Global Anti-Corruption Updates
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Transparency International - Daily Corruption News (25 Feb 2015)
Today's top story
Global: Goodyear agrees to settle bribery case
New York Times Goodyear, one of the world’s largest tire manufacturers, has agreed to pay more than $16 million to settle charges that it violated federal antibribery laws tied to tire sales by its subsidiaries in Kenya and Angola. |
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Global: Unions, charity accuse McDonald's of avoiding $1.1 billion in tax
Reuters Global: Former Petrobras executive charged with taking bribes Reuters Global: Fifa executive member Michel D'Hooghe cleared of corruption BBC Bangladesh: Bangladesh court issues arrest warrant for opposition leader Agence France-Presse Indonesia: Public express concern over Indonesia’s corruption battle Wall Street Journal Mexico: Mexican parties say deal reached on anti-corruption bill Reuters Yemen: Yemen's Saleh netted $60bn through corruption Middle East Monitor US: Ex-NY Assembly Speaker seeks to quash corruption charges Reuters |
Blogs and opinion
Global: Warren Buffett's transparency problem
Newsweek (TI mention) Kazakhstan: Can Kazakhstan contain corruption in Its Olympics bid? Eurasia.net |
News from Transparency International
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Corruption Shows No Sign of Abating in Europe - news story
Investigators prefer to turn a blind eye
to corruption crimes at the level of European funds, which fuels
further criminal activity, believes Vladimir Katin, an analyst from the
Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Global Anticorruption Blog - Anticorruption Policymaking: The Critical Role of Information
"Developing the knowledge required for good policymaking can be
expensive, time-consuming, and intellectually challenging. At the same
time, policymakers are often under pressure to act; the problem is
urgent; the public demands a solution, and they want to address the
nation’s ills, or at least appear to address them, quickly. So policy
is made on the basis of incomplete data, hunches, intuition, and plain
guesswork. The unfortunate result...is almost always a policy failure."
Read more: http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/02/25/anticorruption-policymaking-the-critical-role-of-information/
Read more: http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/02/25/anticorruption-policymaking-the-critical-role-of-information/
Global Anticorruption Blog - More Flagrant Abuse of CPI Numbers by People and Outlets that Should Know Better
"As regular readers of this blog know, I’ve been (figuratively) pounding
my fists on the table for a while now about various misuses and
misinterpretations of Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), particularly in the context of misleading year-to-year comparisons (see here, here, here, here, here, and here). Perhaps I’m overemphasizing a relatively small issue, but it seems that the problem just won’t go away."
Read more: http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/02/24/more-flagrant-abuse-of-cpi-numbers-by-people-and-outlets-that-should-know-better/#more-3245
Read more: http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/02/24/more-flagrant-abuse-of-cpi-numbers-by-people-and-outlets-that-should-know-better/#more-3245
Saturday, February 21, 2015
WSJ - Corruption Currents: Detained Romanian Ex-Minister Seeks Prison Decorations (19 Feb 2015)
WSJ - Corruption
Currents: Detained Romanian Ex-Minister Seeks Prison Decorations (19 Feb
2015). By Samuel Rubenfeld. http://blogs.wsj.com/riskandcompliance/2015/02/19/corruption-currents-detained-romanian-ex-minister-seeks-prison-decorations/
Thursday, February 19, 2015
Rwanda: Civil Society Should Break Shackle of Being Seen As Opponents - UN Envoy
By Stephen Rwembeho
The United Nations is committed to ensuring
a broad-based consultative process in Rwanda to generate debate and civil
society views to enhance sustainable development.
Lamin Manneh, the UN resident coordinator,
while addressing a group of civil society leaders attending a two-day training
in Rwamagana District, said civil society should seek to be a valuable partner
in development rather than to be seen as an opponent.
Mandatory anti-corruption programme urged in Nigerian universities
Feb 18, 2015 -- Nigeria's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission
(ICPC), said on Wednesday that it had commenced collaboration with Nigerian
universities to adopt mandatory anti-corruption programme for first year
students. Mr Ekpo Nta, the Chairman of the Commission, made this known in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
Read more: http://leadership.ng/news/412469/icpc-urges-mandatory-anti-corruption-programme-in-universities
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Transparemncy International - Daily Corruption News (16 Feb 2015)
Today's top story
Brazil: The $100m man’s guide to Brazilian graft
Financial Times One October night in 2011 in Milan, Italy, a group of four Brazilian businessmen linked to Petrobras, Brazil’s state-owned oil operator, sat down for dinner with the manager of a Swiss bank, Banque Cramer. On the menu for the Brazilians was allegedly a plan to create one of the most ambitious corruption schemes their country had seen. |
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Global: HSBC: five questions for a bank that grew too big to control
The Guardian Global: Rolls-Royce says it does not tolerate improper business BBC Brazil: Samba school outrage points to Carnival’s murky financial history NPR China: China takes down senior leader amid anti-corruption campaign Associated Press Iran: Iran's former vice president jailed for corruption The Guardian United States: Bharara sees corruption “all over” New York State Buffalo News |
Blogs and opinion
Dominican Republic: Seguridad Nacional, narcotráfico y financiamiento político (National security, drug trafficking and political finance)
Acento Indonesia: Indonesia faces a crossroads in corruption battle Wall Street Journal Ukraine: Welcome to Ukraine: One of the “biggest kleptocracies in the world” Huffington Post |
News from Transparency International
Web feature: Tackle instability and terrorism by fighting corruptionOn the blog: Secrecy breeds corruption
Transparency International - Daily Corruption News (13 Feb 2015)
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13 February 2015
Today's top story
India: AAP to bring back anti-corruption hotline, Lokpal Bill in House’s second sitting
The Indian Express In a test of Delhi’s unique ties with the Centre, the new AAP government will, within weeks of assuming power on February 14, introduce the Lokpal Bill in the assembly. The anti-corruption hotline will also be revived within days. |
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Global: Juzgamiento de Ciuffardi en Chile será beneficioso para Honduras: TI (The trial of Ciuffardi in Chile will be beneficial for Honduras: TI)
Revistazo (TI mention) China: Military corruption The Economist Indonesia: Threats against Indonesian anti-corruption officials probed Voice of America South Africa: Chaos in parliament as party gets ejected for grilling Zuma over corruption in South Africa The Independent US: Officers allege widespread corruption inside Chicago police department NBC Zambia: Zambia police arrest chief prosecutor over corruption accusations Reuters |
Blogs and opinion
Indonesia: Can Jokowi defeat Indonesia’s corrupt old guard?
Jakarta Globe (TI mention) US: Bill proposes applying sanctions to corruption Risk & Compliance Journal |
News from Transparency International
Web feature: Tackle instability and terrorism by fighting corruptionOn the blog: Secrecy breeds corruption
Monday, February 16, 2015
Mapped: The world's biggest tax havens
By Ashley Kirk
"The Financial
Secrecy Index, which is completed by the Tax Justice Network and ranks the world's
82 largest tax havens, is based on two factors - a territory's financial secrecy
score, and its share of the global market for offshore financial services.
"The list places Switzerland top, followed by
Luxembourg, Hong Kong, Cayman Islands and Singapore.
"Samoa is the most secretive state on the list, with a
score of 88 out of 100. This is based on
fifteen factors, including banking secrecy and company ownership records.
Samoa accounts, however, for less than one per cent of the global market for
offshore financial services."
Global Anticorruption Blog: "Prosecuting Elected Officials for Corruption: A Tale of Four Governors".
"America’s
domestic anti-bribery laws and the attendant court interpretations are, for
lack of a better term, a hot mess. In principle, the crime of bribery is
straightforward: To secure a conviction, the prosecutor need only convince the
jury that (1) there was some agreement (explicit or otherwise) whereby (2) the
official would receive something of value (3) in exchange for using his
official position in some manner. Unfortunately, though, that burden of proof
often becomes far
more complicated when the alleged bribe recipient is a high-ranking elected official." http://globalanticorruptionblog.com/2015/02/13/prosecuting-elected-officials-for-corruption-a-tale-of-four-governors/
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Cambodia's anti-graft agency places cap on gifts to officials
One official at the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) had to give up a $300 bottle of Scotch whisky under a new set of rules on meals and gifts aimed at keeping the unit’s staff beyond suspicion, according to the ACU. Any gift worth more than $25 dollars must now be handed over and held at the anti-graft body’s headquarters while all work-related meals outside the office need pre-approval, according to a statement posted to the ACU’s website. “It will help reduce corruption because it has become a culture in Cambodia,” said Preap Kol, executive director of Transparency International (TI) Cambodia.
Story by Khuon Narim, in The Cambodia Daily. https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-places-cap-on-gifts-to-officials-76905/
Story by Khuon Narim, in The Cambodia Daily. https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/acu-places-cap-on-gifts-to-officials-76905/
Ex-Thai general Prem urges setup of corruption court
Thailand's Privy Council president Gen. Prem Tinsulanonda has urged the government to set up a corruption court to accelerate graft-related cases, which he says usually take too long. "We have many courts - constitutional, justice and tax courts. Wouldn't it be nice if we have a corruption court to exclusively handle graft cases?" he said, during a talk at the National Defence College.
Story in Bangkok Post. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/464209/prem-urges-setup-of-corruption-court
Story in Bangkok Post. http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/politics/464209/prem-urges-setup-of-corruption-court
Nepal election body to take action vs pol parties for non-compliance
Nepal's Election Commission (EC) is preparing to take action against 151 political parties for failing to submit their income and expenditure details to the election body despite repeated requests. Of the 179 parties registered with the election body, only 28 parties have submitted their financial details so far. By law, all political parties in Nepal have to submit income and expenditures to the election body within six months after the end of the fiscal year.
Story in eKantipur. http://www.ekantipur.com/2015/02/02/capital/election-body-to-take-action-for-non-compliance/401156.html
Story in eKantipur. http://www.ekantipur.com/2015/02/02/capital/election-body-to-take-action-for-non-compliance/401156.html
China broadens graft probe into financial sector
The Chinese government's probe into the financial sector comes as part of a broader campaign to root out corruption at major state-run conglomerates. The official Xinhua news agency said on Monday (2 Feb) that anti-graft teams would be sent into 72 major state-run firms, including 19 in the financial and rail sectors.
Story by Engen Tham, Sue-Lin Wong, and Ben Blanchard, in Thomson Reuters Foundation. http://www.trust.org/item/20150203035948-xe6ci/?source=gep
Story by Engen Tham, Sue-Lin Wong, and Ben Blanchard, in Thomson Reuters Foundation. http://www.trust.org/item/20150203035948-xe6ci/?source=gep
The Ethical Alliance Daily (10 Feb 2015)
United States: How Avon’s professionals neglected and avoided China compliance
Published on Feb 10, 2015 11:30 pm
Russia: Russian Officials Slam Anti-Corruption Drive as Attempt to Overthrow Government
Published on Feb 10, 2015 11:00 pm
United States: City building inspectors, contractors to be charged in pay-to-play bribery probe
Published on Feb 10, 2015 10:30 pm
United Kingdom: Theresa May to order probe into collapse of police corruption trial
Published on Feb 10, 2015 10:00 pm
Switzerland: Sudan-Linked Clients Kept U.S.$131 Million in Bank Accounts At HSBC – Report
Published on Feb 10, 2015 09:30 pm
United States: Why it’s virtually impossible for America to help China with its corruption crackdown
Published on Feb 10, 2015 09:00 pm
Australia: Accounts manager fined $1 million for 10-year-long fraud
Published on Feb 10, 2015 08:30 pm
India: Blow for Modi as anti-corruption party sweeps Delhi elections
Published on Feb 10, 2015 08:00 pm
Romania: Romanian Parliament OKs arrest of key politician for corruption probe
Published on Feb 10, 2015 07:30 pm
Ukraine: Yarema dismissed as top prosecutor, official announcement pending
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