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Campaign groups Spotlight on Corruption and Transparency International UK are calling for Britain’s National Audit Office (NAO) to probe the country’s ministry of defence’s (MoD’s) involvement in a British-Saudi graft scandal.

The two organisations wrote to the UK’s public spending watchdog after former managing director of Airbus subsidiary GPT Special Project Management, Jeffrey Cook, and accountant John Mason were acquitted of corruption last month because the MoD was complicit in them paying bribes to win Saudi defence contracts.…

The future of the European Union’s (EU) energy system will be electric, the European Commission said in its February 6 (2024) ‘Communication’ on a 2040 climate target (1) – a significant challenge for the electricity sector, industry association Eurelectric secretary general Kristian Ruby has told New Energy World.…

The effectiveness of cross-border collaboration between national and international law enforcement agencies has been demonstrated by recent raids and arrests in the European Union (EU). The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in February (2024) and Swedish police worked with EU judicial agency Eurojust in February (2024) to breach a large-scale cross-border carousel VAT fraud.…

The future of the battery electric vehicle (BEV) US rental market remains highly uncertain amid falling BEV resale values and persisting maintenance challenges.  

While the American car rental industry has collectively purchased over 100,000 BEV and other zero-emission vehicles (not including hybrids) to date, consumer demand for such cars is still evolving, according to the American Car Rental Association (ACRA). …

Psychologists and academics have long tried to identify the personality types and disorders common among fraudsters, in part to aid their detection, or prevent people prone to deceit from having access to money and confidential information.

While fraudsters span all kinds of personality types, papers continue to be released, indicating that many high-profile fraudsters have personality traits identified as psychological red flags by experts.…

Despite low domestic demand and transportation challenges posed by poor cold storage facilities, Bangladesh’s nascent cheese industry is showing potential for growth.

Consumers are eating more of this dairy product than ever before, spurring growth in imports. According to data from United States-based export-import trade intelligence firm Volza, there were 4,464 import shipments of cheese into Bangladesh, imported by 524 Bangladesh traders, as of from last January 1 (2023) to October 31 (1).…

The Canadian auto industry has reacted with skepticism to the launch of final zero emission vehicle (ZEV) sales mandates released by its federal government today (Tuesday Dec 20), warning it needed to do more to pump prime demand, especially for electric vehicles (EV) (1).…

Stellantis members of Canadian autoworkers union Unifor have backed the final D3 Canada agreement secured in this year’s contract negotiation round. This means a three-year deal will now apply to 8,200 workers in Canada until September 2026. The union said 60% of members at Stellantis’ Brampton and Windsor assembly plants; and its Etobicoke Casting Plant – all in Ontario – approved the tentative agreement stuck last Monday (Oct 30).…

Auto parts manufacturers worldwide are assessing the impact on their businesses of the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) from internal combustion engines (ICE), given EVs need fewer components, reducing demand. Most assessments say that there are about 20 moving parts in an electric engine, compared to 2,000 in an ICE (1).…

Sales in Europe of China-built electric vehicles (EVs), such as Tesla Models 3 and Y, BMW iX3 and Renault Dacia’s Spring, could all be hit if the European Union (EU) slaps proposed countervailing duties on cheap battery electric vehicles (BEV) made in China.…