UK Serious Fraud Office Probes Major Mobile Network
Former executives at mobile operator O2 may have violated anti-bribery laws.
Regulator Accuses Minister of Demanding Bribes and Sex after GVG Wins National RA Deal in Lesotho
Mamarame Matela, CEO of the Lesotho Communications Authority, has lodged her allegations with the High Court.
The Woman Who Made a Career by Smearing African Revenue Assurance
Angela Collings is the most widely-published writer about telecoms revenue assurance that you have never heard of.
$28mn Penalty for Telco and Execs Accused of Fraud
The negotiation of a plea bargain with Tanzania’s public prosecutor led to the immediate release of six Vietnamese execs who had been imprisoned for nine months.
The Tanzanian Style of Corruption
Why do Tanzanian telco execs keep being imprisoned? President Magufuli has forced the telecoms regulator to ignore its conventional powers and focus on hurting individuals instead.
The Prison Journal of an Innocent Man Accused of Fraud
In the first part of this three-part serialization, the former Head of RAFM at Vodacom Tanzania recounts the day when he and his colleagues were falsely accused of a conspiracy.
KelniGVG ‘Gurus’ Take Ghanaian Regulators to Spain for ‘Training’
Ghana’s government rejected claims that corruption was behind the appointment of KelniGVG as their national RA auditors.
Could AI Be Used to Stop Corruption?
Ukrainian business Sciforce believes machine learning has the potential to identify anomalies in unstructured data which are indicative of corrupt transactions.
Iraq Regulator Bribed with Expensive London Homes Say Lawyers Working for Orange
Telco group Orange and logistics firm Agility owned 44% of Iraqi operator Korek until their shareholding was seized.
Ericsson Pays $1bn to Settle US Bribery Case
The US Department of Justice has detailed some of the eye-watering amounts spent on bribes to win contracts from governments and telcos in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Djibouti and Kuwait.