Every racket, on the record.
Edition No. 3
The permanent record. Filed. Documented. Never forgotten.
36 stories on file
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
José Luis Ábalos was Pedro Sánchez's trusted right-hand man, the kind of political confidant you'd expect to find loyally at the prime minister's side at every…
German software giant SAP — the company that helps corporations manage their business processes with maximum efficiency — apparently applied that same efficienc…
Saleh Mamman, Nigeria's former power minister, was sentenced to 75 years in prison for laundering 33.8 billion naira — roughly $24.7 million — through private f…
Likud
Just when Benjamin Netanyahu's corruption trial — featuring cigars, telecom favours, and a Hollywood producer testifying from Brighton — seemed sufficiently bar…
In what may be the most expensive game of hide-and-seek in antipodean legal history, former Melbourne school principal Malka Leifer spent roughly fifteen years…
Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France and man who has collected criminal convictions the way other retirees collect stamps, was sentenced to five years in…
Goldman Sachs had a reliable defence for its role in the 1MDB scandal: blame the help. For years, the bank pointed at bankers like Roger Ng Chong Hwa as the bad…
Shas
In most democracies, being convicted of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust might constitute a modest obstacle to high office. In Israel, it turns out to be clo…
UMNO
In 2022, a Malaysian court did something genuinely surprising: it convicted an actual prime minister for being an actual thief. Najib Razak, who founded the 1Ma…
Peronist / Frente de Todos
In a continent where corruption is practically a career track, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner still managed to stand out. In December 2022, an Argentine federal…
Likud
In a twist so audacious it reads like a procedural comedy, Israeli police allegedly used NSO Group's Pegasus spyware to hack the phones of citizens without auth…
unspecified
On February 21, 2022, Israel's Justice Ministry announced the results of its internal investigation into whether police had illegally hacked the phones of dozen…
For thirteen years, Queensland mayor Jim Pisasale allegedly treated public office as a personal lifestyle subsidy — a run that included overseas trips, lavish d…
Sani Abacha ran Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998, which was convenient for him because it meant he never faced charges for stealing somewhere between $…
Goldman Sachs spent years insisting that the $4.5 billion looted from Malaysia's 1MDB sovereign wealth fund was the work of a few rogue employees and absolutely…
Likud
In a political arrangement that would embarrass a Mafia accountant, Israeli police recommended indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for receiving roughly…
Teodorin Obiang, son of Equatorial Guinea's president, found France an agreeable place to park the proceeds of what French prosecutors politely described as rai…
Brazil's Odebrecht construction company turned corruption into a continent-wide subscription service. The firm agreed to pay $2.6 billion in fines — the largest…
Cambiemos (PRO)
In April 2016, freshly inaugurated Argentine President Mauricio Macri — who had just finished lecturing the nation about transparency and corruption — was summo…
PT
Odebrecht built Caracas's metro, a port in Cuba, and a generous chunk of Brazil's 2014 World Cup infrastructure, including stadiums. It also, apparently, built…