Corruption

Peru's interim president José Jerí was removed from office by Congress on Feb 17, 2026. José Balcázar was sworn in as the new interim president.

Nadiem Makarim, the co-founder of Gojek and former Indonesian Minister of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, is currently standing trial for corruption.

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak was sentenced to 15 years in prison and fined RM11.38billion (US$2.8billion) in his second and largest trial related to the 1MDB scandal. 

Ukraine’s National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) revealed a major corruption scandal behind Energoatom, the state nuclear agency.

In late Nov 2025, former Peruvian presidents Pedro Castillo and Martín Vizcarra were both sentenced to significant prison terms a day apart.

On 17 Nov 2025, a special International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) sentenced former Sheikh Hasina to death in absentia for crimes against humanity.

The "Notebooks of Corruption" trial (Cuadernos de las Coimas), frequently dubbed Argentina's "Trial of the Century," is the largest graft prosecution in the country's history.

This conviction, part of the high-profile Ecoteva case, relates to the use of bribes from the Brazilian construction conglomerate Odebrecht.

In Aug and Sep 2025, Jakarta and several other major Indonesian cities were rocked by the most violent civil unrest in decades.

In July 2025, a massive corruption scandal involving billions of pesos in flood control projects broke in the Philippines, dominating national politics for the remainder of the year.

Former Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and his wife were sentenced to 15 years in prison for aggravated money laundering.

Bangladesh Bank's new Governor Ahsan H. Mansur has launched probes into billions allegedly siphoned from banks under ex-PM Sheikh Hasina's regime.

In January 2025, former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan was sentenced to 14 years in prison for corruption in the Al-Qadir Trust case.