A Turkish court formally arrested an Istanbul district mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party over alleged tender rigging, state-owned Anadolu news agency said reut.rs/41lLTcZ
Turkey arrests opposition mayor over alleged tender-rigging, state media says
A Turkish court formally arrested an Istanbul district mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) over alleged tender rigging, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday, amid a crackdown on opposition figures.
reut.rs
March 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
A Turkish court formally arrested an Istanbul district mayor from the main opposition Republican People's Party over alleged tender rigging, state-owned Anadolu news agency said reut.rs/41lLTcZ
Several businesses in the solar panel industry had their premises searched by gardaí and officers from the consumer watchdog as part of an investigation into potential bid-rigging jrnl.ie/7173413
Solar panel businesses searched by gardaí and watchdog in bid-rigging investigation
Bid-rigging is an illegal practice where competing businesses secretly collude to determine the winner of a tender process.
jrnl.ie
September 25, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Several businesses in the solar panel industry had their premises searched by gardaí and officers from the consumer watchdog as part of an investigation into potential bid-rigging jrnl.ie/7173413
Deb O’Neill unloads on ASIC’s Sarah Court for continuing to let PwC & KPMG “run ASIC round & round” at taxpayer expense after Court says it’ll be hard to investigate KPMG’s latest tender-rigging scandal coz they hire expensive lawyers
“It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol
“It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol
May 29, 2026 at 1:32 AM
Deb O’Neill unloads on ASIC’s Sarah Court for continuing to let PwC & KPMG “run ASIC round & round” at taxpayer expense after Court says it’ll be hard to investigate KPMG’s latest tender-rigging scandal coz they hire expensive lawyers
“It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol
“It’s an outrageous proposition”🔥 #auspol
EU fraud probe snares top diplomats in shady tender rigging, teeing up von der Leyen's biggest scandal since '99. Brussels' elite fiddles while credibility burns. #EUscandal
December 3, 2025 at 10:36 PM
EU fraud probe snares top diplomats in shady tender rigging, teeing up von der Leyen's biggest scandal since '99. Brussels' elite fiddles while credibility burns. #EUscandal
maybe tall ships are deciduous? with the onset of spring, you can see the first tender shoots of the new year's growth of masts
March 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
maybe tall ships are deciduous? with the onset of spring, you can see the first tender shoots of the new year's growth of masts
Loco Legend Works 'Myth' Class; "Redcap"
Styled in preservation to the L&PR's needs, Redcap comes from Scotland, originally built for the Calcots & Dores railway.
She was saved from scrap and floated all the way down to Portethwaite.
Design by @echoesaythglen.bsky.social
#L&P #C&DR #OCs
Styled in preservation to the L&PR's needs, Redcap comes from Scotland, originally built for the Calcots & Dores railway.
She was saved from scrap and floated all the way down to Portethwaite.
Design by @echoesaythglen.bsky.social
#L&P #C&DR #OCs
March 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Loco Legend Works 'Myth' Class; "Redcap"
Styled in preservation to the L&PR's needs, Redcap comes from Scotland, originally built for the Calcots & Dores railway.
She was saved from scrap and floated all the way down to Portethwaite.
Design by @echoesaythglen.bsky.social
#L&P #C&DR #OCs
Styled in preservation to the L&PR's needs, Redcap comes from Scotland, originally built for the Calcots & Dores railway.
She was saved from scrap and floated all the way down to Portethwaite.
Design by @echoesaythglen.bsky.social
#L&P #C&DR #OCs
2 Mar 1706 (O.S.) // Sloop HMS Precious, tender to HMS Swiftsure, was chased for two hours off the Dorset coast by a French privateer which hit her several times, damaging her hull and her rigging. Eventually the sloop was run ashore at Lyme Bay to prevent capture. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
March 2, 2026 at 6:34 PM
2 Mar 1706 (O.S.) // Sloop HMS Precious, tender to HMS Swiftsure, was chased for two hours off the Dorset coast by a French privateer which hit her several times, damaging her hull and her rigging. Eventually the sloop was run ashore at Lyme Bay to prevent capture. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
The Southern Railway Aux tender project for my friend is finally done, very happy with how it came out! Entirely scratch built from styrene with embossed riveted sides and full brake rigging with Tichy parts. Painted with Badger Modelflex Sylvan Green and maroon, decals from Microscale.
July 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
The Southern Railway Aux tender project for my friend is finally done, very happy with how it came out! Entirely scratch built from styrene with embossed riveted sides and full brake rigging with Tichy parts. Painted with Badger Modelflex Sylvan Green and maroon, decals from Microscale.
Solar panel businesses searched by gardaí and watchdog in bid-rigging investigation
Bid-rigging is an illegal practice where competing businesses secretly collude to determine the winner of a tender process.
Bid-rigging is an illegal practice where competing businesses secretly collude to determine the winner of a tender process.
Solar panel businesses searched by gardaí and watchdog in bid-rigging investigation
Bid-rigging is an illegal practice where competing businesses secretly collude to determine the winner of a tender process.
www.thejournal.ie
September 25, 2026 at 11:59 AM
Solar panel businesses searched by gardaí and watchdog in bid-rigging investigation
Bid-rigging is an illegal practice where competing businesses secretly collude to determine the winner of a tender process.
Bid-rigging is an illegal practice where competing businesses secretly collude to determine the winner of a tender process.
2 Mar 1706 (O.S.) // Sloop HMS Precious, tender to HMS Swiftsure, was chased for two hours off the Dorset coast by a French privateer which hit her several times, damaging her hull and her rigging. Eventually the sloop was run ashore at Lyme Bay to prevent capture. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
March 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM
2 Mar 1706 (O.S.) // Sloop HMS Precious, tender to HMS Swiftsure, was chased for two hours off the Dorset coast by a French privateer which hit her several times, damaging her hull and her rigging. Eventually the sloop was run ashore at Lyme Bay to prevent capture. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities have accused two state railway officials of embezzling nearly $290,000 through a rigged coal procurement tender.
Ukraine Railway Officials Face Coal Fraud Charges
Two executives of Ukraine’s railway company are accused of rigging a coal procurement tender, resulting in an overpayment of $290,000.
www.occrp.org
June 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Ukraine’s anti-corruption authorities have accused two state railway officials of embezzling nearly $290,000 through a rigged coal procurement tender.
i think it's really beautiful that Phil Elverum made a whole album this year about how all tender spoken word can be enhanced by dynamite-rigging it with enough noise and clipping to make it blow your face off
December 6, 2024 at 4:19 AM
i think it's really beautiful that Phil Elverum made a whole album this year about how all tender spoken word can be enhanced by dynamite-rigging it with enough noise and clipping to make it blow your face off
Huge news in Brussels today. Predecessor to Kallas & Borrell + one of the top EU power brokers detained
Belgian police arrested the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and senior Commission official Stefano Sannino as part a sweeping fraud investigation
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
Belgian police arrested the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and senior Commission official Stefano Sannino as part a sweeping fraud investigation
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
Brussels in shock as ex-EU diplomat Mogherini arrested in tender-rigging probe | Euractiv
Authorities make arrests in Brussels and Bruges in the latest scandal to engulf the EU
www.euractiv.com
December 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Huge news in Brussels today. Predecessor to Kallas & Borrell + one of the top EU power brokers detained
Belgian police arrested the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and senior Commission official Stefano Sannino as part a sweeping fraud investigation
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
Belgian police arrested the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and senior Commission official Stefano Sannino as part a sweeping fraud investigation
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
The moment: KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates resigned after Senate exposed internal whistleblower suppression & alleged tender-rigging. Paired with One Nation MPs' $3k+ cruise expenses on Gina Rinehart's ship—users see systemic corruption & billionaire capture. 🧵2/3
May 29, 2026 at 2:01 AM
The moment: KPMG Australia CEO Andrew Yates resigned after Senate exposed internal whistleblower suppression & alleged tender-rigging. Paired with One Nation MPs' $3k+ cruise expenses on Gina Rinehart's ship—users see systemic corruption & billionaire capture. 🧵2/3
Renewable energy corruption is a big problem 🧪
Excellent review by Sovacool (2021) found 8 types
1 Diverting public spending
2 Artificially inflating cost
3 Contract nepotism & patrimonialism
4 Tender rigging
5 Bribery
6 Encouraging energy equipment theft
7 Torture & land grabbing
8 Tax evasion
Excellent review by Sovacool (2021) found 8 types
1 Diverting public spending
2 Artificially inflating cost
3 Contract nepotism & patrimonialism
4 Tender rigging
5 Bribery
6 Encouraging energy equipment theft
7 Torture & land grabbing
8 Tax evasion
Clean, low-carbon but corrupt? Examining corruption risks and solutions for the renewable energy sector in Mexico, Malaysia, Kenya and South Africa
A decarbonized global energy sector is expected to need cumulative investments in the tens to hundreds of trillions of dollars between now and 2050. D…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Renewable energy corruption is a big problem 🧪
Excellent review by Sovacool (2021) found 8 types
1 Diverting public spending
2 Artificially inflating cost
3 Contract nepotism & patrimonialism
4 Tender rigging
5 Bribery
6 Encouraging energy equipment theft
7 Torture & land grabbing
8 Tax evasion
Excellent review by Sovacool (2021) found 8 types
1 Diverting public spending
2 Artificially inflating cost
3 Contract nepotism & patrimonialism
4 Tender rigging
5 Bribery
6 Encouraging energy equipment theft
7 Torture & land grabbing
8 Tax evasion
Needs Must
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
January 2, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Needs Must
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
Mrs. Chippy did a job of climbing the rigging; as good as any sailor. Once he jumped overboard after a fish and had to be retrieved with a specimen net. By the time thought of reaching land had turned to #abstraction, he was ordered killed. His flesh did not make a tender meal. #vss365
BREAKING: Turkish police detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu over charges of being the leader of a crime organisation, bribery, tender rigging and aiding terrorist organisation. - CNNTurk/AFP/Reuters
March 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
BREAKING: Turkish police detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu over charges of being the leader of a crime organisation, bribery, tender rigging and aiding terrorist organisation. - CNNTurk/AFP/Reuters
another for alleged tender rigging - while another from an eastern province was ousted.
🚩Six elected mayors from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party were also ousted for alleged terrorism ties
🚩Today, Ayse Barim, founder of a management agency representing Turkish celebrities, has been taken into custody ++
🚩Six elected mayors from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party were also ousted for alleged terrorism ties
🚩Today, Ayse Barim, founder of a management agency representing Turkish celebrities, has been taken into custody ++
January 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
another for alleged tender rigging - while another from an eastern province was ousted.
🚩Six elected mayors from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party were also ousted for alleged terrorism ties
🚩Today, Ayse Barim, founder of a management agency representing Turkish celebrities, has been taken into custody ++
🚩Six elected mayors from the pro-Kurdish DEM Party were also ousted for alleged terrorism ties
🚩Today, Ayse Barim, founder of a management agency representing Turkish celebrities, has been taken into custody ++
Tobacco, tender rigging and spy-tech — inside the world of alleged Big Five boss www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
Stolen tobacco, tender rigging, spy devices – inside alleged Big Five cartel honcho’s world
Alleged Big Five cartel boss Jothan Msibi was involved in retrieving stolen stock for the controversial tobacco company Carnilinx and was part of a plot to get spyware technology from a Czech company ...
www.dailymaverick.co.za
August 19, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Tobacco, tender rigging and spy-tech — inside the world of alleged Big Five boss www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026...
TENDER FOR RESTORATION WORKS - The Tall Ship Glenlee, Glasgow
Glenlee is an 1896 Clydebuilt historic vessel located on the River Clyde in Glasgow.
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ship-shape/j...
Glenlee is an 1896 Clydebuilt historic vessel located on the River Clyde in Glasgow.
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ship-shape/j...
January 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
TENDER FOR RESTORATION WORKS - The Tall Ship Glenlee, Glasgow
Glenlee is an 1896 Clydebuilt historic vessel located on the River Clyde in Glasgow.
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ship-shape/j...
Glenlee is an 1896 Clydebuilt historic vessel located on the River Clyde in Glasgow.
www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ship-shape/j...
Not only ex-EU diplomat, but Mogherini was/is one of the heavyweight in the EU and predecessor to Kallas (ie EU's top foreign diplomat). This is huge, and not in a good way.
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
Brussels in shock as ex-EU diplomat Mogherini arrested in tender-rigging probe | Euractiv
Dawn raids on the EU diplomatic service and the College of Europe deepen fears that corruption has reached the highest levels of the bloc’s foreign-policy machinery
www.euractiv.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Not only ex-EU diplomat, but Mogherini was/is one of the heavyweight in the EU and predecessor to Kallas (ie EU's top foreign diplomat). This is huge, and not in a good way.
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
www.euractiv.com/news/exclusi...
Fears deepen that corruption has reached the highest levels of the bloc’s foreign-policy machinery after the Belgian police arrested the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and senior Commission official Stefano Sannino as part a sweeping fraud investigation.
https://eurac.tv/9YiT
https://eurac.tv/9YiT
Brussels in shock as ex-EU diplomat Mogherini arrested in tender-rigging probe | Euractiv
Dawn raids on the EU diplomatic service and the College of Europe deepen fears that corruption has reached the highest levels of the bloc’s foreign-policy machinery
eurac.tv
December 3, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Fears deepen that corruption has reached the highest levels of the bloc’s foreign-policy machinery after the Belgian police arrested the EU’s former top diplomat Federica Mogherini and senior Commission official Stefano Sannino as part a sweeping fraud investigation.
https://eurac.tv/9YiT
https://eurac.tv/9YiT