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21 Aug 19
Whistleblowers in Ukraine could be paid up to 10% of the value of the corruption they expose, if laws currently being drafted are put into place.
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19 Aug 19
Sudan’s ex-president has admitted to receiving millions of dollars from Saudi Arabia, a detective has told a court at the start of a corruption trial.
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19 Aug 19
Scammers have increasingly been using the World Bank’s name to give authenticity to ‘advance fee' fraud schemes.
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16 Aug 19
South African president Cyril Ramaphosa has won the latest round in his legal battle against an anti-corruption watchdog.
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12 Aug 19
New Zealand and Switzerland have made a deal they hope will make it harder for multinational companies to dodge paying tax.
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12 Aug 19
While some progress has been made on improving international ethical standards across the public finance sector there is still much to do, says CIPFA chief executive Rob Whiteman.
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9 Aug 19
A decline in Latvia’s population could pose a barrier to long-term growth for the country, according to the IMF.
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6 Aug 19
Cryptocurrency transactions in Brazil must now be reported to the government’s tax office in a bid by the authorities to hamper gang activity.
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1 Aug 19
A Chinese billionaire allegedly avoided paying $1.8bn in ‘anti-dumping duties’ on aluminium brought into the US.
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29 Jul 19
Iraq has been warned that its fiscal position is expected to deteriorate without policy changes as it continues to face “daunting” challenges.
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26 Jul 19
Zimbabwe’s anti-corruption watchdog has detained a senior government official for the first time since it was launched earlier this month.
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22 Jul 19
South Africa’s leader has been accused by a watchdog of violating ethics rules in a setback to his anti-corruption drive.
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9 Jul 19
Critics of an anti-corruption campaign launched by Pakistan’s leader have said it is damaging the economy as officials fearful of being suspected put projects on hold.
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5 Jul 19
A prominent Iraqi cleric has reportedly called for a “slow coup” to replace senior government officials for a failure to tackle growing corruption.
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2 Jul 19
Latin American and Caribbean countries must bolster their capacity to mobilise public revenues by strengthening tax collection if they are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
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2 Jul 19
A flagship policy to create a digital society in India has been praised by the country’s leader for significantly reducing corruption.
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27 Jun 19
A government commission has been launched into a $1.2bn loan borrowed by Papua New Guinea’s previous government after a damning report by a watchdog.
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13 Jun 19
The owner of a US contractor has pleaded guilty to helping defraud the government of $346m in a major ‘rent-a-vet’ scam case.
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11 Jun 19
The world’s leading economies are edging closer towards a consensus on reforming the global tax system to ensure that multinational corporations pay their fair share.
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10 Jun 19
Large protests have signalled growing public discontent with the economic policies and failure to tackle corruption of Liberia’s former footballer turned president.
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4 Jun 19
The European Commission has called for Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš to repay millions of euros in subsidies after finding him to be in conflict of interest, according to reports of a draft...
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30 May 19
Brazil’s senate has voted to approve president Jair Bolsonaro’s revamp of executive government and to keep the government’s anti-money laundering department out of the control of the justice ministry.
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30 May 19
Tax havens luring companies engaged in cross-border trade with rock-bottom rates are destroying the century-old global corporate tax system, says an international network.
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28 May 19
The man widely described as ‘Romania’s most powerful politician’ has been jailed on corruption charges relating to a fake jobs scandal.
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28 May 19
Cyril Ramaphosa has been inaugurated president of South Africa amid signs that the ruling party has been badly dented by corruption scandals.