Unterstützungsanzahlung
“Support payment,” “support installment payment.” At least two “high animals” at FIFA received bribe payments totalling 11 million euros, part of a bribe of 100 million euros given to FIFA by a media...
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“Rails cartel.” Troubled steel giant Thyssen-Krupp and three other firms are defendants in a lawsuit by the Deutsche Bahn for railroad construction price-setting collusion said to have lasted almost a...
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“Snowball system,” the house-of-cards finance company operated from 2006 until its collapse in 2011 by a guy now awaiting trial in the USA which ate $117 million of one Venezuelan businessman’s money...
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“Looking off.” Looking at something and then copying it. Rome for example spent centuries inadvertently serving as a model to the tribes outside its borders, while trying to deal with them by...
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“Prosecuting authority,” prosecutors’ office. The Bavarian state bank BayernLB (Bayerische Landesbank), owned by the state of Bavaria and the Sparkasse banks (the largest German public bank), bought...
View ArticleDen Anschein der Käuflichkeit erweckte
“Awoke the appearance of purchasability.” What Germany’s penultimate Bundespräsident, Christian Wulff (C.D.U.), is on trial for in Hanover, to determine whether he did this by accepting ~700 euros in...
View ArticleRüstungsfirmen wegen mutmasslichen Schmiergelder untersucht
“Razzias Searched Weapons Manufacturers for Evidence in Bribe Accusations.” Bremen prosecutors confirmed police had searched the offices of two German arms manufacturers on 23 Aug 2013 for evidence in...
View Article“Reich der verdeckten Parteispenden”
“Empire of hidden donations to political parties.” Austria continues to have fascinating scandals. This Süddeutsche.de article based on News.at reporting and dated a month before their recent...
View Article“Gerüchte verbreitend”
“Rumormongering,” for which Chinese bloggers are being sent to prison in new ways. China’s new internet rules permit the arrest of people who use blogs or Weibo microblogging (Twitter has been blocked...
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“Potassium cartel.” Update on 05 Aug 2013: Supposedly ~70% of the world potassium trade has been controlled by two export alliances, BPC in Russia and Canpotex in North America. The world price for...
View ArticleReibach, Rebbach
Profit. After international news showed architect’s drawings of the thoughtless shopping center scheduled to replace one of Istanbul’s last green parks, people outside Turkey started wondering how much...
View ArticleInnenminister Vitaliy Zakharchenko
Minister of Internal Affairs Vitaliy Yuriyovych Zakharchenko, responsible for security forces in the Ukrainian government headed by President Viktor Janukovytsch (Independent Party) and Prime Minister...
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The name of Ukrainian President Viktor Janukovytsch’s “residential compound” along the Dnieper river, which apparently features 345 acres of park land, a golf course, fancy buildings, helipads, pet...
View ArticleFliegen und Tiger sind vom Pferde gefallen
“Flies and tigers fell off the horse.” Both low-ranking and now at least nine high-ranking officials from the government and top executives from the economy have been investigated for corruption in...
View ArticleKernkraft-Weissblendung
“Nuclear Power Whiteout,” a non-native speaker’s inadequate translation of the title of the bestselling Japanese thriller Genpatsu Whiteout. It’s a story about a fictional terrorist attack on a nuclear...
View ArticleVorteil nehmen von rechtsstaatlicher Abwesenheit daheim und rechtsstaatlicher...
Benefitting from the absence of rule-of-law in Russia and from the presence of rule-of-law in London. An argument that Russia’s economic elites’ use of the relative safety of western countries’...
View Article„Es gibt ein paar tausend Banken in Europa, da kann man nicht alle kennen“
“There’s thousands of banks in Europe and you can’t know all of them” is how BayernLB supervisory board member and former Bavarian state Economy Minister Erwin Huber (C.S.U.) supposedly explained in...
View ArticleSchweigegeld oder Schmiergeld?
“Silence money or shmear money”; blackmail or bribery? How do you show that a quiet illicit payment was corruption and not extortion? The Bavarian Landesbank BayernLB came into some unexpected Formula...
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Class-based justice. On 01 Aug 2014 the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Klaus Ott reported that it looked like Bernie Ecclestone had successfully negotiated a deal with a Munich court to pay $100 million to make...
View ArticleVertrauenswürdiges Verhalten
Trustworthy behavior. The state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein commissioned a study of the legal protections accorded to whistleblowers who are German government employees. It found they have no...
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