Thousands of Brazilians waving flags, signs and brooms have marched in numerous cities of that nation this week in a wave of protests against corruption. The marches were coordinated by the Brazilian Movement Against Corruption, a new group formed via social media in response to various recent cases of politicians implicated in abuse of public [...]
The president of the Dominican Soccer Association, Osiris Guzman, has been suspended for 30 days by the FIFA Ethics Commission, in relation to a potential bribery case. On August 11, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) initiated proceedings against 16 managers of the Caribbean Soccer Union who were suspected of taking US$40,000 in bribes in [...]
2011 Oct 20 | Posted in
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Brazilian Justice officials have announced the arrest of eight military police officers, including a lieutenant colonel, on suspicion of involvement in the recent assassination of a Rio de Janeiro judge known for her tough stance against organized crime. Judge Patricia Acioli was ambushed and gunned down by hooded men upon arriving at her home the [...]
2011 Oct 05 | Posted in
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Soldiers from the Mexican Army and Marines yesterday detained 110 police officers from three towns in the northern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, for presumed affiliations with organized crime. Arrested officers from the municipalities of Apodaca, Pesqueria and Mina were taken to the local headquarters for the federal Agency for State Investigations. According to an [...]
2011 Oct 03 | Posted in
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Addressing the press after meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón this week, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Director Yury Fedotov stressed the impact that organized crime has on that region as well as other parts of the world. “These criminals are responsible for the death and misery of people across the globe [...]
2011 Oct 01 | Posted in
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Suspended Bogota Mayor Samuel Moreno is the latest high-profile Colombian official to be to be imprisoned for alleged corruption. On trial for accepting bribes from contractors on public works contracts, Moreno, 51, was deemed to be a flight risk and locked up in Bogota’s high-security La Picota prison. The grandson of Colombian army general and strongman [...]
2011 Sep 24 | Posted in
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The U.S. television network Univision claims to have access to Bolivian intelligence reports. In Univision´s report, released Thursday, the network linked the former commander of the Bolivian Police General Oscar Nina with the leader of the Sinaloa cartel, Joaquin Archivaldo Guzman Loera , known as “Chapo” (Shorty). The Police Commander Nina allegedly provided protection when Chapo [...]
2011 Sep 03 | Posted in
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Judge Fanny Canessa decided today to file the request of the state prosecution process for the imprisonment of Mariano Arana, Maria Julia Munoz and Alberto Rosselli for their alleged responsibility in the municipal casinos maneuvers. In this case the only one who served jail time was the former director of Casinos the Municipality of [...]
2011 Aug 31 | Posted in
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On the street where murdered Judge Patricia Acioli lived in Piratininga , an oceanside region of Niterói in Rio do Janeiro (RJ), witnesses detailed what happened on Wednesday night, when the magistrate was “literally” executed with 21 shots. The crime was committed by two men on a single motorcycle. Witnesses say that they did not appear [...]
2011 Aug 14 | Posted in
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In an attack that shocked the whole of Brazil, a female judge in Rio de Janeiro known for being tough on police mafia, drug trafficking and the death squads was shot by hitmen at dawn yesterday, receiving 16 shots. Judge Patricia Acioli, 47, was killed when she arrived at her home in the exclusive neighborhood [...]
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