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COP26: Is corruption on the agenda?

As world leaders gather at COP26 to negotiate their climate change commitments, will they include a credible commitment to fight corruption? Corruption is strangely missing from the conversation…

SFO on Unaoil bribery probe

The attorney general has launched an independent review after judges severely criticised Britain’s main anti-corruption agency and overturned the conviction of a businessman because of its misconduct…

UK Govt taskforce to tackle scams during pandemic

Ofcom research finds 45m people received at least one fraudulent message in last 3 months. The relaunch of the government’s Joint Fraud Taskforce is accompanied by new charters committing the sectors used by criminals to actions to protect people’s money…

US DoJ on alleged venezuela ML & bribery scheme

US DoJ charges five individuals for their alleged roles in laundering the proceeds of contracts to provide food and medicine to Venezuela that were obtained through bribes to obtain and retain inflated contracts through…

TI on linkages between gender and corruption

This analysis reveals that deeply ingrained discriminatory and gender-based factors impede women’s ability to report corruption, and seek and obtain redress. Due to their social roles, childcare and housework responsibilities, as well as gendered income inequalities, women lack…

US DoJ Anti-corruption Task Force

US DoJ announced a tip line to help assist its Anticorruption Task Force fight corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, a key component of the Vice President’s work to address the root causes of migration. Corruption and impunity in the region undermine…

NCA issue advisory on payment diversion fraud

Payment Diversion Fraud (PDF) is a key example calculated crime. PDF, also known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) or Mandate Fraud, involves criminals impersonating others, creating or amending invoices and diverting payments to bank accounts under their own control…

US Members of Congress announces the Enablers Act

The ENABLERS Act would impose stronger due diligence requirements on such U.S.-based middlemen, to ensure that the US never again facilitates the corruption and dictatorship we claim to oppose by giving kleptocrats and criminals a safe haven for the money they steal…

OECD on corruption in infrastructure

The OECD will develop an Infrastructure Anti-corruption Toolbox (I ACT) which will build the capacity of stakeholders to implement
effective anti-corruption systems based on international standards. Corruption and a lack of trust threaten to reduce the benefits of…

SFO secures third set of Petrofac bribery convictions 

The SFO has secured the conviction of Petrofac Limited for seven separate counts of failure to prevent bribery between 2011 and 2017. Petrofac admitted that senior executives of the Petrofac Group paid GBP 32 million (USD 44 million) in bribes to corrupt the awarding…

OECD on illicit financial flows in oil & gas commodity trade 

Oil trade activities constitute the most significant source of domestic resource mobilisation for oil producing developing countries. Yet, corruption and illicit financial flows (IFFs) also expose them to macro-critical risks of economic instability, exacerbating their often-high…

Basel Institute on corruption

Basel Institute publishes research on revealing the networks behind corruption and ML schemes, using the Toledo–Odebrecht case…