How enablers facilitate illicit financial flows: Evidence from Africa
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Professionals such as lawyers, accountants and corporate service providers have played a critical role in facilitating financial flows from Africa.
Loophole Masters: How Enablers Facilitate Illicit Financial Flows from Africa
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Foreign non-financial enablers, such as lawyers and corporate service providers, have played a critical role in cross-border corruption schemes implicating African officials.
Ghana Agyapa royalties deal: ECOWAS Court of Justice delivers a disappointing ruling, leaving people’s rights at risk
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Nigeria oil bribery case: Netherlands and US must reopen investigations into Eni and Shell’s role
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9 countries to watch on the 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency Int'l
CPI 2022: Trouble at the top
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While 2022 has seen some progress, advanced economies are still not pulling their weight in the fight against cross-border corruption.
CPI 2022 for Sub-Saharan Africa: Corruption compounding multiple crises
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Corruption is damaging crucial enablers of progress – democracy, security and development – across Sub-Saharan Africa.
CPI 2022 for Eastern Europe & Central Asia: Growing security risks and authoritarianism threaten progress against corruption
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High-level corruption is closely linked to political instability, weakened institutions and – in the most extreme cases – violent conflict.
Countering Russia's kleptocrats: What the West’s response to the assault on Ukraine should look like
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Kleptocracy in Russia has thrived thanks to the complicity of advanced economies, who are now waking up to its dangers.
9 countries to watch on the 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index
Transparency Int'l
CPI 2021 for Sub-Saharan Africa: Amid democratic turbulence, deep-seated corruption exacerbates threats to freedoms
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2021 was a turbulent year for Sub-Saharan Africa. On a continent where corruption plunders precious natural resources and impedes access to public services for millions of people,…
CPI 2021 for Middle East & North Africa: Systemic corruption endangers democracy and human rights
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The region is struggling to achieve tangible results against corruption – no country has registered a significant improvement on the CPI in the last decade. Private interests…
CPI 2021 for Western Europe & European Union: Trouble ahead for stagnating region
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Western Europe and the EU still tops the CPI, but the COVID-19 pandemic has threatened transparency and accountability across the region, leaving no country unscathed and exposing…
CPI 2021: Trouble at the top
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The 2021 CPI shows that top-scoring countries’ complacency has been detrimental not only to global anti-corruption efforts but also to their own affairs.
2021 Corruption Perceptions Index reveals a decade of stagnating corruption levels amid human rights abuses & democratic decline in the Middle East & North Africa
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