Trouble at the top: why high-scoring countries aren’t corruption-free Denmark, which tops the list this year, has recently been rocked by the money-laundering scandal surrounding Danske Bank, its biggest lender, among other corruption cases. About US$230 billion of suspicious transactions are thought to have passed through Danske Bank’s Estonian branch, which has been linked to the Russian Laundromat and Azerbaijani […]

The 2018 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released today by Transparency International reveals that the continued failure of most countries to significantly control corruption is contributing to a crisis of democracy around the world. “With many democratic institutions under threat across the globe – often by leaders with authoritarian or populist tendencies – we need to […]

  Transparency International, the leading civil society organisation fighting corruption worldwide, will release its 24th annual Corruption Perceptions Index on Tuesday 29 January 2019 at 06:01 CET (00:01 EST). Transparency International’s flagship research product, the Corruption Perceptions Index is the leading global indicator of public-sector corruption, offering an annual snapshot of the relative degree of corruption. […]

Transparency International, the leading civil society organisation, fighting corruption worldwide, will release its 22nd annual Corruption Perceptions Index on; Wednesday, 25 January 2017 at 5 am Berlin time (4 am GMT). This year’s index ranks 169 countries/territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption. The index draws on 13 surveys covering expert assessments and […]

International anti-corruption NGO, Transparency International, yesterday released its latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), reviewing public sector corruption risk in 168 countries. http://www.transparency.org/ Herbert Smith’s 2015 report highlights the same offending countries and points to similar issues, particularly systemic government corruption, failed electoral mandates and public revolts against alleged grand-scale corruption. http://www.herbertsmithfreehills.com/insights/guides/global-anti-corruption-guide-2015?wtr=module-global-anti-corruption-guide The latest CPI scores […]

A Russian government institute has developed a complex program for evaluating the level of corruption, which its authors say is superior to the widely advertised, but very subjective Transparency International index. The new method will be presented by the Institute of Law and Comparative Jurisprudence at the Eurasian Anti-Corruption Forum this week, the Izvestia daily […]

Transparency International (TI) has published the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2014. This is the 20th annual edition of the CPI, which ranks countries according to how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. The index is compiled using a combination of polls drawing on corruption-related data and also reflects the views of observers worldwide. […]