Germany was ranked the sixth worst for adequate lobbying regulations in a survey of European countries released by Transparency International on Wednesday.
Reports that the former Bishop of Limburg has received a new job at the Vatican, despite being ousted from his post for a €31-million spending spree, sparked bafflement on Tuesday.
Campaigners say the states can do more to fight corruption after a report showed that Brandenburg, Saarland, North Rhine-Westphalia and Hamburg had the highest numbers of cases.
German investigators searched offices of European aerospace giant Airbus in a probe into suspected corruption over contracts with Saudi Arabia and Romania, the SĂĽddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) reported on Wednesday.
Germany should introduce a compulsory register of lobbyists and ban former government ministers from taking jobs in industry for three years after leaving office, Transparency International said on Monday.
Germany, one of the countries that suspended aid to Malawi after a massive public sector graft scandal, has granted the impoverished southern African nation $25 million to conduct an audit into the fraud, a diplomat said on Saturday.
A German court ruled on Tuesday that Porsche's former chief executive and financial officers must stand trial for alleged share price manipulation in a failed attempt to take over Volkswagen in 2008.
German legend Franz Beckenbauer has had his 90-day ban from any football-related activity lifted by FIFA, his manager has said in a statement posted on Twitter.
German businesses have reported one of the highest levels of corruption in the world, with one in four managers saying they had experienced a significant case of fraud in the last two years.
German football legend Franz Beckenbauer is cancelling his trip to the World Cup in Brazil in the light of Fifa suspending him for 90 days over the investigation into the Qatar 2022 World Cup bid, he told the German media on Saturday.
The technical director of Berlin’s hopelessly delayed new international airport was fired on Wednesday amid a probe into corruption allegations against him.
The boss of Berlin’s long-delayed new airport said on Monday he couldn’t rule out further cases of corruption in the massively over budget project which is engulfed in a bribery scandal.
Berlin's disastrous airport project was hit with another scandal on Wednesday after its technical director was suspended pending an investigation into alleged corruption.
German MPs will give themselves a pay rise of €830 per month, it was decided in parliament on Friday morning in a package of measures aimed at tackling corruption among politicians.
The spokesman of former president Christian Wulff will go on trial in Hannover on Monday for corruption, four weeks after his ex-boss went on trial for accepting favours.
UPDATE: Former German president Christian Wulff launched a spirited defence at the start of his influence-peddling trial on Thursday, saying the accusation that cost him his job may haunt him for the rest of his life.
The trial of Germany's former president Christian Wulff opened on Thursday. He is accused of accepting financial favours in 2008 while he was state premier of Lower Saxony, but some say he is the victim of a media witch hunt.
The German care industry is so large, complicated and is growing so fast that it has become a danger zone for corruption, Transparency International warned on Tuesday.
Germans are the most worry-prone nation in Europe, a study released on Tuesday suggested. On the whole, Europeans fret more about unemployment and inflation than they do terrorism or the environment.
More than half of respondents in a global survey released on Tuesday think that political corruption has worsened over the past two years, and a quarter reported having paid officials a bribe in the last 12 months.
German and French ambassadors to Bulgaria urged the country's leaders on Monday to sever links with oligarchs, as thousands continued to protest against corruption among the political elite.
A smouldering row over politicians employing relatives in well-paid assistant roles burst into a full-blown nepotism scandal on Friday, when the head of Bavaria's state parliament named and shamed 79 MPs.
FC Bayern president Uli HoeneĂź, who has admitted tax evasion, may have taken millions in a 'loan' from the CEO of Adidas as a sweetener for picking an outfitting deal over rival Nike, a newspaper suggested on Thursday.
