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 […]

Ukrainian anti-corruption agencies have pledged to act swiftly to identify and punish politicians who acted illegally in accumulating the riches revealed under a new law obliging officials and deputies to disclose their wealth. Tens of thousands of officials at all levels had until Sunday to submit a full statement of their earnings and assets, using […]

Johannesburg – JSE-listed conglomerate British American Tobacco (BAT) and the private security firm it has contracted have been accused of running a scheme of bribing South African police officers, spying on competitors using police cameras, and even sourcing confidential business information on one of its rivals from officials in the SA Revenue Service (Sars). The […]

The DOJ has alleged in a civil forfeiture complaint Wednesday that officials at Malaysia’s sovereign wealth fund 1MDB and the step son of the Malaysia prime minister diverted more than $3.5 billion from the fund. http://bit.ly/2ahwHY5 The DOJ say, They laundered the money through a series of complex transactions and fraudulent shell companies with bank […]

Sister of King Felipe allegedly failed to declare taxes and will appear in court alongside her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin Spain’s Princess Cristina has lost a legal battle to avoid being tried for tax fraud and is expected to testify next month in a corruption trial also featuring her husband and 16 other defendants. Lawyers for […]

They play a key role in maintaining the secrecy of thousands of beneficial owners and hundreds of thousands of business transactions. They do this by selling their names for use on official documents of the company, using addresses in obscure parts of the world, providing the anonymity for corrupt officials, tax evaders and organized criminals. […]

Fourteen politicians in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu have been handed jail sentences for corruption. The members of parliament were convicted of bribery on 9 October, when President Baldwin Lonsdale was abroad. In his absence, Parliamentary Speaker Marcellino Pipite used his powers as acting president to pardon himself and the others. On his return […]

Ex-UN consultants jailed for bribes over drugs supplied to ‘starving Africans’ Guido Bakker sentenced to one year and Sijbrandus Scheffer to 15 months after rigging pharmaceutical contracts for DRC Two former UN consultants have been jailed by a UK court for receiving bribes to rig contracts worth £66m to supply life-saving drugs to the Democratic […]