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16 Nov 18
Can Mexico’s new president fund his ‘peaceful social revolution’ by tackling corruption? Asks Gavin O’Toole.
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12 Nov 18
Ukraine needs to do more to fight corruption and maintain reform momentum, the European Commission has said in a report.
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12 Nov 18
A former deputy labour minister in Vietnam has been arrested on allegations of financial mismanagement as part of a crackdown on corruption.
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7 Nov 18
South Africa is stepping up its efforts to “win this battle” against corruption, the chair of the country’s upper house of parliament has said.
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7 Nov 18
Corruption and money laundering are the “biggest hurdles” stopping Pakistan from developing and pulling people out of poverty, prime minister Imran Khan has warned.
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5 Nov 18
European governments are still making it too easy for multinational corporations to avoid paying corporation tax, campaigners have warned.
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5 Nov 18
Brazil’s president-elect has appointed a prominent anti-corruption judge to join his parliament as head of the justice ministry.
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31 Oct 18
The United Arab Emirates has passed a law to combat money laundering and terrorism financing.
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30 Oct 18
Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with six counts of criminal breach of trust related to a case where billions of dollars went missing from a state fund.
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30 Oct 18
More than 45 governments, businesses and organisations signed a joint commitment to step up their fight against corruption and money laundering last week.
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30 Oct 18
Brazil’s newly elected populist president Jair Bolsonaro has pledged to reform government finances and tackle corruption.
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26 Oct 18
Facts and figures from the international edition of Public Finance magazine on homicide, spending on unemployment benefits and the rise in urban living.
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24 Oct 18
Moving public services online and adopting an e-governance approach could help governments fight fraud and corruption, the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.
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23 Oct 18
In the second of our regular fraud columns CIPFA’s Les Dobie looks at ways to tackle corruption globally against a backdrop of an ever-shifting threat.
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23 Oct 18
The UK government has called on countries across the world to compile lists of companies with anonymous owners to help crack down on corruption.
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22 Oct 18
Romania’s reforms to criminal justice legislation will “seriously weaken” the fight against corruption, a European advisory body has warned.
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12 Oct 18
The wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has been charged with money laundering and tax evasion as part of a corruption investigation.
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8 Oct 18
Ex-president of South Korea Lee Myung-bak has been jailed for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest high-profile politician to receive graft charges.
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8 Oct 18
Romania’s proposed changes to the judiciary could mean a dangerous backslide on its progress in tackling corruption, the European Commission’s vice president has warned.
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2 Oct 18
The European Union has removed the Pacific island of Palau from its list of tax havens after the country committed to making changes to its tax system.
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1 Oct 18
Brazilian state-owned energy company Petrobras has agreed to pay the US and Brazil a $853m corruption fine.
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25 Sep 18
The world may never win the fight against corruption but governments must ensure they stay on top of issues, CIPFA’s head of counter fraud training has said.
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24 Sep 18
Poor countries need to collectively spend an additional $520bn a year on key public services and infrastructure if they are going to meet the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, according to...
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20 Sep 18
The former Malaysian prime minister has been charged with 21 additional counts of money laundering and four counts of abuse of power.
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18 Sep 18
Four of the world’s biggest pharmaceutical companies could be avoiding paying about $3.8bn in corporate tax, Oxfam has warned.