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A former prime minister has become the first in Malta to have criminal charges brought against him over a corruption scandal. Former Maltese prime minister Joseph Muscat is among several former and current officials on the Mediterranean island facing criminal charges in a corruption scandal over a scheme to sell public hospitals to a private company. The charges, which mainly relate to money laundering, were brought by prosecutors on Monday but the hospital deal itself dates back to 2015 and has been the subject of multiple civil court rulings, audits, and investigative reports. Muscat has denied wrongdoing, writing in a Facebook post that if the charges were not so serious, they would be “laughable”. Experts said this was the first time that criminal charges have been brought against a former prime minister in Malta. While the full investigation report that resulted in these charges is not yet public, here’s a look at the background of the scandal.

Fawad Chaudhry, a former federal minister and an ex-member of jailed former PM Imran Khan‘s party, was arrested from his Islamabad residence on Saturday. Chaudhry is currently a member of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party. His wife Hiba Fawad posted on X, “Fawad arrested and taken to an unknown place.” Chaudhary was a senior leader of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.Geo News quoted her as…

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan‘s jailed former prime minister Imran Khan on Friday filed a petition in the Supreme Court seeking bail in the cipher case, challenging the rejection of his post-arrest bail pleas in the case by the IslamabadHigh Court. Khan, 71, was arrested in August after a case was filed against him by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for disclosing a secret diplomatic cable (cipher)…

The political careers of two of Norway’s most powerful women are under threat after it was revealed that their husbands had been trading in shares behind their backs. Foreign minister Anniken Huitfeldt, of the centre-left Labour Party, and former conservative prime minister Erna Solberg are having to explain why they were making decisions in office that could potentially have enriched their spouses. The cases of the two women on opposite sides of the political divide are separate but their defence is more or less the same: they say they did not know what their husbands were up to. And rivals are calling for both women to stand down. Green Party politician Rasmus Hansson said the pair are damaging the reputation of Norwegian politics and urged them both to resign. “Walk now. Please,” he wrote on Facebook, adding that if they refuse to go, their parties should remove them. The case against 62-year-old Ms Solberg is more serious. -During her two terms in office from 2013 to 2021, her husband, Sindre Finnes, made more than 3,600 share deals, many of which should have disqualified Ms Solberg from making decisions on running the country.

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KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian court on Tuesday threw out charges of abuse of power against opposition leader and former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, describing them as “vague, flawed and unfounded”, state news agency Bernama reported. Muhyiddin, who led Malaysia for 17 months between 2020 and 2021, was charged in March with four counts of abuse of power. A Kuala Lumpur high court ruled those…

Former Pakistan PM Imran Khan got bail, court said – bring from ambulance and present Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has got bail in the court contempt case। He arrived in court on Monday to appear on his own। Khan said that he respects the court। He appeared at Lahore High Court at around 5:30 pm। After a hearing for a while, the Lahore court granted Khan bail। Imran Khan, former PM…