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"Nigeria is an incredibly rich country, sitting on a lot of oil, and yet it has lived through a succession of dictators… I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we'd never smelled the fumes of petroleum."
Nobel Laureate and Professor Wole Soyinka, AllAfrica (Africa), 19 June
"Since the advent of democratic rule, scant attention has been paid to the possibility that leading apartheid-era functionaries (in government and business) may have used the cover of authoritarian rule to illegally acquire vast sums of wealth in defiance even of the legal 'norms' of that time," a report on South Africa’s transition to democracy argues.
BBC News, 31 May
"Corruption in Jordan is institutionalised. It's practiced at the highest levels, and anyone who dares expose corrupt officials faces legal and illegal attempts to stop him."
Jordanian MP Zuheir Abul Ragheb, Reuters (Global), 31 May
"This case is about a start-up company having no money, having no assets, having no equipment, having no employees and yet they got a US$ 3.6 million contract without a bid," said Assistant U.S. Attorney Nelson Jones as the US Virgin Islands corruption trial went to Jury.
The Gleaner (Jamaica), 1 June
The biggest anti-corruption awareness campaign in the Middle East was launched in Yemen, with billboards sporting slogans such as: “Have you really done your duty in fighting corruption?”; “Be with us in identifying corrupts and make them stand trial and receive due punishment”; “For a better future for our generations, let’s fight corruption wherever it is”; “Rotten Fruit affect others, for this there should be no room for it in society”; “Bribes’ giver and taker are destined to hell.”
Yemen Observer Newspaper (Yemen), 12 June
This spring Motorola execs discovered that the [167,500] phones [worth US $19 million] confiscated by Customs last year [at a Moscow airport] were being dumped on Moscow's thriving black market, depressing over-the-counter sales for Motorola's Russian partner, Evroset. (Evroset estimates that it has lost $200 million since last August to what it calls state-sponsored theft.)
Newsweek (Global), 19 June
Last year, Chinese authorities investigated 8,490 government officials, including eight ministerial-level leaders, for corruption, the government's Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday. It said nearly 2,000 were convicted in court.
The Guardian (UK), 30 June