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World Anti-Corruption Day – Time for Nigeria to Get Its Act Together and Save Itself from International Opprobrium

9 December 2012. By resolution 58/4 of October 31, 2003, the UN General Assembly designated December 9 as International Anti-Corruption Day. This decision aimed to raise people’s awareness of corruption and of the role of the United Nations Convention against…

Ahead of Anti-Corruption Day, GFI Reviews the Major Developments of 2012

Washington DC, 7 December 2012, Global Financial Integrity. This post was originally published on the Global Financial Integrity website. As the world observes International Anti-Corruption Day this Sunday, December 9, 2012, Global Financial Integrity highlighted some of the most notable…

Germany feels some pressure on UNCAC ratification

4 December 2012, by Christian Humborg, Transparency International Deutschland. Germany’s snail-paced progress towards ratification of the UNCAC received a new impetus with a letter signed last August 2012 by more than 30 German CEOs, including 26 of the DAX 30…

Struggling for Transparency in Spain

30 November 2012, by Lydia Medland and Victoria Anderica, Access Info Europe. Spain remains the only country in Europe with more than a million inhabitants without an access to information law. As a State Party to the UNCAC, the lack…

Missing $12.4bn oil windfall ruling a setback in the fight against corruption, says SERAP

30 November 2012. Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has described as “disappointing” and “a setback in the fight against large scale official corruption” the ruling yesterday by an Abuja Federal High Court presided over by Justice Gabriel Kolawole which…

The Public Clarifies What Millions for Corruption Fighting Were Wasted For

Kiev, 28 November 2012. Today, November 28, is the first anniversary of the State Program of Corruption Fighting and Prevention in Ukraine for 2011–2015. It has been adopted by the Government for implementation of the National Anti-Corruption Strategy approved by…

Inside Job: How crooks set up the largest bank in Afghanistan and then robbed it for almost $1 billion

28 November 2012, Global Witness. The first official analysis of the “Kabul Bank Crisis” of 2010 reveals an urgent need for reform in the international banking system, said Global Witness today. The “Report of the Public Inquiry into the Kabul…

Egyptian Asset Recovery: Nil Returns to Date from the UK

27 November 2012, by Tim Daniel. In February 2012, President Hosni Mubarak was forced from power in Egypt, crowning what came to be called the ‘Arab Spring’. The crowds gathered in Tahrir Square had for months condemned Mubarak’s regime as…

Equatorial Guinea takes France to the International Court of Justice

27 November 2012, by Maud Perdriel-Vaissière, SHERPA. A unique opportunity to rule on immunity in grand corruption cases On 26 September 2012, Equatorial Guinean authorities announced that they had filed a case against France in the International Court of Justice…

Coalition workshop at 15th IACC: Joining forces to make UNCAC work

23 November 2012, by Gillian Dell and Kristen Brand, Transparency International. On the final day of the 15th IACC in Brasilia (7-10 November 2012), 67 IACC participants joined 6 panellists at a Coalition workshop entitled “Joining forces for enforcement: Making…