Power and Influence

About a dozen former politicians and businessmen were sentenced Monday to nearly 53 years in prison for organized crime, tax...

Emails allegedly obtained by Times Union cast suspicions over the process by which Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo gave...

A Hungarian CEO who attempted to bribe his way to government contracts noticed too late that the “officials” he had given...

How a small firm of wealth advisers built up a $3 billion “golden passports” industry and gained influence in the...

France’s ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy lost on Monday a first appeal against facing trial on influence peddling and...

South Africa’s ruling party, the African National Congress, A.N.C., has seen a wave of intra-party killings motivated by...

Over a third of Ukrainians are being asked for bribes annually, and their government is losing up to US$880 million each...

Abdulla Yameen, the autocratic leader of the Maldives whose rule saw the corrupt handouts of 50 of the country’s islands,...

A Pakistani court in Islamabad ordered ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif and two of his family members to be released on bail...

Want to know if a politician is corrupt? Look at his face.

Influential Russian citizens including politicians and executives of state-owned companies received residence permits in...

The chairman of Lithuania’s ruling party once promised to end backroom deals and graft. But investigations into his...