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3 Feb 23
To tackle corruption, we need to focus on prevention rather than cure.
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8 Dec 22
Anti-graft investigators in Malaysia have opened a case looking at alleged “misappropriation” of 600bn ringgit (£112bn) of government spending.
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6 Dec 22
Glencore will pay $180m to the Democratic Republic of Congo in order to “address the consequences of its past conduct” in the country, amid investigations into alleged corrupt practices there.
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28 Nov 22
A collection of case studies and best practices from around the world is aimed at showing how every public sector professional can play their part in protecting public money from fraud and corruption.
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31 Oct 22
Government exposure to cyber attacks is growing because so many of their operations have become digital, and with such attacks becoming a significant feature of geopolitics the risk to public...
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24 Oct 22
A fresh attempt has been made to end graft in South Africa’s institutions.
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26 Sep 22
The US labour watchdog has identified more than $45bn of potentially fraudulent unemployment benefit claims during Covid-19 – almost triple initial forecasts.
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22 Sep 22
Poor government leadership has left South Africa rife with corruption and with high poverty, crumbling infrastructure and human rights abuses, a pressure group has said.
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23 Jun 22
African countries continued to strengthen their efforts aimed at tackling tax evasion and other illicit financial flows last year, a report has found, but the continent continues to lose billions of...
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14 Jun 22
The level of fraud or overpayments of unemployment benefits made by the US government soared by almost tenfold in 2021, according to the national spending watchdog.
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19 May 22
The Nigerian anti-corruption agency has arrested the country’s accountant general during an investigation into fraud and money laundering.
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26 Apr 22
Tax campaigners have urged world leaders to create a global asset registry to help deal with tax havens that they say deprive governments, particularly in the developing world, of billions in much-...
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26 Apr 22
Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a worrying trend among advanced economies, says Kirtsy Stanners.
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6 Apr 22
The European Commission has begun the formal process of keeping money from Hungary over “corruption” issues, announcing the move two days after the reelection of prime minister Viktor Orban.
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2 Mar 22
A Court of Justice Decision to allow the European Union to withhold money from countries that fail to meet democratic standards has been named as a threat to Hungary and Poland.
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27 Jan 22
South African officials failed to follow procurement rules when buying personal protective equipment at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, representing a “complete breakdown” of the system,...
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20 Jan 22
The chairman of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption agency has resigned amid efforts by a new government to draw up laws to intensify the country’s work combating widespread graft.
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13 Jan 22
Malaysia has said money it has recovered related to its state-owned scandal-hit fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad will only pay off the principal amount of its debt this year.
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24 Nov 21
The European Commission’s estimates of irregularities in EU cohesion policy spending represent only “a minimum level” of error and cannot be considered final figures, the bloc’s fiscal watchdog has...
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8 Nov 21
More than half of all public sector organisations do not have specific policies to combat fraud in the Canadian province of British Columbia, a survey has found.
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26 Oct 21
Cultural resistance and poor-quality financial data present hurdles to achieving real-time auditing of public spending.
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20 Oct 21
A Swiss bank which made "tainted loans" for government projects in Mozambique has been fined $475m by UK and US authorities over "serious financial crime", and will also write off $200m of debt owed...
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1 Oct 21
New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned after corruption investigators announced they were looking into whether she had acted dishonestly regarding public grant funding.
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14 Sep 21
Transparency rules, digitalisation and a code of conduct for officials sit at the heart of measures to strengthen government procurement processes, writes Ljupco Nikolovski, deputy prime minister of...
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2 Sep 21
The US government lost more than $90bn of its emergency pandemic aid to fraud and error, a watchdog’s report has found.