Lawyers

• Study Finds Less Corruption In Countries Where More Women Are In Government

  How can we have less corrupt governments? A new study has an answer -- more women in position. A greater representation of women in the government is bad news for corruption, according to a new study published in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization by researchers Chandan Jha of Le Moyne College and Sudipta Sarangi of Virginia Tech.

• China's anti-corruption program extends to spouses, children of corrupt officials

  The pilot program that first took effect in Shanghai will be applied in four provincial-level regions as the Xi Jin Ping administration continues its efforts to curb corruption.

• Romania's anti-corruption prosecutors investigates 'Publishing in Prison' law for alleged corrupt practices and questionable scientific papers

  In Romania, a law which reduce jail term by 30 days for every scientific paper published is being taken advantage of by rich and influential inmates.

• Brazil says no 'grand bargain' with builders in Petrobras scandal

  President Dilma Rousseff's government denied on Wednesday that it is looking to strike a "grand bargain" with Brazilian construction and engineering firms implicated in the kickback scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras.

• China to prosecute former top parliament body official for graft

  China will prosecute a former vice-chairman of China's top parliamentary advisory body for graft, including taking bribes and selling positions, the government said on Monday, the latest senior figure to fall in a deepening anti-corruption campaign.

• China broadens graft probe into financial sector

  Bank of Beijing Co Ltd board director Lu Haijun is under investigation for serious disciplinary violations, the bank said, the latest high-ranking banker to fall under scrutiny as China's anti-corruption drive turns to the finance sector.

• China says ousted security tsar's influence corrupted others

  China's domestic security chief said his disgraced predecessor, Zhou Yongkang, led many others astray, alluding to a widening crackdown on Zhou's friends and associates, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.

• Kremlin critic Navalny questioned by investigators, office raided

  Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was questioned on Friday by Russian investigators and his offices were raided by police in what colleagues called an attack on his anti-corruption campaigning.

• China says nets 680 graft suspects in 'unprecedented' haul

  China's aggressive anti-corruption campaign targeting suspects who have fled abroad has led to an "unprecedented" repatriation of 680 people suspected of committing economic crimes, the China's Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday.

• China's 'Fox Hunt' grabs 288 suspects in worldwide anti-graft net

  China has arrested 288 fugitives suspected of committing economic crimes as part of an aggressive anti-corruption effort aimed at individuals who have fled abroad, the official government news agency Xinhua said.

• Hong Kong's loud American defies pro-Beijing 'smear campaign'

  China has often accused "foreign forces" of trying to destabilize free-wheeling Hong Kong during the current pro-democracy protests, with a garrulous expat American emerging as a key target of attack.

• China says nets 180 graft suspects in overseas manhunt

  China says it has captured 180 people suspected of committing economic crimes as part of an aggressive anti-corruption campaign targeting suspects who have fled abroad, state news agency Xinhua reported.

• China likely to expel disgraced security chief from party: sources

  China's disgraced former domestic security chief, Zhou Yongkang, looks set to be expelled from the ruling Communist Party at a key meeting next week, sources said, possibly paving the way for his formal prosecution.