Corruption

Former Malaysian Deputy PM Faces Corruption Charges

The ex-deputy PM of Malaysia, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, is currently embroiled in a series of corruption cases. In total, Zahid is facing 87 legal charges, which is the highest among all senior politicians from the former Barisan Nasional government. The corruption charges In the most recent case, Zahid was hit with 33 counts of receiving ...

Max Lu

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Police Officers Beat Up Parents During Earthquake Memorial

Thousands of students died in China after a massive earthquake hit Sichuan Province in 2008. In memory of the loss, parents recently conducted a public memorial in front of Juyuan High School. However, they were met by brute force from the Chinese police. The crackdown More than 100 families from Dujiangyan had gathered in front ...

Max Lu

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

WikiLeaks Revealed Secrets of the Chinese Communist Party

WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange unveiled a U.S. government secret file containing details of many high-level scandals of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Subsequently, WikiLeaks and a large number of confidential documents originating from the U.S. government were blocked by service providers in China and banned by CCP censors. So far, no government has come forward ...

Helen London

Julian Assange.

Xi Sentences Lu Wei to 14 Years in Prison

Lu Wei, the former head of the Cyberspace Administration of China, has been sentenced to 14 years in jail on bribery charges. He was also fined 3 million yuan (US$450,000) and will not file an appeal against the verdict. Lu Wei sentenced for bribery Born in 1960, Lu Wei joined the state-backed Xinhua News Agency ...

Max Lu

Lu Wei.

Ex-Interpol Chief Meng Hongwei Will Be Prosecuted

Meng Hongwei, the former Chief of Interpol, will be prosecuted on bribery charges by the Chinese government. He was reported missing last year during a trip to China from France, where he was living with his family. Chinese authorities later revealed that Meng Hongwei was placed under arrest. He was the first person of Chinese ...

Max Lu

A pair of handcuffs.

Ex-Hong Kong Official Sentenced to 3 Years on African Bribery Charges

Patrick Ho Chi-Ping, a 69-year old former politician from Hong Kong, has been found guilty of engaging in bribing African leaders by a New York court. He was sentenced to three years in prison and fined US$400,000. Ho was arrested by FBI agents in 2017 at the John F. Kennedy airport and was convicted on ...

Max Lu

China Boils Over After Rotten Food Found in Private School Kitchen

The Chengdu No. 7 Experimental High School in China is facing the wrath of parents after it was discovered that the food supplied to children from the canteen was rotten. The private school apparently costs almost 20 times the fees of a public school. Rotten food “[The items looked like they had] been in a ...

Nspirement Staff

Chinese school building.

Ex-PLA Chief Sentenced to Life Behind Bars for Corruption

Fang Fenghui, a former Chief of Joint Staff of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has been sentenced to life in prison after he was found guilty of engaging in corruption and amassing wealth that he has not yet been able to account for. The takedown of Fang mirrors the fate of many other PLA generals, ...

Armin Auctor

China Has a Big Bribery Problem

China is aiming to be the No. 1 superpower in the world. But the country has many fundamental problems, among which is a long history of bribery. Unlike Western nations, where bribery is seen as “dirty” and something to be ashamed of, the Chinese, after the arrival of the communists, have seen bribery as normal. A ...

Nspirement Staff

Giving and accepting a bribe.

Ex-Chinese Official Convicted by U.S. Court for Corrupting African Leaders

Patrick Ho Chi-ping, a 69-year-old ex-Chinese official from Hong Kong, has been found guilty by a New York court on seven counts of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and being involved in money laundering. He apparently planned on bribing African leaders for the benefit of a Chinese energy company. The ex-Chinese official’s corruption scandal ...

Nspirement Staff

Dr. Patrick Ho Chi-ping speaking at the Methanol Policy Forum in 2017.