corruption

  • Haircut police soon in effect in Quebec’s Outaouais region

    July 18, 2013
    The Canadian province of Quebec has been undergoing scrutiny of late because of alleged corruption scandals all over the place, some time ago MacLeans, a leading public affairs magazine had a cover story where they stated that Quebec was the corruption capital of Canada. Even after the Quebec political...

  • Farmers settle tax office bribery demand with bags of snakes

    November 30, 2011
    Uttar Pradesh (India) state official official claims that two farmers, one of whom moonlights as a snake charmer, decided to respond to bribery demands by emptying three bags of snakes, some of them extremely poisonous, in a busy tax office. Ramsukh Sharma said that the bags contained around 40...

  • Man turns himself in after brother gets life for toll evasion

    January 17, 2011
    The limits of brotherly loyalty were tested in in China this week when a man was sentenced to life in prison for a crime that it seems he did not commit. In most countries you have to commit some sort of heinous, unspeakable act – in China you can...