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GRECO finds Kazakhstan remains insufficiently compliant with its anti-corruption recommendations, despite progress on procurement, financial investigations and transparency

October 1, 2026

GRECO’s Second Compliance Report finds that Kazakhstan has satisfactorily implemented six of 27 recommendations, with 19 partly implemented and two unimplemented, while recognising reforms including new procurement safeguards, improved access-to-information rules and planned parallel financial investigations. Significant gaps remain around the independence of judicial and law-enforcement institutions, conflicts of interest, asset declarations, whistleblower protection, beneficial ownership and corporate liability, leading GRECO to initiate its non-compliance procedure and request further progress by March 2027.

OECD Integrity Review Report finds corruption risks persist in the Dominican Republic despite reforms, with gaps in conflicts of interest, transparency, lobbying, whistleblowing, and political finance

September 30, 2026

The review examines the country’s public-integrity and anti-corruption framework, including conflicts of interest, lobbying, internal control and audit, institutional coordination and corruption-risk management. It acknowledges significant reforms while setting out further measures needed to translate formal rules into effective implementation across government…

Australia’s National Anti-Corruption Commission reports its twelfth conviction after a company manager attempted to bribe a Commonwealth official with $20,000 hidden in a bag of tea

September 3, 2026

The conviction resulted from a joint investigation by the NACC, Australian Federal Police and Queensland Police into an attempt to accelerate approval of a product under a Commonwealth rebate scheme. The Commission’s September operational update also shows 33 corruption investigations and 18 preliminary investigations underway, alongside 11 joint investigations and four matters before the courts.

TI’s 2026 regional assessment finds major political finance gaps across 17 Asian countries, with 11 failing to fully disclose financial information and weak controls allowing illicit money into politics

September 3, 2026

Transparency International has assessed political finance systems across 17 countries in South, Southeast and East Asia, identifying areas where weaknesses in the regulation and oversight of political funding create opportunities for corruption and undue influence. The assessment considers six areas of integrity – transparency, clean money, a level playing field, gender equality, state neutrality and accountability…

GI-TOC finds Cambodia’s cyber-scam industry spreading from casino areas to rural communities and becoming part of local economies despite government crackdowns

August 31, 2026

Research by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime finds Cambodia’s cyber-scam industry has expanded beyond casino developments and border towns into secondary cities, villages and remote areas, reshaping local labour markets, land use and economic activity. Fieldwork across eight locations found that, despite government crackdowns in 2025 and the departure or deportation of tens of thousands of scam…

OCCRP identifies alleged Cambodia-based Prince Group ‘enforcer’ linked to cyber scams, money laundering, corruption and a cross-border business network

August 8, 2026

OCCRP has identified Chen Sokly as an alleged enforcer for Cambodia’s Prince Group, accused by U.S. prosecutors of helping protect scam operations through corruption, intimidation and interference with law enforcement. The investigation also uncovered his links to businesses and properties across Cambodia, Singapore, Mauritius and the U.S., highlighting the network’s extensive cross-border footprint…

GFI’s Legislative Gap Analysis Report exposes key gaps in Belize’s anti-corruption framework, from weak enforcement and coordination to beneficial ownership transparency and financial intelligence.

August 4, 2026

Global Financial Integrity’s legislative gap analysis reviews Belize’s legal and institutional arrangements for preventing, detecting and prosecuting corruption and related financial crime. It finds that the country has core legislation covering bribery, abuse of office, money laundering, asset recovery and corporate transparency, broadly reflecting UNCAC and FATF principles, but identifies systemic weaknesses that limit the effectiveness of enforcement and accountability…

Basel’s 2025 Annual Report highlights growing efforts to tackle corruption and illicit finance through stronger asset recovery, collaboration and responses to emerging risks such as environmental crime

July 30, 2026

The report’s key message is that corruption and financial crime are becoming increasingly interconnected, requiring stronger asset tracing, beneficial ownership transparency, financial investigations and international cooperation to disrupt illicit wealth flows. It emphasises the need for stronger cooperation, transparency and practical tools to disrupt illicit financial flows…

Australia’s NACC arrests and charges a senior manager of a renewable energy technology company over alleged attempts to bribe a Commonwealth public official during a product approval process

July 27, 2026

The investigation concerns allegations that the individual used their position to obtain improper benefits, with NACC alleging conduct involving corrupt influence and abuse of public office. The case forms part of NACC’s broader efforts to detect, investigate and prosecute serious corruption risks affecting public institutions…

GRECO’s 4th Compliance report finds that Bosnia and Herzegovina has strengthened its anti-corruption framework but must implement further reforms to improve integrity and accountability

July 21, 2026

Bosnia and Herzegovina has made further progress in strengthening anti-corruption measures, with the Council of Europe’s GRECO confirming that it has now satisfactorily implemented six of its 15 recommendations on corruption prevention for parliamentarians, judges and prosecutors, allowing the country to exit GRECO’s non-compliance procedure while further reforms remain underway…

Hong Kong ICAC sentences a secretarial company proprietor for offering a HK$6,800 bribe to a bank employee to assist clients referred by her in opening bank accounts

July 15, 2026

A company secretarial proprietor was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment and fined HK$2,000 after pleading guilty to offering a HK$6,800 bribe to a Bank of China (Hong Kong) employee for assisting referred clients in opening bank accounts. The bank employee refused the bribe and reported the incident, with ICAC noting that BOCHK assisted the investigation and that the accounts opened in the case had fulfilled…

OECD’s Phase 4 Follow-Up Report on Türkiye finds limited progress on foreign bribery reforms, with continued gaps in enforcement, corporate liability and whistleblower protection

July 9, 2026

The Phase 4 follow-up report says Türkiye has fully implemented only 10 of 71 recommendations, partially implemented 12 and not implemented 49, with continuing priority gaps on whistleblower protection, corporate liability, dissemination of foreign bribery allegations to prosecutors and designation of a specialist prosecutorial unit. The Working Group also expresses concern that Türkiye has opened no new foreign bribery investigations or prosecutions…

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