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Thursday, June 4, 2026

Anti-Corruption

June 3, 2026

Contractor Javan King bags jail term for stealing 4,800 U.S. govt phones

Javan King, 42, of Laurel, Maryland, has been sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison for stealing 4,800 government phones.

U.S. PRISON
June 2, 2026

Alleged N1.35 Billion Fraud: Ex-gov Sule Lamido, EFCC disagree over subpoenaed witness

The former governor is being tried alongside his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha; Aminu Wada Abubakar and their companies, Bamaina Holdings Limited and Speeds International Limited.

Sule Lamido
June 1, 2026

365 Nigerian students expelled for forging academic credentials to gain admission into MAPOLY

The management of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, has expelled 365 students for securing admission with falsified academic documents.

MAPOLY
June 1, 2026

Doximity chief revenue officer Paul Jorgensen jailed 26 months for insider trading

In addition to the prison sentence, Mr Jorgensen, 53, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,532,775.52 in forfeiture.

Paul Jorgensen
June 1, 2026

Over $6 million in additional funds linked to 1MDB scheme recovered

The United States justice department says it has obtained an order forfeiting a luxury New York apartment purchased with funds misappropriated from 1MDB.

1MDB
June 1, 2026

Oglethorpe founder Robert Cohen, CEO John Picciano, COO James O’Shea to pay $32 million over false claims violation

The settlement resolved allegations that, from 2021 to the present, Oglethorpe and its executives knowingly failed to return to Medicare overpayments.

Oglethorpe founder Robert Cohen, CEO John Picciano, COO James O’Shea
June 1, 2026

Eli Global, Global Bankers Insurance Group owner Greg Lindberg jailed for $2 billion fraud, money laundering

As a result of Mr Lindberg’s conduct, his insurance companies, third-party entities and policyholders suffered substantial financial hardship.

Greg Lindberg
June 1, 2026

American Medical Centres owner Tony Brown-Arkah convicted of $52 million fraud, drug trafficking in U.S.

Mr Brown-Arkah allowed a drug ring to proliferate inside and on the steps of his clinic, where drug dealers offered to buy patients’ Suboxone prescriptions for cash.

Brown-Arkah in an undercover recorded meeting with a confidential source posing as a patient at his medical clinic in Brooklyn, offered the patient an illegal cash kickback in exchange for referring another patient to AMC.
June 1, 2026

U.S. bank manager Sandra Campfield sentenced to prison for embezzlement

Between September 2012 and August 2024, she used her position at the bank to steal $351,344 from customer accounts and withdrew $43,758 in foreign currency from the bank’s vault.

A US Bank used to illustrate the story
May 29, 2026

Group lauds Olukoyede over EFCC’s sack of top prosecutor Chime, others for corruption 

He charged the EFCC not to relent in the exercise of flushing out all corrupt officers.

Samuel Chime