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TI on linkages between gender and corruption
This analysis reveals that deeply ingrained discriminatory and gender-based factors impede women’s ability to report corruption, and seek and obtain redress. Due to their social roles, childcare and housework responsibilities, as well as gendered income inequalities, women lack…
US DoJ Anti-corruption Task Force
US DoJ announced a tip line to help assist its Anticorruption Task Force fight corruption in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, a key component of the Vice President’s work to address the root causes of migration. Corruption and impunity in the region undermine…
NCA issue advisory on payment diversion fraud
Payment Diversion Fraud (PDF) is a key example calculated crime. PDF, also known as Business Email Compromise (BEC) or Mandate Fraud, involves criminals impersonating others, creating or amending invoices and diverting payments to bank accounts under their own control…
US Members of Congress announces the Enablers Act
The ENABLERS Act would impose stronger due diligence requirements on such U.S.-based middlemen, to ensure that the US never again facilitates the corruption and dictatorship we claim to oppose by giving kleptocrats and criminals a safe haven for the money they steal…
OECD on corruption in infrastructure
The OECD will develop an Infrastructure Anti-corruption Toolbox (I ACT) which will build the capacity of stakeholders to implement
effective anti-corruption systems based on international standards. Corruption and a lack of trust threaten to reduce the benefits of…
SFO secures third set of Petrofac bribery convictions
The SFO has secured the conviction of Petrofac Limited for seven separate counts of failure to prevent bribery between 2011 and 2017. Petrofac admitted that senior executives of the Petrofac Group paid GBP 32 million (USD 44 million) in bribes to corrupt the awarding…
OECD on illicit financial flows in oil & gas commodity trade
Oil trade activities constitute the most significant source of domestic resource mobilisation for oil producing developing countries. Yet, corruption and illicit financial flows (IFFs) also expose them to macro-critical risks of economic instability, exacerbating their often-high…
Basel Institute on corruption
Basel Institute publishes research on revealing the networks behind corruption and ML schemes, using the Toledo–Odebrecht case…
IMF working paper on sentiment-enhanced CPI
This paper constructs a new non-survey based perceptions index for 111 countries by applying sentiment analysis to Financial Times articles over 2005–18…
ISO 37002 – Whistleblowing management systems
ISO issues guidance on standard 37002, which relates to whistleblowing management systems – to organizations for establishing, implementing, maintaining and improving a whistleblowing management system…
US DoJ sentences leader of a sophisticated drug trafficking organization
The Mexican national was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to 22 years in prison for her role in an international drug trafficking conspiracy to transport into the US…
SFO secures two DPAs with companies
SFO secures two DPAs with companies for Bribery Act offences. The two DPAs share a common Statement of Facts. The criminal conduct saw bribes paid in relation…