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TI-UK Anti-Corruption Focus Newsletter, May 2011
May 2011
Anti-Corruption Focus
Transparency International UK’s Quarterly Newsletter
Top Twelve Stories
TI-UK's selection of 12 interesting articles or reports about corruption published during the past quarter.
- Green schemes are wide open to corruption
News report on TI warnings in Global Corruption Report. TI’s Huguette Labelle quoted
Independent on Sunday (1 May) - Investment groups seek Bribery Act assurance
Letter from investment community concerned at rumours on application of Bribery Act to overseas companies
Financial Times (29 March) - UK Bribery Act may offer overseas firms loophole
Report on publication of Bribery Act Guidance. TI-UK quoted
Reuters (30 March) - Kenneth Clarke denies weakening anti-bribery law
Report on reaction to Government Guidance. Extensive TI-UK quotes
Guardian (30 March) - Guide undermines excellent new law
Letter to editor from TI-UK on weaknesses in Bribery Act official guidance
Financial Times (7 April) - Exports warning as Bribery Act is delayed
Report on response to delay in Bribery Act from chair of OECD anti-bribery group, Mark Pieth.
Financial Times (31 January) - British firms face bribery blacklist, warns corruption watchdog
News report on delay to Bribery Act Guidelines. TI-UK and Mark Pieth OECD quoted.
Guardian.co.uk (31 January) - Calls grow for scrutiny of family finances
Report on Gaddafi assets. TI’s Huguette Labelle quoted.
Financial Times (22 February) - Russia’s chief whistleblower wants to jail the corrupt
Interview with corruption whistleblower.
Guardian.co.uk (23 February) - Campaigners fear loophole in anti-graft laws
News report on how decisions over whether foreign companies fall under Bribery Act will be in the courts’ hands
Financial Times (23 March) - Fourth Euro MP named in lobbying scandal
News report following Sunday Times undercover reporting of MEP ‘cash for laws’ scandal
bbc.co.uk (28 March) - Business chief says Bribery Act leaves too much uncertainty
Outgoing CBI head claims Bribery Act puts jobs and growth at risk.
Evening Standard (25 January)
Dear Members and Supporters
1. Recent highlights
The first few months of 2011 were dominated by the continued delay to implementation of the Bribery Act, and our intensifying ‘no dilution, no delay’ campaign. But February saw a burst of media interest in a different topic prompted by the surging ‘Arab Spring’. Journalists’ questions about the fate of corrupt dictators’ stolen assets prompted TI-UK to issue a press release calling for an urgent four-point action plan by the UK Government. As a result, I was interviewed on money laundering and the recovery of looted assets by BBC radio’s ‘PM’ programme and quoted in two major feature spreads in the Times in the weeks that followed.
