On July 22 Ukraine’s parliament approved without debate or warning legislation sharply curbing the independence of Ukraine’s corruption fighting agencies. Nine days later it okayed a second bill largely repealing the curbs. In between were massive demonstrations by citizens protesting … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
Thanks to a last-minute legal maneuver, defendants in Namibia’s largest ever corruption case again escaped answering for their crimes. Set to start August 5, their trial was postponed pending a ruling on a long-shot motion to invalidate all pre-trial rulings. … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
As a party to the OECD Antibribery Convention, Italy is bound by international law to investigate any Italian citizen or company alleged to have bribed an official of another government. In pursuing a case, the treaty requires that Italy “not … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
President Zelensky is proposing legislation that supporters say remedies the problem Parliament created Tuesday by enacting Law No. 4555-IX (English translation). As yesterday’s post explained, that law gives the Prosecutor General unchecked power to The simple way to undo the … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
Tuesday’s approval of a law curing the independence of Ukraine’s anticorruption agency and the special prosecutor for corruption has sparked a furious backlash from citizens, NGOs, and Ukraine’s international partners. In today’s Guest Post Oksana Nesterenko, the Executive Director of … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
Anton Moiseienko, Senior Lecturer and Research Director at the Australian National University Law School, introduces GAB readers to his new book on AML with the following observation — The contemporary anti-money laundering (AML) regime effectively prevents criminal infiltration of the … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
Ukraine’s National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU), the independent agency responsible for investigating corruption, was searched July 21 by agents of the State Security Office and the Prosecutor General’s Office. In a post on X, NABU says no warrant or other legal … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
On July 7 the U.N. Human Rights Council approved without dissent a resolution stressing the close link between the advancement of human rights and the fight against corruption. It unequivocally and without qualification proclaims what advocates of each have long … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
Not really. That’s the answer Mirko Nazzari and Peter Reuter provide at the conclusion to their comprehensive review of the evidence on the impact of the global AML scheme. Nazzari, a postdoctoral research fellow in Political Science at the Università … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
In a June 5 submission to Kathleen Roussel, Chair of the OECD Working Group on Bribery, three NGOs have asked the group to find Italy has failed to prevent political interference in a case where, in the face of overwhelming … Continue reading →| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Iva Parvanova just released a report on corruption in 41 European nations, EU members plus those seeking to join the EU and those that neighbor these countries. A joint pub…| GAB | The Global Anticorruption Blog
