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15 Jan 19
South Africa has recently been plagued by controlled power cuts organised by the single, state-owned electricity provider Eskom - a firm integral to the country’s economy but mired in accusations of...
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14 Jan 19
European Union bosses have warned Romania there will be “no compromise” in the fight against corruption, as it took over the bloc’s presidency.
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11 Jan 19
Guatemala’s constitutional court has blocked the government’s decision to kick out a UN-backed anti-corruption body, which has been investigating the country’s president.
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10 Jan 19
More drive and leadership is needed in the EU to effectively tackle fraud, auditors have urged.
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2 Jan 19
Brazil’s president has vowed to fight corruption, clamp down on crime and build a society “without discrimination or division”, in his inaugural speech this week.
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17 Dec 18
Brexit will be a “unique opportunity” for the UK to work with international partners to combat corruption.
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10 Dec 18
Armenia’s acting prime minister has won the majority of the vote in the country’s snap election on a promise to tackle corruption and reform the economy.
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3 Dec 18
South Africa’s struggling state-run power firm Eskom has warned the country faces more power cuts, on the fifth day of controlled so-called ‘load-shedding’.
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30 Nov 18
Public sector accountants have a responsibility to protect data as well as money, a top justice official has told PF International.
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30 Nov 18
Public and the private finance professionals across the globe need to collaborate to fight “innovative” criminals, a European event on fraud in the digital age heard.
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26 Nov 18
South Africa needs to take the fight against corruption “seriously” and stamp it out at local level, the president has said in his annual speech to the upper house.
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26 Nov 18
Plans to step up the European Union’s anti-fraud work are “not enough to improve effectiveness”, the bloc’s auditors have warned.
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19 Nov 18
Romania’s prime minister has said the country is ready to take over the European Union presidency next year, despite criticism about its judiciary reforms.
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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.