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Robin Hodess appointed Interim Internal Managing Director of Transparency International

Transparency International - Transparency International is pleased to announce the appointment of Robin Hodess as Interim Internal Managing Director of the International Secretariat, based in Berlin, Germany.

G20 countries are breaking commitments to publish data that helps tackle corruption

Accountability - Research published today by Transparency International and the Web Foundation finds that five key G20 countries are failing to meet commitments to publish data that helps tackle corruption. If the data was publicly available it could be used to curb criminal activities, including money laundering ...

Prosecutors from 15 countries must act quickly to bring the corrupt to justice in Lava Jato scandal

Politics and government - Transparency International and its chapters in Latin America call on the prosecutors from the 15 countries involved in the Lava Jato corruption scandal, meeting in Brazil this week, to take strong steps to bring the guilty to justice. The Lava Jato scandal involves a network of more than twenty ...

Authorities should disclose information about efforts to stop banks laundering money

Financial markets - Transparency International today said bank regulators need to publish much more information about whether banks are doing what’s required by law to stop money laundering. This would ensure that citizens and businesses can be confident corrupt individuals and organisations, criminals, or ...

Transparency International calls for the immediate release of two members of its Venezuelan chapter

Civil society - Transparency International calls for the immediate release of two members of its Venezuelan chapter, Transparencia Venezuela, and two Brazilian journalists who were detained in Maracaiba, Zulia state in Venezuela.

There must be no amnesty for corruption in Moldova

Politics and government - Transparency International and its national chapter in Moldova are calling on lawmakers to withdraw legislation currently before the Moldovan parliament that would grant impunity to corrupt officials, businesses and civil servants for declaring assets, even if the assets were acquired from illicit ...

Romania must not grant immunity to the corrupt and should implement strong anti-corruption laws

Romania - Transparency International and Transparency International Romania welcomes the government of Romania’s withdrawal of emergency laws that would have weakened the fight against corruption and calls for full implementation of the current the anti-corruption legislation.

We need transparency, responsibility, honesty, lucidity and democracy

Romania - The events we witnessed these last few days, that worried the entire country and the world, are the result of a fundamental matter and two major factors, namely the lack of a public debate and the means used to adopt certain law changing measures, as well as the misuse of the anticorruption message ...

Transparency International strongly condemns intimidation of its El Salvador chapter

Civil society - Transparency International strongly condemns the use of spying devices against civil society and political intimidation in El Salvador, including its national chapter in the country, the Fundación Nacional para el Desarollo (FUNDE), and calls for an investigation into all illegal phone-tapping.

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Explanation of how individual country scores of the Corruption Perceptions Index are calculated

Surveys - Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organisation, released its 22nd annual Corruption Perceptions Index on 25 January 2017. The FYR of Macedonia ranked 90th with a score of 37, indicating a serious corruption problem in the country.