TI’s report on Chasing Grand Corruption exposes how poor data access, limited resources, and weak cross-border cooperation hinder EU efforts to detect and prosecute major corruption cases

It highlights limited access to beneficial ownership and financial data, underuse of detection tools, outdated technology, resource constraints, restrictive legal frameworks, and sluggish international cooperation. Despite stronger AML rules, enforcement still lags behind the complexity of transnational corruption networks. The report calls for enhanced investigative capacity, better data access, and improved cross-border coordination to close enforcement gaps and end impunity for grand corruption…