as the lawman’s federal corruption trial began. The government alleges [...]

A Vietnamese reporter has been sentenced to 2 years in prison for writing a report on a corruption scandal in Vietnam. From the Washington Post: A court in Vietnam has handed down a two-year prison sentence to a journalist who exposed a scandal involving Transport Ministry officials siphoning off aid money, in part to bet on European [...]

The former president of Guatemala has been extradited from Mexico to face corruption charges.  From Reuters: Former Guatemalan President Alfonso Portillo, accused of fraud and corruption at the end of his term in 2004, was extradited on Tuesday from Mexico to face charges in his home country. Portillo slipped into Mexico amid a wave of arrests of his [...]

An Afghan governor is attempting to persuade farmers not to plant opium instead of eradicating the crop after it has been planted. From the IHT: As the new planting season for opium poppy draws near, the governor of Helmand, Afghanistan’s largest poppy-producing province, says that this year he is determined to beat the illicit crop, which is [...]

Somalia tops the list as the world’s most corrupt country, according to Transparency International. From the AP (via IHT): Somalia remains rooted to the bottom of a global corruption index that also features Iraq and Afghanistan among the world’s most corrupt countries, an international watchdog’s annual report said Tuesday. Rich European countries such as Britain and Italy also have [...]