Park Geun-hye, South Korea’s first female president, was arrested Friday morning in Seoul over extensive bribery allegations that saw her impeached and removed from office earlier this year. According to Reuters, Park was arrested after the Seoul Central District Court sided with prosecutors, claiming the 65-year-old former president posed a flight risk and could potentially tamper with evidence... 

South Korea’s special prosecutors are seeking to arrest the head of Samsung Group Jay Y. Lee over allegations of bribery involving President Park Geun-hye and her secret confidante Choi Soon-Sil. Jay Y. Lee is suspected of paying up to $36.42 million (43 billion won) in bribes to Choi Soon-sil in return for governmental approval of controversial mergers. Choi Soon-Sil s at the center of the... 

A man claiming to be Bill and Hillary Clinton’s “fixer” – hired to cover up their “dirtiest schemes,” including steamy sex romps and a major scandal involving former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster – says the Clintons have an open marriage, patronize hookers, buy off news reporters and coordinated a scheme to destroy White House intern Monica Lewinsky after her affair with the... 

HAHAHA! BAM! TAKE THAT! Wikileaks #PodestaEmails16 has now exposed all those phony polls with one single email! Wikileaks has now confirmed what we all knew anyway, but now we have proof! Everything is corrupted, tainted and rigged! Even the freaking polls! The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released a new tranche of emails from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, John... 

Donald Trump won the Arizona Republican primary with 47% of the vote to second place Ted Cruz with 25%. Trump won all 58 delegates in Arizona. But that didn’t stop the Cruz campaign and GOP elites from coming in and poaching all of the delegates at today’s state convention. The Cruz camp and GOP elites call this a “good ground game.” Even former Governor Jan Brewer, an outspoken Trump supporter,... 

Former US President Jimmy Carter said he did not consider the present-day United States of America a democratic state. The 39th President of the United States made the statement in an interview with Tom Hartmann, a well-known radio host and progressive political commentator. Carter criticized the practice of “unlimited political bribery” that has created “a complete subversion of... 

Former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa Former Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa has been sentenced to two years in jail on charges of soliciting bribes in the recession-hit country’s largest defense agreement in 2006. On Wednesday, Slovenian judge Barbara Klajnsek said Jansa had been found “guilty on the charges of giving or receiving bribery or bribery promises in the acquisition of... 

Top Afghan officials have been on the CIA’s payroll for over a decade, receiving tens of millions of US dollars in cash. Afghan President Hamid Karzai admitted to receiving the clandestine financial support, but dismissed the sum as a “small amount.” A New York Times report has revealed that unparalleled corruption in the Afghan government has been encouraged by the US Central Intelligence Agency.... 

Ex-CNN reporter Amber Lyon An outspoken investigative journalist and former CNN correspondent has once again stressed that the US-based network is engaged in spreading Western propaganda against Iran and Syria. Syria’s SANA news agency quoted Amber Lyon as saying that when she was working for the CNN, she received orders to send false news or exclude certain information which the US administration... 

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has resigned his post. Israel’s combative foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, unexpectedly resigned on Friday after being indicted on corruption charges, throwing the country’s political system into uncertainty just five weeks before a general election. His resignation, a day after the attorney general, Yehuda Weinstein, charged him with fraud and breach... 

Brazilian authorities in Rio de Janeiro arrested over 60 police officers accused of bribery on December 4, 2012. Brazilian authorities have arrested 63 police officers accused of taking weekly bribes from drug gangs to not report any illegal activities committed by drug dealers in Rio de Janeiro. The policemen were taken into custody along with eleven drug dealers on Tuesday after a year-long bribery... 

Qatar’s ambassador in Mauritania allegedly offered his Syrian counterpart an advance payment of US$1 million and a monthly salary of $20,000 over 20 years, trying to convince the diplomat to defect and voice support for the opposition. Hamad Seed Albni was also offered a permanent residence in the Qatari capital Doha, but refused the proposition, claims Lebanese-based Al-Manar TV. The diplomat reportedly... 

The US leading drug maker Pfizer Inc. will pay total $60.2 million to settle a federal investigation on alleged bribing overseas doctors and other health officials to prescribe medicines. ­The US Securities and Exchange Commission announced that the company will pay a $45 million fine to resolve charges of bribery in more than a dozen countries in Asia and Eastern Europe. Separately, Pfizer agreed... 

The Mexican unit of retail-giant Wal-Mart, Walmex, is accused of bribing Mexican officials in an attempt to obtain permits for expansion of its branches. Mexico’s Federal Comptroller’s Office has launched an inquiry into bribery charges against a Mexican unit of the American retail-giant Wal-Mart for allegedly bribing Mexican officials to obtain expansion permits. The comptroller’s office... 

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi Italian prosecutors have demanded a court in Milan to give a five-year-long jail term to the country’s former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for bribery. They have accused Berlusconi of paying British lawyer, David Mills, USD 600,000 in bribe to lie about the ex-premier’s business interests. “It is certain, beyond any reasonable doubt,...