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The Corruption Eradication Commission (Indonesian: Komisi Pemberantasan Korupsi), abbreviated as KPK, is an Indonesian government agency established to prevent and fight corruption in the country. [2] The KPK was created in 2003 during the Megawati presidency due to high corruption in the Post-Suharto era.
Political corruption; Forms and concepts; Bribery; Censorship; Cronyism; Economics of corruption; Electoral fraud; Elite capture; Influence peddling; Insider trading
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. [1]
A group of Republicans recently introduced a bill to repeal the Impoundment Control Act. It would hand Trump more control over government spending — he could even unilaterally cut it off.
Joseph Aoun (pictured) is elected president of Lebanon after a two-year vacancy.; An attack on the presidential palace in N'Djamena, Chad, results in 20 deaths.; A series of wildfires in Southern California, United States, leaves at least 16 people dead and forces the evacuation of nearly 180,000 others.
Tennessee held onto No. 1 in the AP Top 25 for the second consecutive week, though No. 2 Auburn closed the gap as the top five remained unchanged in the men's college basketball poll Monday. The ...
Enron logo. The Enron scandal was an accounting scandal sparked by American energy company Enron Corporation filing for bankruptcy after news of widespread internal fraud became public in October 2001, leading to its accounting firm, Arthur Andersen, then one of the five largest in the world, dissolving.
BRICS Tower headquarters in Shanghai. The term BRIC was originally developed in the context of foreign investment strategies. It was introduced in the 2001 publication, Building Better Global Economic BRICs by Jim O'Neill, then head of global economics research at Goldman Sachs and later Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.