Transparency International UK has published a report entitled “Don’t’ Look, Won’t Find Weaknesses in the Supervision of the UK’s Anti-Money Laundering Rules” which concludes that the UK’s anti-money laundering (AML) system requires a radical overhaul to prevent corrupt money from entering the UK. Overall, the report identifies that the current supervisory system is not fit […]

The just released Transparency International Middle East & North Africa, Government Defense Anti-Corruption Index is exhaustive and thorough analysis of real-world risk which exists in the region.  Every country in the Middle East and North Africa assessed by the first of its kind Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index  leaves the door open to waste, impunity and […]

http://www.transparency.org/exporting_corruption Foreign bribery is not an abstract phenomenon; it has damaging consequences in the form of contracts not going to the best qualified suppliers, prices often being inflated to cover bribe payments, environmental requirements not being enforced and taxes not being collected. Sixteen years after the OECD Convention on Combating Foreign Bribery entered into force, […]

It’s bad enough that just getting things done in Russia, from beating a speeding ticket to running a business, often means paying a kickback. But now it’s worse: You’ve got to pay twice as much. Russia’s Interior Ministry told reporters in late July that the average bribe may have doubled from around 109,000 rubles last year to 208,000 today. In dollars, that increase is nowhere nearly […]

A Russian government institute has developed a complex program for evaluating the level of corruption, which its authors say is superior to the widely advertised, but very subjective Transparency International index. The new method will be presented by the Institute of Law and Comparative Jurisprudence at the Eurasian Anti-Corruption Forum this week, the Izvestia daily […]

Transparency International calls on governments and their enforcement authorities across the world to combine forces to end money laundering impunity. These authorities should assign the highest priority to prosecuting individuals and banks when clear evidence exists of their involvement in illicit international financial transactions. José Ugaz, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Transparency International, […]