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OECD and EUIPO warn that while China’s Belt and Road Initiative boosts trade, it also fuels illicit and counterfeit goods, stressing the need for greater transparency and safeguards
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is China’s global development strategy, launched in 2013, aimed at building extensive land (“Belt”) and maritime (“Road”) infrastructure networks. This OECD report argues that its expanded connectivity has also correlated with a rise in illicit trade—especially counterfeits—underscoring the need for robust transparency and risk mitigation measures…
Basel’s latest blog warns of rising corruption and financial crime in Europe, driven by digital tech and organised crime, while stressing the challenges with asset recovery
In their recent reports, both institutions emphasize the rising risks associated with illicit financial activities and the challenges posed by increasingly sophisticated criminal networks. They stress the need for enhanced efforts in asset recovery, urging innovative approaches to confiscating criminal assets. This includes utilizing advanced technologies, improving regulatory frameworks…
US SEC charges PGI Global founder in a US$198m crypto and forex Ponzi scheme, exposing misappropriated funds and triggering parallel criminal prosecution
According to the SEC’s complaint, Palafox used Ponzi tactics to deceive investors, falsely promising high returns from his supposed trading platform, which he claimed utilized sophisticated crypto and forex strategies. Instead, Palafox misappropriated over $57 million in investor funds for personal expenses, including luxury cars, watches, and other items, while using the remaining funds to pay returns to earlier investors…
GRECO Compliance report emphasise Spain’s sluggish progress in implementing anti-corruption reforms, noting significant transparency gaps in Govt and Law enforcement
Despite some steps forward, Spain is under a non-compliance procedure for its slow progress, particularly in areas like financial disclosure, lobbying, and revolving doors. GRECO calls for tailored reforms, stronger conflict of interest oversight, and improvements in corruption prevention within law enforcement and judicial bodies…
FALCON’s 2025 Brief exposes grand corruption’s spread, with bribery in 89% of border cases and 67% of procurement scandals, fueling embezzlement, fraud, and cross-border ML, urging global reforms
The FALCON project has released a policy brief dissecting major corruption schemes—like public procurement fraud, border bribery, and sanctions evasion—and their societal costs across Europe. It offers new risk indicators and urges better data interoperability, stronger legal safeguards, and harmonized EU-wide anti‑corruption measures…
OECD’s 2025 Global Anti-Corruption & Integrity Forum spotlighted how emerging tech, shifting global standards, and powerful cross-sector alliances are reshaping the future of anti-corruption efforts
The Forum explored how emerging technologies such as AI, data analytics, and digital forensics—can disrupt corruption, strengthen integrity, and enhance enforcement. It underscored the private sector’s pivotal role and highlighted how today’s innovations are reshaping the global fight against corruption…
GRECO’s Compliance report praises Sweden’s transparency efforts but urges stronger conflict-of-interest rules, stricter enforcement, and improved Police oversight with whistleblower training
Report also identifies need for a strategy to address “friendship corruption” and conflicts of interest. It also commends Sweden’s transparency policies and the new law on ministers’ transition to the private sector but calls for more effective mechanisms for monitoring financial declarations, enforcement of rules, and a consolidated code of conduct for the Police Authority, alongside better whistleblower protection training…
UK SFO’s 2025-26 Business plan targets swift, tech-driven investigations, tougher fraud enforcement, stronger global ties and a new focus on whistleblowers and the ‘failure to prevent fraud’ offence
Key priorities include using the new “failure to prevent fraud” offence, launching a whistleblower incentivisation scheme, and expanding tech tools like Technology Assisted Review to speed up casework…
TI’s ‘Barriers to Basics’ report reveals how corruption and discrimination deny marginalised groups in Africa of basic services, with bias worsening corruption and exclusion
Transparency International’s Barriers to Basics report reveals how corruption and discrimination combine to block access to essential education and healthcare services in several African countries. Based on lived experiences from the DRC, Ghana, Madagascar, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe, it calls for urgent action to protect rights and dismantle systemic barriers…
OLAF uncovers a massive EU fraud scheme, leading to the conviction of 9 MEPs for embezzlement related to fictitious employment, with over €420K recovered for the EU budget
The investigations revealed serious irregularities and focused on the fictitious employment of individuals falsely listed as parliamentary assistants despite never having worked for the European Parliament. In one instance, for example, the evidence gathered revealed that an assistant had been paid by the European Parliament without ever providing support to the MEP in parliamentary offices as required. Instead, this individual lived near Paris and worked for the political party exclusively…
OECD’s report urges Govts to enhance anti-corruption oversight through unified standards, consistent enforcement, greater transparency, AI integration, and stronger public-private collaboration
Key recommendations include fostering public-private dialogue, utilising data analytics and AI, offering incentives for effective compliance, and providing targeted support to SMEs and investment in compliance training can foster ethical business practices, while ensuring that compliance efforts are continuously reviewed…
Basel’s ‘Anti-Corruption Collective Action: A Typology for a New Era’ introduces a revised framework for tackling corruption and promoting business integrity
Working Paper 56 aims to expand engagement, attract new stakeholders, and reinforce its role as a long-term corruption prevention strategy…