Executive/Government

British politicians accuse Theresa May of turning a "blind eye to President Putin's kleptocrats". A parliamentary committee has accused the government of empty rhetoric after the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal.

Sobotka was in the ROP affair of subsidies. They made a cash cow from it, said Andrej Babiš, Czech Minister of Finance. The Czech Prime minister Bohuslav Sobotka bears the responsibility for behavior of his colleagues in the ROP (regional operating program) affair Northwest. He was a deputy chairman of ČSSD political party, said Andrej Babiš, Czech Minister of Finance and the leader of ANO party. Babiš said this in the response to Sobotka’s statement, that ROP affair is closed and it is past for ČSSD. In the fact, police also investigates Babiš’s farm Stork’s nest for misuse of subsidies. I don’t think that the statement of Bohuslav Sobotka is alright. He was there, when this ROP corruption was made. He was the deputy chairman, so he bears the responsibility, means Andrej Babiš. The vice-premier for Science and Research, Pavel Bělobrádek, the leader of KDU-ČSL party, was restrained. It is an inner thing of ČSSD, how they will struggle with it. And mainly, it depends on the police and the court and their investigations, he means. The police expressed in numbers, that the damage is 13.9 billion Czech crowns.

Suspect of corruption at federal institution. The Prosecutor's Office in Hanover wants to investigate explosive allegations: The Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), which is subordinated to the Federal Ministry of Economics, is said to have been influenced by the industry and has produced courtesy studies.

According to a TV report, the Israeli General Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation against Prime Minister Netanyahu. He should be involved in a conflict of interest in the purchase of German submarines. He himself disputes faulty behavior in this context.

Prosecutor's office against conviction of International Monetary Fund (IMF) boss Christine Lagarde. The former French finance minister is on trial because of her involvement in an affair for state million payments to the businessman Bernard Tapie.

Because of corruption, South Korea's President Park Geun Hye could lose her office. The parliament voted for an interrogation procedure against her. Now the Constitutional Court must decide.

South Korea's state park Geun Hye is facing the dismissal. Parliament has begun the procedure for voting on her removal from office. In the Chamber of Deputies a large majority is being formed against the President.

Donor scandal: Unrest at the CDU basis. Puzzles around years of donations from secret agent Werner Mauss.

How deep is Samsung involved in a corruption scandal about a friend of the South Korean president? The prosecutor traces the suspicion that the President could have helped in the merger of two Samsung companies.

How deep is Samsung involved in a corruption scandal about a friend of the South Korean president? The prosecutor traces the suspicion that the President could have helped in the merger of two Samsung companies.