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5 Sep 23
The South African government is set to close the department that oversees state companies and launch a new holding company to improve management.
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1 Sep 23
Better understanding the scale and character of corruption will allow the world to push forward with eradicating it and spending that would-be-lost money on development, a senior figure at the United...
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22 Aug 23
Wartime corruption poses a threat to Ukraine’s survival and officials are working to target “truly top officials” engaging in graft, the chief of the country’s anti-corruption agency said.
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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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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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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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21 Sep 22
The Hungarian government has put forward new legislation aimed at improving public procurement and its anti-corruption measures, hours after the European Commission threatened to withhold €7.5bn of...
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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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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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30 Sep 21
Governance and transparency reforms in the Republic of Congo would allow the government access to “much-needed financing”, according to the International Monetary Fund.
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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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21 May 21
Guatemalan authorities have detained critics of the government, including several investigators who built a corruption case against a former president.
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21 Apr 21
Politicians in Nigeria’s major financial centre have set up an anti-corruption agency to investigate officials and contractors suspected of misusing public funds.
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16 Mar 20
Nearly 300 Saudi officials have been arrested during a crackdown on corruption, accused of offences including bribery, embezzlement and abusing their public positions.
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2 Mar 20
A party vowing to stamp out corruption has been given a big win in the Slovakian parliamentary elections on Saturday by an electorate angry at graft.
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21 Jan 20
The Honduran president has insisted that he remains committed to the fight against corruption on the same day his government closed down an anti-graft organisation.
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19 Dec 19
Angola has recovered more than $5bn in stolen assets in 2019 as a result of its efforts to stamp out corruption.
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11 Dec 19
Corruption is a barrier to creating a better, fairer and more equal society, a top UN official has said.
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9 Dec 19
The managing director of the IMF Kristalina Georgieva has hailed Ukraine’s “impressive” economic progress and approved a $5.5bn loan over three years.
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2 Dec 19
A city mayor in Kurdistan will lead a regional anti-corruption campaign, he has told reporters.
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8 Nov 19
An anti-graft programme has been adopted by Budapest’s new municipal assembly, which hopes to make its finances and operations more transparent.
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9 Sep 19
People pushing thousands of smaller cases through the Supreme Anticorruption Court of Ukraine could hamper work to punish unscrupulous officials, the country’s president has said.
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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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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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11 Apr 19
Trinidad and Tobago’s government has passed an “unexplained wealth” law that gives authorities the power to seize the profits of crime.