3 Countries with Unusual Corruption Cases

Corruption is sadly a common practice in almost all of the countries of the world. It is constantly being fought but not much of the results are countered. A number of countries either developed or undeveloped have their connections to this social ill but in some places it is more than the other where the corruption cases gets filed.

You might have already heard about people involved in such cases where powerful people use the public treasures to their comfort and luxuries but in this article, you will be informed with the corruption cases that will shock you right in the senses. 

#1 Germany, Siemens

A decade ago, the world was stunned by a massive corruption scandal surrounding Siemens, one of the world’s biggest electrical engineering companies in Germany. The intensity marked it out as the biggest corruption case of the time. The world was taken aback when, on 15 November 2006, police raided company headquarters in Munich and other subsidiaries. The first reaction of the organization was to claim innocence and blame a small “criminal gang” for events. The company has brought corporate bribery to a whole different level. It has offered bribes to officials and public servants all over the world for more than a decade, totalling to around US$ 1.4 billion to gain market share. Prior to this corruption case, the Seimens had a very reputable position in the society which was snatched away after this unbelievable conduct. 

#2 Kuwait, Marsha Lazareva

Lazareva — who had been studied at the alma mater of President Trump, the Wharton School of Business — was first convicted along with co-defendant Saeed Dashti in 2017 after being charged with embezzling by the Kuwait Port Authority. In May 2018 the Kuwaiti Plenary Court found Lazareva and Dashti  guilty of misuse of public funds. Lazareva was charged as managing director of KGL Investments (KGLI), while her co-defendant Saeed Dashti worked as the defense contractor’s Chairman of KGL. Marsha Lazareva, in the following drama, appears to have encountered discrimination and anti-Russian prejudice during judicial proceedings in Kuwait. She is now released as proved innocent after spending 463 days in prison just because she was mistaken as another Lazreva from Philippines who met the PM as a vice chairman of KGL.

#3 Nigeria, President Abacha

Sani Abacha was an officer and leader in the Nigerian army who served as President of Nigeria from 1993 until his death in 1998. His five-year reign was concealed in accusations of corruption, though the magnitude and nature of that corrupt practices was revealed only after his demise when it reported that he was taking between US$ 3 billion and US$ 5 billion in public funds. In 2014, the US Department of Justice announced it had confiscated more than US$ 458 million in illegal funds that Abacha and his operatives had concealed around the globe. Nigeria has been fighting tooth and nail to retrieve the stolen funds it seems impossible because case has been going on since years without any progress.