CPI 2019: Trouble at the top
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Top scoring countries on the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) like Denmark, Switzerland and Iceland are not immune to corruption. While the CPI shows these public sectors to be…
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Three ways to stop money laundering through real estate
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Around the world, buying property is a favourite method for the corrupt to launder their ill-gotten gains. However, there are concrete measures that make it significantly more…
Announcing the theme for the 19th edition of the International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC)
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Designing 2030: Truth, Trust & Transparency
Blood diamonds and land corruption in Sierra Leone
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A community in Sierra Leone has created powerful short videos documenting their experiences of corruption, forced evictions and a botched resettlement programme at the hands of a…
Countries must be more transparent when investigating transnational corruption
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Supervisory and justice systems should be transparent and accountable so that the public can assess their performance.
Resilient institutions
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Reducing corruption is an important component of the sustainable development agenda, and one that all state parties have an obligation to address. Although corruption is often…
Citizens speak out about corruption in Africa
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The Global Corruption Barometer (GCB) – Africa, reveals that while most people in Africa feel corruption increased in their country, a majority also feel optimistic that they can…
Where are Africa’s billions?
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National governments aren’t the only ones failing African citizens in the fight against corruption.
25 corruption scandals that shook the world
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Twenty-five years ago, when Transparency International was founded, corruption was seen as the necessary price of doing business and something so deeply ingrained that exposing…
Austria’s Strache affair and the undue influence toolkit
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A week ago, German newspapers published evidence of the former Vice-Chancellor of Austria and a colleague apparently negotiating corrupt deals with the purported niece of a…
Why corruption matters in the EU elections
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What voters should know as they head to the polls.
The trillion dollar question: the IMF and anti-corruption one year on
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made public commitments and adopted a new framework to address corruption - we check how the IMF is progressing with this one year later.
Three years after the Panama Papers: progress on horizon
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The explosive Pulitzer Prize-winning global media project known as the "Panama Papers" turned three years old, and there are many reasons to celebrate.
Troika Laundromat signals a different kind of financial crisis
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The Troika Laundromat investigation shines a spotlight on a cast of new and familiar characters in the ongoing saga surrounding flows of dirty money through the world’s financial…
Trouble at the top: why high-scoring countries aren’t corruption-free
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For the third year running, the top seven countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index 2018 consist of the four Nordic nations – Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway – plus New…
Clean up Spain – Justice for Azerbaijan’s reputation laundering in Europe
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In Azerbaijan, critical voices are routinely suppressed. Meanwhile in Europe, politicians suspected of helping whitewash Azerbaijan’s record on human rights enjoy impunity. Join…
