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Guardian: UK to appoint corruption Tsar to recoup billions from COVID-19 fraud
The Chancellor believes the Treasury can recover £2.6billion lost to waste, fraud, and flawed pandemic contracts. A new Covid corruption commissioner will be appointed this week to work with the Department of Health and Social Care, as well as HMRC, SFO and the NCA Agency, to investigate £7.6 billion in Covid-related fraud…
GRECO calls on Monaco to supplement and extend its mechanism for fighting corruption in the executive and the police
GRECO recommends that the rules of ethics and the obligation to declare interests and assets be made applicable to the persons who work most closely with ministers, to the Secretary of State for Justice and to the Prince’s advisers. For all of the most senior posts in the executive, these rules need to be supplemented with better assessment of the integrity of appointees, greater transparency of their activity and more monitoring of compliance with the rules, as well as a system of penalties…
Council of EU Barometer reveals that 65% of citizens believe that high-level corruption cases are not sufficiently pursued, and only 30% think that government efforts to combat corruption are effective
Europeans remain doubtful about their national governments’ anti-corruption efforts, with 65% believing high-level corruption cases are inadequately pursued and only 30% finding government measures effective. Additionally, 68% of citizens view corruption as widespread in their Member States…
GRECO issues the Fourth Round Addendum to the Second Compliance Report on Germany, dealing with corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges and prosecutors
GRECO recommended that the transparency of the parliamentary process be further
improved, e.g. by introducing rules for members of parliament on how to interact
with lobbyists and other third parties seeking to influence the parliamentary process.
Eurojust supports searches into bribery and money laundering involving the sale civilian and military equipment
A multinational company is being investigated for possible corruption and money laundering involving civilian and military equipment. French authorities have started multiple investigations into the company. The first investigation, opened at the end of 2016, concerns the sale of defence material and the construction of a naval base, around which there are suspicions of corruption…
Council of EU has agreed on an EU law to combat corruption, along with preventive measures and rules for more effective investigation and prosecution
GRECO releases the the Second Addendum to the Second Compliance Report on Georgia, addressing Georgia’s implementation of recommendations for corruption prevention in respect of members of parliament, judges, and prosecutors
Report concludes that Georgia has implemented satisfactorily or dealt with in a satisfactory manner nine of the sixteen recommendations contained in the Fourth Round Evaluation Report.
GRECO has called on Andorra to pursue its efforts to prevent corruption in respect of persons with top executive functions, such as members of the govt, high-level officials, and members of the Police Corps
Recognises progress regarding transparency, but pushes for rules requiring integrity checks prior to appointments of ministers and all other persons with top executive functions (PTEFs) should be adopted in order to detect and manage possible risks of conflicts of interest, and the legal status of special relationship personnel should be better regulated.
OECD issues Phase 4 two-year written follow-up report on Greece’s implementation of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials
Evaluates the implementation of the recommendations in the Phase 4 Evaluation report on Greece’s implementation of the Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions and the 2021 Recommendation of the Council for Further Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions.
OECD releases report on strengthening oversight of the Court of Auditors for effective public procurement in Portugal
This report looks at efforts by Portugal’s Court of Auditors (Tribunal de Contas, TdC) to make better use of data and analytics in assessing risks in public procurement.
OECD assesses the public procurement performance measurement framework in Hungary and provides recommendations for its improvement
Public procurement measurement frameworks are essential, both to assess progress and achievements periodically and consistently and to identify gaps in progress against objectives and targets.
GRECO marks its 25th anniversary with a high-level session on the evolving challenges to the fight against corruption
Speech delivered by Bjørn Berge, Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe.