The Hawks have confirmed that they are pursuing more suspects linked to the VBS Mutual Bank looting after the kingpin was yesterday imprisoned for 15 years following a plea and sentencing agreement with the state, notes Legalbrief. Former VBS chairperson ... Read More

A Premier who once defended the infamous Gupta family and a Cabinet Minister accused of corruption are just some of the politicians who were elected to lead some of Parliament's crucial portfolio committees on Tuesday, reports News24. There was ... Read More

The allegedly corrupt relationship between former Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and businesswoman Nombasa Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu is said to have started when a R104m contract awarded to the defence contractor was suspended. In an endeavour to ‘rectify the situation’, Ntsondwa-Ndhlovu allegedly phoned ... Read More

A full Bench of the Gauteng High Court (Pretoria) has invalidated a 2019 report by Busisiwe Mkhwebane in which the former Public Protector made damning findings against then Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti over his involvement in illicit land deals ... Read More

In the rapidly evolving landscape of finance, regulatory technology is playing a growing role in how banks and other financial institutions manage their compliance obligations, writes Warwick Sneider in a Business Day analysis. By leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial ... Read More

Ernst and Young, Kenya (EY Kenya) has been debarred by the World Bank from its projects and programmes for two years over conflict of interest and corruption. The World Bank said it debarred the EY Kenya after investigations revealed it ... Read More

Former Minister of Fisheries & Marine Resources Bernhard Esau has won a High Court case to get access to some of his assets that are under a restraint order, to enable him to pay his lawyers in the Fishrot case ... Read More

Zimbabwe’s sovereign wealth fund reportedly paid a ‘grossly inflated’ $1.6bn to unknown private individuals to buy their shares in a mining conglomerate with recent links to Kudakwashe Tagwirei, a controversial presidential adviser and ruling party donor accused of corruption ... Read More

Federal police investigators have claimed that a criminal group, allegedly involving Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, tried to illegally siphon off and sell luxury gifts from foreign leaders worth at least $1.2m, reports The Guardian. The new claims came ... Read More

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani wants his bankruptcy plan to be dismissed, his lawyer has told a New York court. Giuliani attorney Gary Fischoff told Judge Sean Lane that the former mayor's estate was worth about $8m ... Read More

The highest-income US households would receive more than 45% of the benefits if the expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are extended, according to an analysis released Monday by the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Centre. CNN reports ... Read More

* The Hawks have made a breakthrough in the KZN Department of Health’s R32m fraud case by arresting a third person, says a Cape Argus report. Nandi Msimang (52), the director of Mzansi Lifecare, was arrested in Sandton in Gauteng and ... Read More