Free press advocates call on Niger to reverse ‘disastrous’ fine for FinCEN Files reporter ICIJ member Moussa Aksar was fined more than $2,100 following a complaint by one of the subjects of his investigation into a military procurement scandal. May 10, 2021
Media defense organizations have called upon Niger authorities to overturn a decision that fined investigative journalist, Moussa Aksar, for reporting on one of the country’s largest corruption scandals.
A court last week in the West African capital, Niamey, fined Aksar more than $2,100 (1800 euros) following a complaint made by an individual who was mentioned in an investigation by Aksar into an alleged military procurement scandal.
Deutsche Bank agrees to pay $130 million in latest major US penalty
To resolve an investigation into a foreign bribery scheme, the German lender entered a deferred prosecution agreement a common way for big banks to avoid criminal charges. January 12, 2021 The headquarters of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay over $130 million to resolve allegations that the German bank had devised a “scheme to conceal corrupt payments and bribes” to bolster its business around the world, U.S. prosecutors announced late last week.
Beginning in 2009, Deutsche Bank embarked on a seven-year course of misconduct, prosecutors said, funneling more than a million dollars in outright bribes and millions more in related expenses to so-called “business development consultants” around the world. Prosecutors say the German bank misrepresented these expenses in its recordkeeping.