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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.
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31 Aug 21
Solutions to fixing public procurement already exist – the challenge lies in the political will of governments to implement them.
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19 Aug 21
CIPFA worked with Bangladesh’s ministry of finance to bring the country’s public financial framework into the 21st century.
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13 Aug 21
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has told politicians that corruption which has plagued the African National Congress poses an “existential threat”, after his predecessor Jacob Zuma was jailed...
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13 Jul 21
The need to act fast to save lives is a poor excuse for Covid-19 procurement scandals – better crisis preparation is needed.
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5 Jul 21
Brazil’s supreme court has authorised an investigation into president Jair Bolsonaro’s response to a Covid-19 vaccine procurement deal amid allegations he ignored irregularities in the process.
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30 Jun 21
Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after failing to attend a corruption inquiry, fearing “significant damage to the rule of law” if he was not...
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29 Jun 21
A university in Kenya has faced criticism after dismissing a senior accountant involved in an ongoing legal case concerning a former vice-chancellor.
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14 Jun 21
Counterfeit or poor quality medical equipment proliferated in Europe amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the European Union’s anti-fraud bureau.
23 Jun 22African 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...
14 Jun 22The 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.
19 May 22The Nigerian anti-corruption agency has arrested the country’s accountant general during an investigation into fraud and money laundering.
26 Apr 22Tax 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-...
26 Apr 22Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a worrying trend among advanced economies, says Kirtsy Stanners.
6 Apr 22The 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.
2 Mar 22A 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.
27 Jan 22South 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,...
20 Jan 22The 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.
13 Jan 22Malaysia 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.
24 Nov 21The 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...
8 Nov 21More 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.
26 Oct 21Cultural resistance and poor-quality financial data present hurdles to achieving real-time auditing of public spending.
20 Oct 21A 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...
1 Oct 21New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian has resigned after corruption investigators announced they were looking into whether she had acted dishonestly regarding public grant funding.
14 Sep 21Transparency 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...
2 Sep 21The US government lost more than $90bn of its emergency pandemic aid to fraud and error, a watchdog’s report has found.
31 Aug 21Solutions to fixing public procurement already exist – the challenge lies in the political will of governments to implement them.
19 Aug 21CIPFA worked with Bangladesh’s ministry of finance to bring the country’s public financial framework into the 21st century.
13 Aug 21South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has told politicians that corruption which has plagued the African National Congress poses an “existential threat”, after his predecessor Jacob Zuma was jailed...
13 Jul 21The need to act fast to save lives is a poor excuse for Covid-19 procurement scandals – better crisis preparation is needed.
5 Jul 21Brazil’s supreme court has authorised an investigation into president Jair Bolsonaro’s response to a Covid-19 vaccine procurement deal amid allegations he ignored irregularities in the process.
30 Jun 21Former South African president Jacob Zuma has been sentenced to 15 months in prison after failing to attend a corruption inquiry, fearing “significant damage to the rule of law” if he was not...
29 Jun 21A university in Kenya has faced criticism after dismissing a senior accountant involved in an ongoing legal case concerning a former vice-chancellor.
