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IMF public procurement corruption & the price impact
IMF assesses vulnerabilities to corruption on public procurement and the impact on prices, using large databases on Govt contracts and tenders and analyze how price differential in public procurement contracts can be explained by corruption risk factor…
US/Mexico agree to work on anti-corruption
The US and Mexico committed to establish a working group on anti-corruption, focused primarily on a high-level strategic response to public corruption and in line with current Treasury efforts and the Biden Administration’s December 2021…
TI on Bhutan Anti-Corruption Commission
TI conducts second assessment of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Bhutan to measure progress since the pilot assessment in 2015. The Report serves as a guide for both the Anti-Corruption Commission and other interested parties to strengthen and expand the impact…
Transparency International Annual Report 2021
TI edged closer to ending secretive corporate structures, took the fight against corruption to the global stage, exposed how corruption is crippling lifesaving COVID-19 responses, made protecting anti-corruption activists…
Global Witness publishes Annual report 2020
Global Witness campaigns on (i) Ending corporate corruption and improving governance in the natural resources sector (ii) Ending corporate complicity in environmental and human rights abuses (iii) Ending the growth of gas…
UK Treasury on fraud, scams & economic crime report
The report urged the Govt to legislate against online fraudulent adverts and seriously consider whether online giants should reimburse those who fall victim to scams on their platforms. It also called for the Govt to urgently…
Egmont Group on FIU’s role in the fight against financial crime
Egmont Group examines the role of FIU’s in fight against financial crime amid the context of COVID-19 in new report. The key FIU tools utilised in corruption-related cases include timely access to financial data and associated information and specialized IT to facilitate…
Moneyval on virtual assets in 2021 annual report
Virtual assets are abused to launder proceeds from fraud and corruption, as well as for tax evasion. There is suspicion that some of the smaller cryptocurrencies are being set up specifically with the motive of laundering. The larger virtual assets are seeing heavy market…
TI New Zealand report on corruption & ML
TI New Zealand report on corruption and ML in the pacific region. Corruption in AML institutions, e.g., in financial regulators and policy
makers, may hinder the actual implementation and enforcement of AML laws…
SFO recovers almost £600k from bank accounts of former Petrofac fixer
SFO has recovered £567,466.53 from personal bank accounts linked to a former fixer for the Petrofac group. The 3 bank accounts – all linked to the Basim Al Shaikh (now deceased) – were identified and then frozen by the SFO on 3rd Feb 2021, on suspicion of containing…
The SFO “Operation Steamroller”
SFO will be returning over £1 million to more than 200 victims, following one of the largest boiler room frauds ever pursued by a UK authority. The SFO’s seven year investigation, codenamed Operation Steamroller, led to the successful prosecution of Australian national…
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…