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Basel Institute of Governance annual report 2021

Basel Institute of Governance publishes annual report for 2021 highlighting key anti-corruption strategies & priorities. Corruption is a strategic weapon, used to buy geopolitical influence, to capture entire economies and to subjugate people…

GRECO on transparency and accountability of lobbying

European governments should increase transparency and accountability around lobbying to ensure that members of the public know which actors are seeking to influence political decisions so that the risk of corrupt practices can be reduced…

First SFO trial of 2022 results in double conviction

The SFO has secured the convictions of the two company directors behind fraudulent green investment schemes in Brazil, which took in approximately £37 million of investments. Global Forestry Investments was presented as a secure, well-managed, ethical investment…

OECD Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum 2022

To foster trust, the panellists called for capacity building in the implementation of international standards, protection of whistle-blowers, open contracting, and introduction of beneficial ownership registers…

TI UK publishes report on Values Added

This report outlines practical steps to help companies through the key stages of implementing values to enhance their anti-corruption approaches: defining a company’s desired values, understanding those already in place, embedding values…

Panama Intermediaries sentenced for bribery & ML

US DoJ sentences ex-Panamanian president’s sons to 36 months in prison for laundering $28m in a scheme involving Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction conglomerate. The defendants were also ordered to forfeit more than $18.8 million, pay a $250,000 fine…

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…