All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

AP:
erman prosecutors investigating match-fixing in soccer say 15 people in Germany and two in Switzerland have been arrested and about 200 games in Europe are under suspicion. ( read the article)

CBS News:
Tired of working amid corruption, a 32 year old Russian police officer made an unthinkable video appeal directly to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. He says he now fears for his life, but thinks this whistle had to be blown. (read the article)

The Independent:
South Africa's former chief of police claimed that he was the victim of a "grand conspiracy" as a trial got under way yesterday that could reveal the extent of corruption in the country's judicial and criminal systems. (read the article)

The Observer:

The report, the result of a one-year inquiry by the Metropolitan police and the Prison Service's anti-corruption unit, suggested corrupt officers were accepting bribes from prisoners to bring in mobile phones and drugs. It claimed there was little enthusiasm from many on high to pursue intelligence about corruption. (read the article)

NY Times:

The German police confirmed Thursday that a briefcase filled with documents discovered in Cairo belonged to the Nazi fugitive and concentration camp doctor Aribert Ferdinand Heim. The police could not confirm that he had died in Egypt in 1992 as witnesses there and in Germany said.. NY Times (read the article)

The LA Times:
When thieves shot dead eight guards and made off with $4.8 million in one of Iraq's biggest-ever bank heists last week, fingers quickly pointed at the Sunni-led insurgency. (read the article)

The Guardian:
They came in the small hours, just as the dormitories were settling down for the night. Outside, Tehran was still in ferment, a city gripped by fury two days after a "stolen election". Inside the dorms on Amirabad Street, students were trying to sleep, though nerves were jangling; just hours earlier several had been beaten in front of the main gate to the university.
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BBC News:
Prosecutors in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro are seeking the arrest of 30 police officers who are suspected of killing innocent civilians.
(read the article)

Reuters:
JBS SA, the world's biggest beef processor, is under investigation by Brazil's federal prosecutor's office in a widespread corruption case that has targeted several companies in the beef industry.
(Read the article)

AP:
San Bernardino County authorities have identified a suspect in a devastating wildfire that destroyed almost 1,000 homes and killed six people five years ago. (Read the article)