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20
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 20 February 2013

Global: Football officials urge corruption action at Malaysia meeting
BBC

Officials in the world of football have said all countries and organisations must do more to tackle corruption.

19
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 19 February 2013

Malaysia: Whistle-blower at centre of Malaysia graft fight
Agence France-Presse

Malaysians head to the polls in the coming months with the country's persistent corruption high on the list of public concerns, and few have done more to put it there than baby-faced Rafizi Ramli.

18
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 18 February 2013

Global: AgustaWestland denies corruption charges over India helicopter deal
The Guardian

Helicopter manufacturer AgustaWestland is to formally deny corruption claims over its £480m defence deal with the Indian government and insists the contract will stand.

15
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 15 February 2013

Global: Onshore financial centres: Not a palm-tree in sight
The Economist

Sam Koim, the chairman of Papua New Guinea’s anti-corruption watchdog, raised eyebrows at a meeting of financial crime-fighters in Sydney last October when he described how officials from his country were systematically “using Australia as a Cayman Islands” by laundering a significant portion of corruptly obtained funds through Australian banks and property deals.

14
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 14 February 2013

Italy: Berlusconi tells Italian firms to keep bribing after Orsi arrest
Bloomberg

Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi criticized prosecutors for arresting Finmeccanica SpA’s ex-chief executive officer, Giuseppe Orsi, and said global companies that shun graft are destined to fall behind.

13
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 13 February 2013

Moldova: Moldova nears crisis as ministers probed for corruption
Agence France-Presse

The ex-Soviet state of Moldova is heading for a new political crisis after the authorities launched criminal probes against three ministers implicated in corruption scandals.

12
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 12 February 2013

Global: Head of Finmeccanica is arrested in corruption inquiry
The New York Times

Italy awoke Tuesday to yet another corporate scandal with political overtones, as prosecutors in Milan arrested the head of the state-controlled aerospace company Finmeccanica in an investigation related to the sale of 12 helicopters to India in 2010.

11
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 11 February 2013

Global: Swiss will not reopen graft probe into Pakistan president
Reuters

Swiss authorities will not reopen a corruption probe into the Pakistani president, officials said Sunday, laying to rest a case that cost one Pakistani prime minister his job and inflamed tensions between Pakistan's executive and judiciary.

8
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 8 February 2013

Global: Italian oil giant caught up in corruption investigation
The New York Times

The Italian oil giant ENI said Thursday that Milan prosecutors had expanded their investigation of alleged corruption in Algeria involving Saipem, the company’s oil services subsidiary, to include ENI itself and its chief executive, Paolo Scaroni.

7
Feb
2013

Daily Corruption News: 7 February 2013

Afghanistan: UN: Cost of Afghan corruption rose sharply last year, with half the population paying a bribe
Associated Press

The cost of corruption in Afghanistan rose sharply last year to $3.9 billion, and half of all Afghans bribed public officials for services, the U.N. said Thursday. The findings came despite repeated promises by President Hamid Karzai to clean up his government.

8
May
2012

Invisible hand, greased palm

Walmart allegedly covers up millions of dollars in bribes paid to local government officials in Mexico. A former Morgan Stanley executive is convicted of funnelling money to a Chinese official in ...

The New Yorker

20
Apr
2012

DAP to gather its MPs to sign integrity pledge

The DAP will gather all its MPs to sign the election integrity pledge launched by anti-corruption watchdog Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) to demonstrate its commitment to integrity and ...

Malaysiakini

18
Apr
2012

TIS objects to political selection of heads of watchdog authorities

The new heads of watchdog authorities such as the Supreme Audit Office (NKÚ) and the Public Procurement Office (ÚVO) ought to be picked via open selection procedures rather than via political ...

The Slovak Spectator

11
Apr
2012

Transparency International calls for tougher enforcement of KYC rules

Transparency International has urged finance ministers attending this month's International Monetary Fund (IMF) meeting in Washington to rigorously enforce know your customer (KYC) rules at ...

TrustLaw

10
Apr
2012

‘Fund use must be transparent’

Transparency and accountability in spending climate funds would help the country attract foreign funds in future to combat climate change, said Saber Hossain Chowdhury, chairman of the all-party ...

The Daily Star

4
Apr
2012

Parliamentary parties sign declaration on principles of campaign and party financing

All six parties in Hungary’s parliament agreed on the main principles of political party and campaign financing and signed a declaration on Wednesday.

The agreement was made during talks ...

Politics.Hu

19
Mar
2012

Transparency International launches regional news website

BeyondTbilisi.ge, a new website launched by Transparency International Georgia (TI), launched on March 16. The site aggregates news in a space that aims to popularize media outlets in Georgia's ...

The Messenger Online

18
Mar
2012

People of Odisha to get free legal advice and information in their fight against corruption

In its efforts to introduce various internationally designed and implemented tools of good governance, Transparency International India today launched ALAC Helpline at Indian Medical Association ...

OdissaDiary

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