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US Treasury on anti-corruption roundtable

US Treasury hosted an anti-corruption roundtable with leaders of NGO’s to discuss Treasury’s anti-corruption strategy and priorities, which longstanding commitment to identifying and countering corruption, particularly the way it intersects with the U.S…

Afrobarometer on level of trust and corruption

Afrobarometer examines levels of trust and tolerance in African countries and how these impact corruption. Analysts study social bonds and social divisions precisely because they believe that societies that are more cohesive, i.e. that have stronger, more positive relationships…

CPS sentences individuals for bribery and corruption schemes

The CPS announced that a group of individuals and entities were sentenced in the Southwark Crown Court for their roles in a bribery scheme involving a senior manager for Coca Cola Enterprises UK Limited (CCE), with each person avoiding prison for their role in the scheme…

FinCEN advisory on kleptocracy & foreign public corruption

FinCEN urges financial institutions to focus efforts on detecting the proceeds of foreign public corruption, a priority for the U.S. Govt. Kleptocratic regimes and corrupt public officials may engage in bribery, embezzlement, extortion, or the misappropriation of public assets…

SFO Business Plan 2022

This Business Plan outlines the key activities that the SFO will undertake in 2022-23 to deliver on our Mission and Strategic Objectives. The mission is to fight complex financial crime; to deliver justice to victims; and to protect the UK’s reputation as a safe place to do business…

SFO outlines strategic plan 2022-25

This Strategy for 2022-2025 sets out the SFO’s approach and goals for the next three years. We will modernise, build our skills and
capabilities, implement improvements in how we do things and seek to influence our operating environment, including the legislative…

TI on experience from 18 integrity pacts in the EU

The impact of integrity pacts was apparent in enhanced transparency and accountability, stronger competition and fairness, better value for money, citizen engagement and even long-term institutional change…

TI-UK publishes annual plan for 2022/23

This Annual Plan is the second under 2021-2030 Strategy, ‘Stopping Corruption – Promoting Integrity’. TI will deepen its programme of work across the public sector, political sphere and private sectors of the UK and continue to lead influential global programming…

OCCRP: Credit Suisse and Venezuela’s Toxic Bond Market

OCCRP uncovers ties between Credit Suisse and numerous actors involved in a complex currency-swapping trade known as the permuta market. Many were implicated in highly lucrative yet illegal securities-related schemes…

OECD on Implementing the Anti-Bribery Convention

OECD details Greece’s progress in respect to implementation and enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention. It also explores issues such as detection, enforcement, corporate liability and international co-operation…

Global Witness investigation on Facebook ads containing hate speech

Global Witness investigations shows Facebook approves ads containing hate speech inciting genocide against the Rohingya. This investigation comes at a time when Facebook is facing legal action in the US and UK accusing the company of negligence that facilitated the…

OCCRP launches a Russian asset tracker

OCCRP started with a list of names of people who “actively participate in the oppression and corruption of Putin’s regime” drawn up by the Anti-Corruption Foundation. It will be expanding it soon to include other Russians sanctioned…