The South Korean government announced Tuesday that it had granted a special pardon to former President Lee Myung-bak, annulling the 15 years left on his sentence for corruption.

Seoul has launched an investigation after a former Myanmar sailor, now turned defector, leaked evidence proving the Myanmar navy obtained a warship from South Korea under false pretenses and used it to persecute its own civilians.

The South Korean founder of a collapsed cryptocurrency firm, credited with causing the recent crypto-market crash that cost investors US$500 billion, has denied being on the run from accusations of fraud and financial crime probes in multiple jurisdictions.

Grace Road Church believes a nuclear-tinged Judgment Day is rapidly approaching — and that Fiji is the post-apocalyptic promised land from which they’ll feed humanity. But despite repeated accusations of abuses, including ritual beatings and forcing members to perform unpaid labor, they’ve received a warm welcome from the Fijian government.

Hundreds of South Africa’s abandoned coal mines pose a deadly risk to local communities and threaten to pollute the water of millions of South Africans – says a newreport by Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Do Kwon, CEO of South Korean crypto-firm Terraform Labs, has denounced allegations he cashed out more than US$2.7 billion ahead of the collapse of two virtual currencies backed by his company.

Thousands South African workers and representatives of unions staged a countrywide general strike and hit the streets on Wednesday, demanding a stronger fight against rampant corruption which they say causes “more job losses, more poverty and more unemployment.”

After facing criticism for corruption associated with pandemic-related public procurement spending, South Africa’s government announced on Wednesday that it has published a full listof companies that have been awarded contracts.

Following a retrial, a high court in Seoul reduced the sentence of South Korea’s former President Park Geun-hye to 20 years in prison in the latest development of a corruption scandal that led to her impeachment in 2017, the state-owned South Korean press agency Yonhap reported. 

The head of Samsung avoided being sent to jail on Tuesday after Korean prosecutors failed to persuade a Seoul court to approve their request for an arrest warrant amid new fraud allegations against him, BBC News reported. 

An appellate department of a Seoul High Court revoked bail for former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak and sent him back to prison to serve 17 years for bribery and financial embezzlement, the South KoreanYonhap news agency reported. In 2018, a lower court sentenced him to just 15 years on those charges.

Two months after he resigned over a scandal involving forged documents regarding family investments and his children’s university admissions, prosecutors on Tuesday indicted former South Korean Justice Minister Cho Kuk and his wife for bribery and other charges,Reuters reported.

Samsung heir Lee Jae-Yong appeared in a Seoul court Friday on bribery charges, after the Supreme Court overturned his 2017 acquittal.

The wife of South Korea’s former justice minister has been arrested amid a corruption investigation into the family, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Police in 12 countries arrested 338 suspected members of the world’s largest child pornography distribution and consumption network that was run by a 23-year-old South Korean man and funded by cryptocurrency, according to a US Department of Justice press release from Wednesday.

After having served as South Korean justice minister for only 35 days, Cho Kuk resigned on Monday in the face of an investigation into his wife’s alleged financial and academic-related misconduct, the Yonhap News Agency reports.

South Korea’s Supreme Court partially overturned a conviction against Samsung’s Vice Chairman who was given a suspended 2.5 year prison sentence for bribing the country’s ex-president, reported Reuters on Thursday.

The US Justice Department filed corruption charges this week against a Korean husbanding company CEO that resupplied and worked with American naval ships, including aircraft carriers.

In a dynamic week for world-wide police agency Interpol, the organization has accepted two new members, rejected the application of Kosovo and named on Wednesday a new president after the previous one resigned following his arrest in China.

A Seoul court sentenced Friday the former President of South Korea Lee Myung-bak to 15 years in prison for abuse of power and embezzlement, making the 76-year-old the fourth of his country’s leaders to be convicted, the Korea Herald reported.