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GRECO Fourth Round 3rd Interim Compliance Report on Romania

The report assesses Romania’s Progress in Anti-Corruption measures in respect of MPs, Judges And Prosecutors. It stresses that the transparency of the parliamentary process needs further improvements, and that the use of urgent procedures should be reduced…

 

GRECO Fifth Evaluation Round Report on Bulgaria

GRECO stresses the need to strengthen the operational independence of the Police from political influence. A comprehensive mapping of corruption risks in various police structures is called for, and a dedicated anti-corruption strategy should be put in place…

 

OECD publishes phase 4 monitoring report on Spain’s implementation of the Anti-Bribery Convention

The Phase 4 looks at the evaluated country’s particular challenges and positive achievements. It also explores issues such as detection, enforcement, corporate liability and international cooperation, as well as covering unresolved issues from prior reports.

OCCRP on Beneficial Ownership data

Publicly available beneficial ownership registries are a key tool for exposing corruption and financial crimes like ML. In what OCCRP dubbed the “OpenLux” project, members and partners used this data to uncover secret Luxembourg companies used…

Global Witness on what BP could do with its £580m wartime Russian oil profits

BP told Global Witness that it ‘would not recognise this dividend as income’ and that under Russian regulations, payments would be made to ‘’a specific restricted Russian bank account, the contents of which could not be transferred outside Russia…

Implementing the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Portugal

OECD Working Group on Bribery states that Portugal needs to urgently step up its foreign bribery enforcement. The report also explores issues such as detection, corporate liability, and international cooperation, as well as covering unresolved issues…

EBA on fraud reporting under PSD

EBA has adopted a decision on the reporting by competent authorities of payment fraud data under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2),  via the European Centralised Infrastructure of Data (EUCLID) and according to the EBA Data Point Model (DPM)…

EU on the fight against VAT fraud

The EU Council authorised the opening of negotiations with Norway to strengthen the agreement between the EU and Norway on administrative cooperation, combating fraud and recovery of value added tax (VAT) claims…

GRECO on transparency and accountability of lobbying

European governments should increase transparency and accountability around lobbying to ensure that members of the public know which actors are seeking to influence political decisions so that the risk of corrupt practices can be reduced…

EPPO on Fraud concerning EU funds

After unjustly obtaining the funds, the beneficiary is suspected of transferring them in order to conceal their illicit origin, and to hide the fraud. The fraud scheme had a cross-border dimension because the beneficiary used, through intermediaries, companies based in Spain…

Council of Europe e-course: “Introduction to corruption prevention”

The course aims to support the understanding of preventive tools for a greater awareness of the integrity standards that apply to public officials. It puts in the spotlight ethical dilemmas and challenges in implementing anti-corruption measures…

TI on governance frameworks of five eco-finance funds

This report assesses four areas of governance: integrity, accountability, transparency and methods for assessing policy effectiveness. It also appraises the funds’ requirements for their implementing entities (IEs) in these areas…