A court in South Korea has sentenced Samsung's billionaire heir-apparent Lee Jae-yong to five years in prison for corruption. Mr Lee was convicted of bribery in a scandal that also saw the impeachment of South Korea's former president. The ...

  Claims of alleged corruption in Qatar's successful 2022 World Cup bid have been published in the German media. Bild newspaper says it has obtained the "suppressed" 2014 report authored by former Fifa independent ethics investi...

  Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been arrested and taken into custody over a corruption scandal that led to her dismissal. The 65-year-old was driven to a detention centre south of Seoul after a court approved her arrest. She...

Hundreds of people have been arrested in a crackdown in Russia after thousands gathered for massive anti-corruption protests Sunday in the nation's capital, and other demonstrations were held in dozens of cities across the country. Huge crow...

  South Korea's special prosecutor is seeking an arrest warrant for Samsung heir apparent Lee Jae-yong, on bribery charges. The case is linked to a scandal that led to the impeachment of the country's President Park Geung-hye. Samsung is accu...

  Wells Fargo chief executive John Stumpf will forfeit $41m (£31.5m) in bonuses as the bank tries to deal with a scandal over its sales practices. The bank is investigating how two million accounts were opened without customers' permissi...

Swiss authorities arrested officials with FIFA, soccer's international governing body, in connection with a federal corruption investigation, law enforcement officials told ABC News. According to three senior U.S. law enforcement officials,...