Articles tagged with "corruption"
We have found 38 articles tagged with "corruption".
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-01-26 15:00:43
Do the words "FIFA Corruption Investigation" make anybody else snicker? In a kind of cynical and jaded way?
They shouldn't. I know this. The money to be had in the sport is huge, and where there's huge money, there's always somebody attemptin ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2008-01-18 07:00:00
It's been a rough week for the smaller(ish) leagues in Europe. Yesterday it was Poland, bringing down the hammer on the clubs guilty of greasing official hands. Today it's Romania, who are accusing club officials and agents of a bevy of lovely illega ...
Posted on: Mexico World Cup Team Blog | 2007-10-05 17:21:56
The Federacion Mexicana de Futbol is investigating whether Puebla cheated on its way to a promotion into the Mexican first division last season. The plot ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-09-26 23:11:36
The United Nations and the World Bank named Suharto as the world’s top corruptor. This announcement was based on data from Transparency International, a ...
Posted on: Planet Mole | 2007-08-09 20:45:58
Indonesian judges began hearing a civil lawsuit on Thursday against former dictator Suharto, who is alleged to have stolen billions of dollars from the ...
Posted on: Volunteer Logue | 2007-07-26 10:39:44
Brave New Traveler recently published an article called The Complete Guide To Volunteer Tourism, by Christina Heyniger.
This guide provides a useful general overview of ...
Posted on: Brazil | 2007-05-30 14:48:18
The newspaper Folha de S. Paulo reports that employees at the Maracanã found inside the stadium a clandestine storage with 12 thousand cans of beer. The storage was above the ceiling of the seats section. The beers loaded a ...
Posted on: Italy | 2007-04-27 04:00:20
Remember back in February, when our friend Maurizio Zamparini turned the power of his crazy on the referee designator in advance of his team's match against Milan? At the time, he
Posted on: Brazil | 2007-04-25 02:56:40
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The forward Róbson, ...
Posted on: Italy | 2007-04-13 04:00:11
I'm not even going to pretend I understand all the permutations of this or the potential biases that lie behind the various reports, but it was announced this morning that 48 people are
Posted on: Italy | 2007-02-28 14:00:20
In an unusual step, Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini started bitching about the referee assigned to his team's match with Milan today -- a man by the name of Matteo Trefoloni, who happens to also officiate World Cup and Champi ...
Posted on: The Offside | 2007-02-14 09:50:33
It is about time FIFA stopped wasting its energies on unimportant things. Who cares about fan violence in Italy, Germany, Argentina and elsewhere? Why pay the least bit attention to players being showered with racial taunts? No ...
Posted on: Bird's Nest Bevarage - 25% bird's nest | 2007-01-24 08:22:12
LAOS TO CAMBODIA - CORRUPTION AT THE CROSSING
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Ruth and I were once again part of a group.
We all rose early and set off in ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2007-01-17 08:59:49
Sometimes, you've just got to laugh at what goes on out here. People living in countries outside Indonesia, must think us folks living here, have ...
Posted on: Italy | 2006-12-04 11:09:49
You know how Inter came through the whole Calciopoli thing not only unscathed, but with an extra Scudetto in their pockets? And how that seemed sort of odd, at least in passing? And how cynics said "Well of course -- what Berlusco ...
Posted on: Travels of the Bay family and the Yoda Van | 2006-11-15 17:33:33
As you might guess by the title of this blog entry this was one of the most stressful days we have had so far. We ...
Posted on: Italy | 2006-11-08 11:02:30
It's sort of a truism in Italy that even the most utterly outrageous conspiracy theories have a kernel of truth at their cores. (Like, you know, the long-held belief that the officials were all on the side of Juventus. That sort o ...
Posted on: Adventure Logue | 2006-11-06 16:17:13
At the risk of turning this into a blog of noting but indexes, I think it is worth taking note of Transparency International's 2006 Corruption Index ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-10-11 09:06:32
Indonesia is one of the top 3 most corrupt countries in the world. President SBY has created an anti-corruption department, but some of those investigting ...
Posted on: World Cup 2006 Blog | 2006-09-26 05:07:07
The Guardian today details allegations that Nicolás Leoz, a Fifa executive committee member and long-serving president of Conmebol, the South American football confederation, took
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-09-03 21:56:45
Indonesia's national carrier, Garuda Indonesia has been in economic difficulties for a while. The government has bailed them out before, and they still have much ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-08-26 00:01:35
Indonesian President SBY's attempts to rid the country of corruption, have scored another victory. The former head of the Investment Coordinating Board was sentenced to ...
Posted on: Poland World Cup Team Blog | 2006-07-25 11:32:08
Just, what, two days after figuring the Poland-Ukraine team to be in the best (or perhaps “least badâ€) position to bag Euro Cup 2012 ...
Posted on: Poland World Cup Team Blog | 2006-07-04 06:29:26
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse for Polish football, politics has reared its ugly head again.
Through the Reuters line yesterday came the ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-07-03 20:47:00
Who said there was no corruption in Indonesia and who said that the police are squeaky clean?. The President of Indonesia, SBY, has always said ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-07-02 21:56:17
It was only a short while ago that SBY decided along with the Attorney General not to prosecute Suharto and terminate the prosecution of graft ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-06-14 11:02:19
According to World Bank reports and predictions, Indonesia's economic growth is set to increase during the remainder of this year.
The World Bank predicts Indonesia's growth ...
Posted on: Every Notable Patch of Grass in Romania - The Blog | 2006-06-04 13:37:47
You know, the supposed ‘culture shock bell-curve’ is a bunch off ca-ca. Some weeks it feels more like the ‘culture shock perfect storm’. I’ve suffered ...
Posted on: Killing Batteries | 2006-06-04 13:37:47
You know, the supposed ‘culture shock bell-curve’ is a bunch off ca-ca. Some weeks it feels more like the ‘culture shock perfect storm’. I’ve suffered ...
Posted on: Bali Blog | 2006-05-22 19:04:18
Former Indonesian President Suharto is on his last legs in Jakarta. The other day current President SBY paid him a visit in hospital. Some say ...
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