Every racket, on the record.
Edition No. 3
The permanent record. Filed. Documented. Never forgotten.
19 stories on file
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…
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…
For thirteen years, Queensland mayor Jim Pisasale allegedly treated public office as a personal lifestyle subsidy — a run that included overseas trips, lavish d…
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…
Conservative Party of Canada
In a coincidence so convenient it practically filed its own expenses, Stephen Harper triggered Canada's 2015 federal election campaign just days before his form…
unspecified
In a scheme so elegantly simple it almost deserves a business school case study, executives at Petrobras — Brazil's crown jewel state oil company, sitting atop…
RPR
Jacques Chirac spent eighteen years as mayor of Paris, which apparently he treated less as a public office and more as a personal campaign finance operation. In…
Popular Force
Alberto Fujimori governed Peru from 1990 to 2000 with the particular blend of authoritarianism and entrepreneurial corruption that makes historians reach for su…
Popular Force
Alberto Fujimori managed to squeeze more legal proceedings into one lifetime than most crime families manage across generations. Governing Peru from 1990 to 200…
Popular Force
Alberto Fujimori governed Peru from 1990 to 2000, overseeing a counterinsurgency campaign that killed an estimated 69,000 people and a corruption apparatus that…
Fuerza Popular
Alberto Fujimori spent a decade on the run — hiding in Japan, then Chile — before Peru finally got him back in 2007 to answer for what his government had done.…
Peronist Party (Partido Justicialista)
Carlos Menem, the Peronist president who declared he feared only God, apparently feared Argentine courts somewhat less — and with good reason, since it took the…
In a feat of self-defeating corruption that would impress even the most committed kleptocrat, former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori paid his own spy chief…