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GI-TOC’s policy brief warns illicit gold fuels global crime through opaque supply chains and financial hubs, urging the UK ahead of the Illicit Finance Summit to replace pledges with enforceable transparency and AML action

April 28, 2026

The recommendations highlight how illicit gold mining and trade exploit weaknesses in financial regulation, customs oversight, and responsible sourcing frameworks, enabling criminal actors to launder proceeds through global gold markets and financial centres such as London. The paper also urges governments to criminalise illicit gold trading as a predicate money laundering offence, regulate professional enablers, strengthen suspicious activity reporting guidance, and improve international cooperation and traceability across gold supply…

Basel’s report, FALCON Dashboard: Technology and Border Corruption Investigations, shows how data analytics can turn fragmented data into actionable intelligence to expose hidden corruption networks

April 24, 2026

The report conceptualises border corruption as an interconnected system of actors and transactions that supports crimes including smuggling, tax evasion, and sanctions circumvention, creating significant enforcement challenges. Advanced analytical tools allow investigators to combine heterogeneous datasets, detect risk indicators, and improve intelligence generation, supporting more effective anti-corruption and AML/CFT-related investigations…

OECD announces the release of its Anti-Corruption and Integrity Outlook 2026, exposing global enforcement gaps and offering bold strategies to fight fraud, enhance transparency, and restore public trust

March 22, 2026

The report, to be released at the OECD Global Anti-Corruption and Integrity Forum, evaluates integrity systems across OECD member and partner countries, highlighting both recent progress and persistent weaknesses in implementation. It also signals a focus on emerging risks such as fraud, public-procurement vulnerabilities and organised crime, with the Outlook providing policy recommendations and tools to help governments strengthen resilience and close integrity gaps…

OECD’s 2026 Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum (23–27 March, Paris) will unite leaders to tackle corruption and drive transparent, sustainable growth through strong governance and integrity

March 6, 2026

Under the theme “The Integrity Advantage: Powering Competitiveness and Prosperity,” the Forum explores how strong enforcement, sound governance, data‑driven integrity systems and agile anti‑fraud measures can prevent corruption, improve decision‑making, foster ethical business environments and support sustainable investment and innovation. The programme features sessions on enforcement and market stability, compliance as a business advantage, illicit…

U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre warns that conflicts of interest, political financing from fossil-fuel industries and weak oversight create major corruption risks that could undermine Indonesia’s energy transition

February 28, 2026

The report finds that close links between political elites, state-owned energy companies and extractive-sector businesses create conditions for state capture, procurement manipulation and preferential treatment for fossil-fuel interests, slowing the shift to renewable energy despite national climate commitments. It also identifies governance weaknesses—such as fragmented conflict-of-interest rules, limited transparency in project selection under initiatives like the Just Energy Transition Partnership, and gaps in beneficial-ownership disclosure—that enable corruption, bribery and illicit financial flows in the energy sector…

TI publishes its CPI 2025, revealing global corruption is rising, with the world average falling to 42/100 and democracies like US, UK, France are also slipping, flagging how weak institutions threaten governance

February 20, 2026

Key drivers of corruption include politicised justice systems, concentrated political power, restricted civic space, and entrenched inequality. Regional patterns show severe challenges in Sub‑Saharan Africa and Asia Pacific, while some Western democracies face stalled progress. The report underscores that corruption is no longer confined to developing countries, threatening public services, democratic institutions, and global governance, and calls…

Trends in Organised Crime Paper (Springer, 2026) reveals how shifting actors, governance, and enforcement shape Italy’s corruption networks, offering insights for stronger anti‑corruption strategies

February 6, 2026

The paper analyses how corruption structures and behaviours in Italy change across different periods, highlighting the influence of criminal justice effectiveness, institutional reforms and shifting actor relationships. It provides a conceptual and empirical framework explaining how corrupt networks persist or transform in response to enforcement and governance changes, offering insights for more adaptive anti-corruption strategies…

OECD’s Anti-Bribery Convention data (1999–2024) show foreign bribery enforcement has strengthened, but uneven prosecutions and sanctions reveal persistent gaps in the global fight against corruption

January 22, 2026

This OECD dataset compiles 25 years of enforcement activity under the Anti-Bribery Convention, documenting trends in investigations, charges, convictions and sanctions against individuals and companies for bribery of foreign public officials in international business. It reveals that while total enforcement actions have increased and more companies face meaningful sanctions, significant variation persists among signatories, and many jurisdictions still report…

OECD’s report on Labour Exploitation and Illicit Trade exposes how forced labour and counterfeit goods fuel a hidden global FC network, generating huge illicit profits through opaque supply chains

January 20, 2026

The report highlights evidence of a robust statistical association between the scale of illicit trade in counterfeit goods—which is a massive global market valued at hundreds of billions of dollars—and the prevalence of labour abuses, including forced and exploitive work conditions in production and supply chains. It argues that integrated policy responses are needed that combine trade enforcement, labour protection and responsible business conduct to address the structural conditions that enable both illicit trade and labour exploitation…

OHCHR’s Practical Guide shows corruption as a human rights threat, affecting vulnerable groups, and offers tools for govts and civil society to boost accountability and the rule of law

January 16, 2026

Framing corruption as not just a governance issue but a human rights concern, the guide provides practical tools for governments, civil society, and institutions to understand the links between corruption and human rights, fulfill obligations to respect, protect, and promote human rights, and use human rights frameworks and mechanisms to strengthen anti‑corruption efforts, improve accountability, and guide policy, advocacy, and dialogue…

TI’s Public Debt Confidentiality report exposes how secrecy clauses in Govt loan contracts, used to conceal critical information, undermine transparency, accountability, and public oversight

December 15, 2025

The paper debunks common justifications for secrecy, showing that national security, commercial sensitivity, or better loan terms rarely require hiding debt information. Confidentiality increases corruption risks, raises borrowing costs, and reduces access to finance, ultimately harming public services. TI calls for legal and institutional reforms requiring proactive disclosure by both borrower and lender countries, stronger oversight, and the creation of a global sovereign debt registry, arguing that full transparency is essential for sustainable…

TI’s 2025 report ‘Where is Civic Space in UNCAC Reviews? warns that UNCAC’s review often ignore civic space, failing to evaluate whether civil society can effectively engage in anti-corruption efforts

December 9, 2025

The report shows that 43% of 115 countries reviewed received no recommendations on Article 13, relating to civil society’s role in anti-corruption, and that most recommendations given are vague restatements of the Convention rather than tailored, actionable guidance. It also highlights that reviews generally overlook real barriers affecting civic actors and recommends strengthening the review process by integrating human-rights findings, assessing enabling conditions for civil society, and ensuring meaningful participation and transparency…

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