Is tax a moral issue?
It was a surprise to read in yesterday’s Guardian and elsewhere the remarks of Sir Roger Carr, President of the CBI, that tax avoidance "cannot be about morality – there are no absolutes".
Whistleblowing in the UK
60% of whistleblowers receive no response from management, says a report released this week by Public Concern at Work on the experience of whistleblowers.
Ghost money: Is the CIA its own worst enemy?
Depressing but not shocking: that would be the reaction of most to reports that the CIA and MI6 have given large amounts of cash to senior members of the Afghan government to buy influence.
Fake bomb detectors deliver the latest casualties of corruption
Yesterday, the British ‘businessman’ James McCormick was found guilty of fraud for selling millions of pounds worth of utterly useless bomb detectors to governments around the world, including a major contract in Iraq.
Affaire Cahuzac – Pour un sursaut national
In the wake of recent events in France, the Board of Transparency International France call on French citizens – at home and abroad - to become active in the fight against corruption:
Asset Disclosure
It has been striking how far and how quickly France has moved towards asset disclosure by government ministers in recent weeks, with parliamentarians to follow if a new law is passed. Striking also that when political will exists, galvanised by public outrage, transparency is not so hard to achieve after all.
Money laundering - are BVI leaks a game changer?
The recent leaks of information about who actually owns the companies registered in the British Virgin Islands offer a first glimpse for many people into this very murky world.
Time for an anti-corruption Millennium Development Goal?
This week the United Nations is bringing experts and world leaders to Indonesia to debate development priorities beyond 2015, when the Millennium Development Goals expire. Good governance tops the list of what to add to the current eight targets.
New efforts to kill off the Bribery Act
Is there an assault being mounted to undermine the Bribery Act – before it has had a chance to take effect?
Transparency International Summer School on Integrity
The Summer School aims to provide participants from across the world with an opportunity to learn first-hand from professionals working in the anti-corruption field.
