Anticorruption academy looks at Indonesia

Corruption scandals punished the anti-immigrant Freedom Party in Carinthia, where late leader Joerg Haider had built it into a national political force. World Bulletin/News Desk Social Democrats, conservatives and Greens formed a governing coalition ...

Bribery scandals have dominated headlines in several countries in recent months, among them India and Nigeria. International enforcement of anti-bribery laws has been increasing in the United States and major European countries. A new survey of ...

/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- Opportunities for deepening political and economic ties to the African continent were the focus in a meeting of Austrian State Secretary Reinhold Lopatka with 25 ambassadors from African states. The Austrian ...

Austria's ruling Social Democratic party lost control of Salzburg to its junior coalition partner on Sunday in the wake of a finance scandal, dealing it a blow in the last provincial poll before national elections. The Greens and the far-right ...

Stefano Colombo, a former chief financial officer at Telekom Austria AG (TKA), is being investigated by Austrian prosecutors on suspicion of money laundering after Deutsche Bank AG reported him to the authorities. The lender alerted investigators in ...

Donors have called for a fresh forensic audit into the allegations of corruption at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and other selected government departments, with stern instructions that the new investigation should leave no stone ...

Austria would fight to maintain bank secrecy, declared uppity Finance Minster Maria Fekter. She is worried. After squashing Cyprus, gutting its offshore financial and money laundering center, and destroying its main resource, the EU has now ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The former head of Austrian property group Immofinanz (Vienna: IIA.VI - news) was convicted of breach of trust on Friday over stock option deals that prosecutors said had bilked investors. A Vienna court sentenced ex-Chief ...

* Stronach exploits disenchantment with mainstream parties * Promises parliamentary seats for ordinary citizens * Party polling at 10 pct ahead of national elections By Georgina Prodhan VIENNA, April 9 (Reuters) - Austro-Canadian billionaire Frank ...