Imagine billions of dollars siphoned from public funds – money meant to build schools, hospitals and infrastructure – vanishing into a web of offshore accounts, luxury real estate and shell companies.

Berlin, 12 December 2024 – Today, Transparency International issued a wide-ranging set of policy recommendations that will, if applied, provide an effective bulwark against the corrupting effects of ...

Money is essential for political participation. Political parties and candidates require financial and other resources to organise themselves, formulate their ideas, and communicate them to the public ...

Public procurement, the process through which governments purchase goods and services from private companies, is an essential mechanism for effective governance and the public good, from ...

Public procurement – the government purchase of goods, services and works – accounts for a substantial portion of public spending in most countries. It is not only a crucial component of public ...

This year was the biggest election year in history. Around 2 billion people – close to a quarter of the world's population – cast their votes worldwide. Although elections were largely free and fair, ...

Imagine reporting serious misconduct at work, expecting justice, and instead losing your job. That’s exactly what happened to Jan Benýšek, the head of the insolvency division at the Czech Ministry of ...

We work to close the loopholes in the global financial system that allow corruption schemes to thrive, and money stolen from people to be laundered and hidden. Corruption can no longer be dealt with ...

Three years on: Are whistleblowers any safer in the EU?

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption, according to experts and businesspeople. The 2022 CPI analyses the ...

Corruption is a scourge that hurts ordinary people every day across the Americas. And when they speak out about it, far too often they face retaliation. Almost two thirds of people that we surveyed ...

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