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TI-UK publishes its 2023/24 Annual Plan under the 2021-2030 Strategy: ‘Stopping Corruption – Promoting Integrity’

The priorities for 2023/24 include focusing efforts on remaining gaps in Britain’s Dirty Money defences whilst ensuring the effectiveness of new measures triggered by the conflict in Ukraine, improving supervision of AML defences, corporate transparency in British Overseas…

US Treasury hosts Countering Corruption and Illicit Finance as part of Summit for Democracy

US Treasury brings together leaders from government, civil society, and international organizations to discuss the efforts to counter corruption and illicit finance in order to uphold the rule of law, promote good governance, and ensure an equal…

TI UK publishes Policy Paper on Managing Revolving Door Risks in Westminster

This paper sets out TI-UK views on how to improve the regulation of post-public employment for former ministers and high-ranking civil
servants in Westminster. The movement of individuals between positions of public office and jobs in the private or voluntary sector in…

Council of Europe removes Ukraine from blacklist of states that prevent combating corruption

GRECO has concluded that the current level of compliance with its recommendations is no longer “globally unsatisfactory,” The group asked Ukraine to provide a report on the measures taken to implement the unfulfilled recommendations by March 31, 2024…

SEC charges Rio Tinto plc with bribery controls failures

SEC announced charges against global mining and metals company, Rio Tinto plc, for violations of the FCPA arising out of a bribery scheme involving a consultant in Guinea. The company has agreed to pay a $15 million civil penalty to settle the SEC’s charges…

EC Handbook of good practices in the fight against corruption

To aid Member States, practitioners, researchers and civil society, the European Commission publishes a Handbook of good practices in the fight against corruption. The goal is to map a variety of anti-corruption practices in EU Member States that have proved to be useful in…

GRECO 5th round evaluation report on Ireland

GRECO calls on Ireland to pursue its efforts to prevent corruption in respect of persons with top Government executive functions and the police. It calls for codes of conduct in respect of persons with top government functions to cover conflicts of interest, lobbying…

 

TI-UK insights from the UK’s register of overseas entities

The research details how almost 52,000 UK properties are still owned anonymously despite a new transparency law designed to reveal their true owners. a new database of the real owners of offshore firms that hold UK property, shows almost half of the companies required…

US DoJ on False Claims Act Settlements and Judgments Exceed $2 Billion in Fiscal Year 2022

US DOJ Annual Fraud Report 2022 shows the critical role that whistleblowers play in securing these recoveries for the government: of the $2.2 billion recovered, $1.96 billion – 89% – was recovered in cases initiated by whistleblowers under the False Claims Act. This 89% whistleblower…

SFO secures three convictions in $500 million trade finance fraud

The SFO secured convictions of two executives of British steel trading business, Balli Steel Plc., on six counts of fraud. SFO investigators exposed how two of the defendants conspired to deceive trade finance banks by providing misleading information, false shipping documents and…

TI 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index Report

The 2022 CPI shows that most countries are failing to stop corruption. The CPI ranks 180 countries and territories around the world by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, scoring on a scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean)…

TI UK reveals that UK plunged to lowest-ever position in Corruption Perceptions Index 2022

UK has recorded its lowest-ever position in a global anti-corruption index after suffering a series of scandals in public life. The UK slipped to 18th place in the annual corruption rankings compiled by TI UK, placing it behind Uruguay, Estonia and Hong Kong….