On Monday, Justice Minister Michael Keenan announced that a new team of 26 specialist investigators, lawyers, forensic accountants, based in Perth, Melbourne, and Sydney, will be honing in on corporate corruption. The particular focus will be foreign bribery. This comes … Read the rest
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LIVESTREAM The Anti-Corruption Summit – London, UK
The Anti-Corruption Summit is currently being held in London.
You can watch the Summit live on The Guardian’s website HERE http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/may/12/david-cameron-london-anti-corruption-summit-live
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Exposure and Accessibility in the Public Interest
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has announced it will release an interactive and searchable database of firms, companies, trusts, foundations, tax havens, linking people in over 200 countries and territories, implicated in the Panama Papers investigation. The release of … Read the rest
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Calls for Action: Increasing Concerns of Corporate Corruption within Australia
With the recent spotlight on Unaoil’s role in facilitating bribery on a global scale, calls have been made for individual countries, Australia included, to increase (or implement) measures to prevent such behaviour.
Late last week, Transparency International Chair, Anthony Whealy … Read the rest
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Part 2: Unaoil’s expansion into former Soviet states and commencement of international investigations
Part Two of the exposure of Unaoil’s astounding global reach investigates the company’s corruption of high-level government officials and businessmen, and fraudulent contractual arrangements in former Soviet states. Managers from Italian oil company Eni, US firm Halliburton and Kellogg Brown … Read the rest
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Part 1: Near Perfect Corruption – Unaoil and its Global Network
In a series of three articles, Fairfax Media and Huffington Post, expose a global network of bribery and corruption, orchestrated by Monaco-based family business, Unaoil. Following a six-month investigation, these articles reveal that between 2002-2012 Unaoil paid bribes on behalf
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Corruption scandal potentially tarnishing Chile’s reputation as a Latin American bastion of the rule of law
James M.Roberts, a research fellow with the heritage project writing for the Daily Signal, talks about a corruption scandal involving an intersection of political and mining interests in Chile. This is important from a legal corruption point of view because … Read the rest