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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…
Council of Europe e-course: “Introduction to corruption prevention”
The course aims to support the understanding of preventive tools for a greater awareness of the integrity standards that apply to public officials. It puts in the spotlight ethical dilemmas and challenges in implementing anti-corruption measures…
TI-UK on reducing corruption risks in planning decisions
This assessment looked at how local authorities compared against good practice standards for managing corruption risks. Our research found that, overall, local authorities do not meet good practice standards…
TI on governance frameworks of five eco-finance funds
This report assesses four areas of governance: integrity, accountability, transparency and methods for assessing policy effectiveness. It also appraises the funds’ requirements for their implementing entities (IEs) in these areas…
SEC Charges Stericycle with Bribery Schemes in Latin America
The SEC’s order finds that Stericycle, a leading provider of medical waste and other services in 16 countries worldwide, paid millions of dollars in bribes to obtain and maintain business from government customers in Brazil, Mexico, and Argentina from at least 2012 to 2016…
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…