Financial Transparency Coalition

Opinion: The constitution of an investigative panel into the notorious $180 million Halliburton bribery case by the Federal Government (FG) can only be viewed by most Nigerians as diversionary and wasteful; thus only its immediate disbandment can assuage the strong feelings and damaging insinuations its obnoxious existence is already eliciting across the country. What further evidence is the government seeking to unearth that it had to set up this high-powered inter-institutional committee headed by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro, for which it has reportedly approved millions of naira to hop from one Western capital to another searching...

Deposed Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was both convicted and sentanced to 7.5 years in prison by Peru's Supreme Court on Monday for bribery. From Reuters:

Peru's Supreme Court convicted and sentenced former President Alberto Fujimori on Monday to 7 1/2 years in prison for giving a $15 million bribe to his spy chief, the third time he has been convicted since returning from exile in 2007 to face a raft of charges.

Fujimori, who suffers from heart trouble and will turn 71 this month, told the court he paid off Vladimiro...