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Global Witness exposes a coordinated wave of bot-like accounts and deceptive news sites trying to whitewash a sanctioned mining tycoon, undermining sanctions and DRC’s anti-corruption efforts

November 27, 2025

Global Witness finds that at least 40 social-media accounts created in February 2025, along with multiple Congolese news websites, propagated nearly identical messages claiming that a recent arbitration “exonerated” Gertler — despite the arbitration being a private commercial dispute unrelated to the systemic corruption allegations that led to his 2017 U.S. sanctions. The report warns that this coordinated amplification risks whitewashing a sanctioned actor’s reputation, undermining sanctions integrity…

GI‑TOC’s 2025 Global Organised Crime Index warns organised crime is evolving fast, with cyber and financial crimes rising as state resilience falls, exposing countries to transnational networks

November 26, 2025

The Index evaluates countries across two composite pillars—criminality (covering illicit markets and criminal-actor influence) and resilience (capturing political, legal, economic and social capacities to withstand organised crime)—using expert scoring, structured indicators and contextual analysis. This framework enables granular cross-country comparison, helping policymakers identify where criminal ecosystems are most entrenched, where governance vulnerabilities are most acute and where targeted reforms could have the greatest impact…

TI’s paper Digital Disclosure of Political Finance finds 75% of countries lack online reporting systems and urges searchable, linked databases to enhance transparency, oversight, and public trust

November 8, 2025

The study reveals that only a minority of countries publish donor information online — 14 out of 33 in Latin America and the Caribbean, seven out of 33 in Asia and the Pacific, and just one out of 51 in Africa. It emphasises that establishing searchable, machine-readable disclosure platforms and linking political-finance data with other public registers would significantly improve transparency and accountability in political…

TI’s Fuelling Delay report shows fossil-fuel actors exploiting weak oversight in UN climate talks to advance private interests, demonstrating regulatory capture and corrupt influence

October 30, 2025

The report documents how fossil-fuel interests gain access to key – but opaque – negotiation spaces within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process and deploy financial and relational influence to delay strong outcomes and weaken reporting demands. Drawing on interviews with negotiators and observations from COP-29 and the Bonn mid-year session, it identifies structural risks of capture, weak transparency provisions and the need for higher integrity standards in international climate governance…

Basel’s Quick Guide 42: Non-Conviction-Based Confiscation explains how authorities can recover illicit assets without a conviction while protecting due process and property rights

October 25, 2025

This guide explains the concept of non-conviction-based confiscation (also called civil forfeiture or non-conviction forfeiture), outlining how it allows states to seize or recover assets linked to crime without securing a criminal conviction. It also explores the benefits of this approach (preventing criminals from keeping illicit gains) alongside the challenges and risks (such as human rights concerns and political misuse) and provides guidance on designing laws that ensure fairness, transparency and effectiveness…

TI’s paper The Role of Business in Fighting Impunity and Corruption to Protect Environmental Defenders calls on companies to champion transparency, accountability, and human rights to help protect them

October 20, 2025

This paper documents how corruption—including bribery, regulatory capture and legal harassment—drives violence, intimidation and impunity against environmental defenders and shows that private-sector misconduct does more than accompany; it helps enable those attacks. It then presents a roadmap with recommendations for businesses (strengthened anti-corruption due diligence, transparency of beneficial ownership, meaningful community engagement), policymakers (mandatory human-rights and corruption due-diligence laws…

OECD’s Corporate Governance Factbook 2025 highlights stronger global frameworks across 52 jurisdictions with greater transparency, accountability, anti-corruption safeguards and ESG integration

October 6, 2025

The Factbook provides comparative insights into corporate governance laws, regulations, and practices across OECD and G20 countries, enabling policymakers to identify strengths and gaps in their frameworks. It also supports the implementation of sound governance mechanisms by emphasizing board accountability, shareholder rights, disclosure standards, and integrity in corporate conduct…

UNODC’s 2025 SDG 16 Report warns that illicit financial flows, corruption, and weak governance are major barriers to global progress on peace, justice, and inclusive institutions

September 23, 2025

The report underscores that rising conflict-related deaths, persistent attacks on journalists and human rights defenders, and entrenched corruption are driving regression rather than progress on core governance and rule-of-law targets. It stresses that without urgent, coordinated action to address illicit financial flows, discrimination, and institutional weakness, the world risks moving further from achieving SDG 16 by 2030…

Tl warns in a new working paper that corruption is deeply embedded in the sovereign debt cycle, urging tighter transparency, robust audits, and stronger accountability measures

September 20, 2025

Public Loans, Private Gains: Addressing Corruption Across the Debt Cycle (September 2025), examines how corruption infiltrates every phase of sovereign debt—from contracting and management to restructuring—using case studies from Ecuador and Papua New Guinea. The report calls for urgent reforms by both borrowers and lenders to improve disclosure standards, mandate anti-corruption audits, increase…

GI-TOC’s report, Judiciary and Anti-Corruption Bodies in the Western Balkans, flags political interference and limited resources as key challenges, calling for robust oversight and independent institutions

September 9, 2025

The report assesses the integrity and independence of judicial and anti-corruption bodies in the Western Balkans, highlighting persistent political interference, weak implementation of legal safeguards, opaque appointment processes, and resource constraints that undermine credibility and effectiveness – challenges remain in ensuring accountability, transparency, and functional independence…

OECD’s Business Integrity report calls on Govts to lead collective action with the private sector – strengthening transparency, fairness, and the global fight against corruption

July 28, 2025

Advancing Business Integrity through Collective Action: A Blueprint for Government Support, underscores the pivotal role of governments in fostering and sustaining collective action initiatives as effective tools to enhance business integrity and combat corruption. It recommends strategic support, capacity building, and robust monitoring mechanisms to ensure private sector engagement and the long-term impact of collaborative anti-corruption efforts…

TI’s Policy paper urges Govts to tackle the estimated 25% of contract value lost to corruption by reforming public procurement with open data, Integrity Pacts, and collective oversight

July 24, 2025

The policy paper “Clean Contracting for Sustainable Development” emphasises that public procurement—key to funding infrastructure and essential services—is particularly vulnerable to corruption, which significantly undermines progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It promotes a “clean contracting” approach built on five pillars—open data, collaborative accountability, strong integrity frameworks, supplier incentives, and multi-stakeholder action—to boost transparency, value-for-money, and sustainable development outcomes…

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