Corruption Warnings Increase as Governments Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic / Panama Papers Four Years On / For Myanmar Muslims, religious freedom founders in red tape

Corruption Warnings Increase as Governments Respond to COVID-19 Pandemic (Opinion). “ National governments are under enormous pressure to fast-track emergency relief and purchase essential supplies to stem the tide of the COVID-19 pandemic. But as officials ramp up emergency responses, watch dogs and experts are sounding the alarm over the ballooning risks of corruption and misappropriation during the crisis.” 

 

Benjamin Schmidt / CIPE: https://acgc.cipe.org/business-of-integrity-blog/corruption-warnings-increase-as-governments-respond-to-covid-19-pandemic/ 

 

 

Panama Papers Four Years On: Anonymous Companies and Global Wealth. “Four years, countless scandals and a Netflix movie later, there has been significant progress but tax justice and corporate secrecy continue to be pressing problems. Abuse of anonymous shell companies is among the reasons why many countries are facing greater challenges today in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. For years, they have enabled corruption, fraud and tax evasion. This has meant that taxes and public resources that could have served to improve healthcare systems, did not arrive or were embezzled from public coffers.” 

 

Transparency International:  

https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/panama_papers_four_years_anonymous_companies_corporate_secrecy 

 

 

For Myanmar Muslims, religious freedom founders in red tape (Opinion). “A committee trying to resurrect shuttered and burned-down mosques has been frustrated by government bureaucracy, leaving many Muslim communities without local places of worship.” 

 

Eaint Thet Su / Frontier Myanmar: https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/for-myanmar-muslims-religious-freedom-founders-in-red-tape