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THE “BIG GOVERNMENT CAUSES CORRUPTION” ZOMBIE SHAMBLES ON The “Big Government Causes Corruption” Zombie Shambles On. I don’t make a practice of responding to opinion columns in mainstream newspapers, especially when they’re not specifically or primarily about corruption. But the opening of Bret Stephens’ piece in yesterday’s New York Times caught my eye, mainly because the columnused
PERU’S MISGUIDED PROPOSAL FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be GUEST POST: A BLEAK FUTURE FOR INDONESIA’S ANTICORRUPTION GAB is pleased to welcome back Sofie Arjon Schütte, Senior Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, to contribute today's guest post: Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its acronym KPK, was established during Indonesia’s reformation period in the early 2000s, and quickly became one of the world’s most powerful and independent anticorruption WALKING FREE ON STOLEN TIME, NAJIB SEES 1MDB APPEAL When $681 million ended up in the personal bank account of then-Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak, he thought it was a political donation from the King of Saudi Arabia. Sure, it’s strange that the King transferred such a large sum directly into Najib’s personal account as opposed to that of a government institution, and THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEXICO’S UPCOMING REFERENDUM ON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly known as AMLO) has repeatedly assailed Mexico’s former presidents as corrupt. However, despite his attacks, AMLO has said that he does not want to pursue criminal actions against his predecessors. Therefore, AMLO raised eyebrows this past September when he called for a referendum that asks citizens to vote LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION Posted on May 31, 2021 by Mayze Teitler. 1. Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF INDIA’S CORONAVIRUS CRISIS India’s unfathomable Covid tragedy has left the country gasping for breath, and no oxygen can be found. Hospitals are overrun, and are often unable to help even those lucky enough to be admitted. Desperate relatives are turning to social media and the black market for help, as beleaguered crematoriums shift from unprecedented 24/7 hours to the horrors of mass cremation to keep up with JOHNSTON AND FRITZEN: THE CONUNDRUM OF CORRUPTION Michael Johnston had done it again. A -- if not the -- dean of corruption studies has a new book out. This one a collaboration with a real dean, Scott Fritzen, professor at the University of Oklahoma and dean of its College of International Studies. The two’s TheConundrum of
THE “BIG GOVERNMENT CAUSES CORRUPTION” ZOMBIE SHAMBLES ON The “Big Government Causes Corruption” Zombie Shambles On. I don’t make a practice of responding to opinion columns in mainstream newspapers, especially when they’re not specifically or primarily about corruption. But the opening of Bret Stephens’ piece in yesterday’s New York Times caught my eye, mainly because the columnused
PERU’S MISGUIDED PROPOSAL FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be GUEST POST: A BLEAK FUTURE FOR INDONESIA’S ANTICORRUPTION GAB is pleased to welcome back Sofie Arjon Schütte, Senior Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, to contribute today's guest post: Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its acronym KPK, was established during Indonesia’s reformation period in the early 2000s, and quickly became one of the world’s most powerful and independent anticorruption WALKING FREE ON STOLEN TIME, NAJIB SEES 1MDB APPEAL When $681 million ended up in the personal bank account of then-Prime Minister of Malaysia Najib Razak, he thought it was a political donation from the King of Saudi Arabia. Sure, it’s strange that the King transferred such a large sum directly into Najib’s personal account as opposed to that of a government institution, and THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEXICO’S UPCOMING REFERENDUM ON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly known as AMLO) has repeatedly assailed Mexico’s former presidents as corrupt. However, despite his attacks, AMLO has said that he does not want to pursue criminal actions against his predecessors. Therefore, AMLO raised eyebrows this past September when he called for a referendum that asks citizens to vote LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO).Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to ANTICORRUPTION BIBLIOGRAPHY–JUNE 2021 UPDATE 23 hours ago · An updated version of my anticorruption bibliography is available from my faculty webpage. A direct link to the pdf of the full bibliography is here, and a list of the new sources added in this update is here. Additionally, the bibliography is available in more user-friendly, searchable from at Global Integrity's Anti-CorruptionCorpus website.
GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – a small, arid swath of land that its Western-educated monarch jokes is “between Iraq and a hard place” – teems with corruption.Most Jordanians often have no choice but to pay bribes for public services. Members of the government and the royal family regularly siphon money from public contracts and foreign aid projects.JAKE SULLIVAN
1 day ago · Last Thursday President Biden officially declared what corruption fighter have long known: “Corruption corrodes public trust; hobbles effective governance; distorts markets and equitable access to services; undercuts development efforts; contributes to national fragility, extremism, and migration; and provides authoritarian leaders a means to undermine democracies worldwide. HOW RELIABLE ARE GLOBAL QUANTITATIVE CORRUPTION STATISTICS Those who work in the anticorruption field are likely familiar with the frequent citation of quantitative estimates of the amount and impact of global corruption. Indeed, it has become commonplace for speeches and reports about the corruption problem to open with such statistics—including, for example, the claim that approximately US$1 trillion in bribes are paid SOUTH KOREA’S NEW CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION OFFICE NEEDS When South Korean President Moon Jae-in took office, it was clear that fighting corruption was going to be high on his agenda. After all, his predecessor Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years for pressuring conglomerates such as Samsung and Lotte to give millions of dollars to her friend’s foundation. And the president before her was sentenced to 15 years for collecting bribes of up to $5 THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S NEW INTERNATIONAL This past February, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken launched one of the first foreign policy initiatives of the new Biden administration: the inaugural International Anticorruption Champions Awards. After receiving nominations from U.S. embassies around the world, the State Department honored a dozen individuals who made significant contributions to combatting corruption in their WHEN ANTICORRUPTION BEGETS CORRUPTION: A HISTORY LESSON Most readers of this blog are likely to support rigorous anticorruption laws. But a modicum of caution is necessary: If poorly designed, even anticorruption laws adopted with the best of intentions can be weaponized by bad-faith actors. This is not only a modern problem. Indeed, a troubling illustration of how overly ambitious anticorruption laws can THE “BIG GOVERNMENT CAUSES CORRUPTION” ZOMBIE SHAMBLES ON The “Big Government Causes Corruption” Zombie Shambles On. I don’t make a practice of responding to opinion columns in mainstream newspapers, especially when they’re not specifically or primarily about corruption. But the opening of Bret Stephens’ piece in yesterday’s New York Times caught my eye, mainly because the columnused
KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be corrupt than judges. ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF INDIA’S CORONAVIRUS CRISIS India’s unfathomable Covid tragedy has left the country gasping for breath, and no oxygen can be found. Hospitals are overrun, and are often unable to help even those lucky enough to be admitted. Desperate relatives are turning to social media and the black market for help, as beleaguered crematoriums shift from unprecedented 24/7 hours to the horrors of mass cremation to keep up with JOHNSTON AND FRITZEN: THE CONUNDRUM OF CORRUPTION Michael Johnston had done it again. A -- if not the -- dean of corruption studies has a new book out. This one a collaboration with a real dean, Scott Fritzen, professor at the University of Oklahoma and dean of its College of International Studies. The two’s TheConundrum of
SOUTH KOREA’S NEW CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION OFFICE NEEDS When South Korean President Moon Jae-in took office, it was clear that fighting corruption was going to be high on his agenda. After all, his predecessor Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years for pressuring conglomerates such as Samsung and Lotte to give millions of dollars to her friend’s foundation. And the president before her was sentenced to 15 years for collecting bribes of up to $5 PERU’S MISGUIDED PROPOSAL FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FOR Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officers IN MEXICO, JUSTICE WILL REMAIN A FAMILY MATTER Judicial corruption in Mexico is a pervasive problem. And while high-level scandals tend to grab the headlines (see, for example, here, here, and here), much of the corruption is more pedestrian. While the causes of Mexico’s judicial corruption problem are various and complex, one persistent contributing factor is the endemic nepotism throughout the judiciary. LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be corrupt than judges. ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount CORRUPTION AT THE HEART OF INDIA’S CORONAVIRUS CRISIS India’s unfathomable Covid tragedy has left the country gasping for breath, and no oxygen can be found. Hospitals are overrun, and are often unable to help even those lucky enough to be admitted. Desperate relatives are turning to social media and the black market for help, as beleaguered crematoriums shift from unprecedented 24/7 hours to the horrors of mass cremation to keep up with JOHNSTON AND FRITZEN: THE CONUNDRUM OF CORRUPTION Michael Johnston had done it again. A -- if not the -- dean of corruption studies has a new book out. This one a collaboration with a real dean, Scott Fritzen, professor at the University of Oklahoma and dean of its College of International Studies. The two’s TheConundrum of
SOUTH KOREA’S NEW CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION OFFICE NEEDS When South Korean President Moon Jae-in took office, it was clear that fighting corruption was going to be high on his agenda. After all, his predecessor Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years for pressuring conglomerates such as Samsung and Lotte to give millions of dollars to her friend’s foundation. And the president before her was sentenced to 15 years for collecting bribes of up to $5 PERU’S MISGUIDED PROPOSAL FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FOR Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officers IN MEXICO, JUSTICE WILL REMAIN A FAMILY MATTER Judicial corruption in Mexico is a pervasive problem. And while high-level scandals tend to grab the headlines (see, for example, here, here, and here), much of the corruption is more pedestrian. While the causes of Mexico’s judicial corruption problem are various and complex, one persistent contributing factor is the endemic nepotism throughout the judiciary. LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO).Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE 1 day ago · GAB is pleased to welcome back Sofie Arjon Schütte, Senior Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, to contribute today’s guest post:. Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its acronym KPK, was established during Indonesia’s reformation period in the early 2000s, and quickly became one of the world’s most powerful and independent anticorruption commissions. NEW PODCAST EPISODE, FEATURING ALICE MATTONI 21 hours ago · A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In this week's episode, my collaborators Nils Köbis and Jonathan Kleinpass interview Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Professor Mattoni is an expert both in anticorruption and in social movements more broadly, REFORMING SOUTH KOREA’S NEW ANTICORRUPTION AGENCY: HOW TO 1 day ago · Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO). Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to prosecute members of JOHNSTON AND FRITZEN: THE CONUNDRUM OF CORRUPTION Michael Johnston had done it again. A -- if not the -- dean of corruption studies has a new book out. This one a collaboration with a real dean, Scott Fritzen, professor at the University of Oklahoma and dean of its College of International Studies. The two’s TheConundrum of
THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT’S NEW INTERNATIONAL This past February, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken launched one of the first foreign policy initiatives of the new Biden administration: the inaugural International Anticorruption Champions Awards. After receiving nominations from U.S. embassies around the world, the State Department honored a dozen individuals who made significant contributions to combatting corruption in their WHY DO SO FEW CORRUPTION VICTIMS SEEK COMPENSATION? The United Nations Convention Against Corruption requires state parties to open their courts to those damaged by corruption. Under article 35, states that have ratified UNCAC must provide victims of corruption a right to “initiate legal proceedings against those responsible for that damage to obtain compensation.” According to the United Nations Office on Drugs GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – a small, arid swath of land that its Western-educated monarch jokes is “between Iraq and a hard place” – teems with corruption.Most Jordanians often have no choice but to pay bribes for public services. Members of the government and the royal family regularly siphon money from public contracts and foreign aid projects.PEOPLE POWER PARTY
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21 hours ago · A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In this week’s episode, my collaborators Nils Köbis and Jonathan Kleinpass interview Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.Professor Mattoni is an expert both in anticorruption and in social movements more broadly, and the interview GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be corrupt than judges. ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FOR Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officers IN MEXICO, JUSTICE WILL REMAIN A FAMILY MATTER Judicial corruption in Mexico is a pervasive problem. And while high-level scandals tend to grab the headlines (see, for example, here, here, and here), much of the corruption is more pedestrian. While the causes of Mexico’s judicial corruption problem are various and complex, one persistent contributing factor is the endemic nepotism throughout the judiciary. WHY WON’T SWEDEN PUNISH SWEDES FOR BRIBING FOREIGN Last week a Swedish appellate court issued an opinion confirming the anticorruption community’s worst fear. The decision stems from a 2017 U.S. prosecution of Swedish telecommunications giant Telia for bribing the Uzbekistan president’s daughter. The evidence showed Telia’s then CEO and two other executives countenanced the bribery, and Swedish prosecutors KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7750 The United States, however, is a notable exception, with its Presidential Proclamation 7750, which authorizes the US Secretary of State to issue entry bans against corrupt foreign officials (subject to a caveat that such determinations must be informed by US national interests), and the Magnitsky Act of 2012, enacted by the US Congressin
IT’S OFFICIAL: HIRING A FOREIGN OFFICIAL’S RELATIVE IN The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits the entities it covers from corruptly offering “anything of value” to a foreign official for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business. In most cases, the “thing of value” offered is a traditional bribe—money, expensive gifts, lavish vacations, etc. But in some cases, firms do “favors” for BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTRY COMING TO THE UNITED STATES This may be the year the United States finally requires disclosure of who owns American corporations. By a 43-16 vote, the House Financial Services Committee recommended on June 11 that the full House of Representatives approve legislation creating a beneficial ownership registry accessible to federal and state law enforcement agencies and presumably to foreign law GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be corrupt than judges. ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FOR Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officers IN MEXICO, JUSTICE WILL REMAIN A FAMILY MATTER Judicial corruption in Mexico is a pervasive problem. And while high-level scandals tend to grab the headlines (see, for example, here, here, and here), much of the corruption is more pedestrian. While the causes of Mexico’s judicial corruption problem are various and complex, one persistent contributing factor is the endemic nepotism throughout the judiciary. WHY WON’T SWEDEN PUNISH SWEDES FOR BRIBING FOREIGN Last week a Swedish appellate court issued an opinion confirming the anticorruption community’s worst fear. The decision stems from a 2017 U.S. prosecution of Swedish telecommunications giant Telia for bribing the Uzbekistan president’s daughter. The evidence showed Telia’s then CEO and two other executives countenanced the bribery, and Swedish prosecutors KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7750 The United States, however, is a notable exception, with its Presidential Proclamation 7750, which authorizes the US Secretary of State to issue entry bans against corrupt foreign officials (subject to a caveat that such determinations must be informed by US national interests), and the Magnitsky Act of 2012, enacted by the US Congressin
IT’S OFFICIAL: HIRING A FOREIGN OFFICIAL’S RELATIVE IN The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits the entities it covers from corruptly offering “anything of value” to a foreign official for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business. In most cases, the “thing of value” offered is a traditional bribe—money, expensive gifts, lavish vacations, etc. But in some cases, firms do “favors” for BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTRY COMING TO THE UNITED STATES This may be the year the United States finally requires disclosure of who owns American corporations. By a 43-16 vote, the House Financial Services Committee recommended on June 11 that the full House of Representatives approve legislation creating a beneficial ownership registry accessible to federal and state law enforcement agencies and presumably to foreign law GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO).Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE 18 hours ago · GAB is pleased to welcome back Sofie Arjon Schütte, Senior Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, to contribute today’s guest post:. Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its acronym KPK, was established during Indonesia’s reformation period in the early 2000s, and quickly became one of the world’s most powerful and independentanticorruption
NEW PODCAST EPISODE, FEATURING ALICE MATTONI 10 hours ago · A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In this week's episode, my collaborators Nils Köbis and Jonathan Kleinpass interview Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. Professor Mattoni is an expert both in anticorruption and in social movements more broadly,SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
10 hours ago · A new episode of KickBack: The Global Anticorruption Podcast is now available. In this week’s episode, my collaborators Nils Köbis and Jonathan Kleinpass interview Alice Mattoni, Associate Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna.Professor Mattoni is an expert both in anticorruption and in social movements more broadly, and the interview GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – a small, arid swath of land that its Western-educated monarch jokes is “between Iraq and a hard place” – teems with corruption.Most Jordanians often have no choice but to pay bribes for public services. Members of the government and the royal family regularly siphon money from public contracts and foreign aid projects. STREAMING NOW: COMPENSATING CORRUPTION VICTIMS Click here to join a discussion on compensating victims of corruption starting now (10:00 am U.S. East Coast time). One of the several events held as part of the UN General Assembly’s Special Session on Corruption, it is sponsored by Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC). the Asset Recovery Subcommittee of the InternationalBar Association,
REFORMING SOUTH KOREA’S NEW ANTICORRUPTION AGENCY: HOW TO 1 day ago · Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO). Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to prosecute members of FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FOR Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officersPEOPLE POWER PARTY
1 day ago · Posts about People Power Party written by Vincent Wu. Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO).Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but PERU’S MISGUIDED PROPOSAL FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONANTI CORRUPTION LAWTHE AMERICAN ANTICORRUPTION ACT
In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be corrupt than judges. ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FORARTICLES ON CORRUPTION IN NIGERIACORRUPTION IN NIGERIA PDFEFFECTS OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIAEXAMPLES OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIAHISTORY OF CORRUPTION IN NIGERIANIGERIA CORRUPTION RATING Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officers IN MEXICO, JUSTICE WILL REMAIN A FAMILY MATTER Judicial corruption in Mexico is a pervasive problem. And while high-level scandals tend to grab the headlines (see, for example, here, here, and here), much of the corruption is more pedestrian. While the causes of Mexico’s judicial corruption problem are various and complex, one persistent contributing factor is the endemic nepotism throughout the judiciary. WHY WON’T SWEDEN PUNISH SWEDES FOR BRIBING FOREIGN Last week a Swedish appellate court issued an opinion confirming the anticorruption community’s worst fear. The decision stems from a 2017 U.S. prosecution of Swedish telecommunications giant Telia for bribing the Uzbekistan president’s daughter. The evidence showed Telia’s then CEO and two other executives countenanced the bribery, and Swedish prosecutors KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7750 The United States, however, is a notable exception, with its Presidential Proclamation 7750, which authorizes the US Secretary of State to issue entry bans against corrupt foreign officials (subject to a caveat that such determinations must be informed by US national interests), and the Magnitsky Act of 2012, enacted by the US Congressin
IT’S OFFICIAL: HIRING A FOREIGN OFFICIAL’S RELATIVE IN The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits the entities it covers from corruptly offering “anything of value” to a foreign official for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business. In most cases, the “thing of value” offered is a traditional bribe—money, expensive gifts, lavish vacations, etc. But in some cases, firms do “favors” for BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTRY COMING TO THE UNITED STATESCAYMAN ISLANDS BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTRY This may be the year the United States finally requires disclosure of who owns American corporations. By a 43-16 vote, the House Financial Services Committee recommended on June 11 that the full House of Representatives approve legislation creating a beneficial ownership registry accessible to federal and state law enforcement agencies and presumably to foreign law GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCEABOUTCONTACTRESOURCESBLOGSTRACKING CORRUPTION AND CONFLICTS IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONANTI CORRUPTION LAWTHE AMERICAN ANTICORRUPTION ACT
In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to be corrupt than judges. ML FOR AML: IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE UP TO THE TASK OF Fighting corruption—especially grand corruption—requires effective anti-money laundering (AML) systems capable of efficiently and correctly flagging suspicious transactions. The financial institutions responsible for identifying and reporting suspicious transactions employ automated systems that identify transactions that involve certain red flags—characteristics like transaction amount LET’S TALK ABOUT MONACO Let’s Talk About Monaco. Monaco, the sovereign city-state on France’s Mediterranean coast, is many things. It is the second smallest country in the world, following only Vatican City. It boasts the highest GDP per capita of any country. It is a constitutional IN MEXICO, JUSTICE WILL REMAIN A FAMILY MATTER Judicial corruption in Mexico is a pervasive problem. And while high-level scandals tend to grab the headlines (see, for example, here, here, and here), much of the corruption is more pedestrian. While the causes of Mexico’s judicial corruption problem are various and complex, one persistent contributing factor is the endemic nepotism throughout the judiciary. THE ROLE OF CORRUPTION IN THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR The Role of Corruption in the Syrian Civil War. Posted on February 6, 2017 by Nick Gersh. Many forces spurred on the development of the Syrian Civil War, a conflict that has likely led to the deaths of over half a million people, as well as the displacement of ten million more. While fighting was sparked by protests within Syria, areflection
KLITGAARD’S MISLEADING “CORRUPTION FORMULA” Klitgaard, who is one of the giants of academic anticorruption research over the last half-century, once pithily (and influentially) summed up his perspective on the causes of corruption in a “corruption formula”: C = M + D – A, or (to put this back into words): “Corruption equals monopoly plus discretion minus accountability.” (The PRESIDENTIAL PROCLAMATION 7750 The United States, however, is a notable exception, with its Presidential Proclamation 7750, which authorizes the US Secretary of State to issue entry bans against corrupt foreign officials (subject to a caveat that such determinations must be informed by US national interests), and the Magnitsky Act of 2012, enacted by the US Congressin
IN MEMORIAM: DIMITRI VLASSIS (1959 The international fight against corruption lost one of its most steadfast and determined warriors with the passing in early April of Dimitri Vlassis, Chief of the Corruption and Economic Crime Branch of UNODC’s Division of Treaty Affairs. Many in governments, international organizations, and civil society who, over the last two decades, enlisted in the fight IT’S OFFICIAL: HIRING A FOREIGN OFFICIAL’S RELATIVE IN The U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) prohibits the entities it covers from corruptly offering “anything of value” to a foreign official for the purposes of obtaining or retaining business. In most cases, the “thing of value” offered is a traditional bribe—money, expensive gifts, lavish vacations, etc. But in some cases, firms do “favors” for BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTRY COMING TO THE UNITED STATESCAYMAN ISLANDS BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP REGISTRY This may be the year the United States finally requires disclosure of who owns American corporations. By a 43-16 vote, the House Financial Services Committee recommended on June 11 that the full House of Representatives approve legislation creating a beneficial ownership registry accessible to federal and state law enforcement agencies and presumably to foreign law GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO).Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE 9 hours ago · GAB is pleased to welcome back Sofie Arjon Schütte, Senior Advisor at the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, to contribute today’s guest post:. Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission, known by its acronym KPK, was established during Indonesia’s reformation period in the early 2000s, and quickly became one of the world’s most powerful and independentanticorruption
IMPROVING ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING MODELS WITH SYNTHETIC DATA As readers of this blog are well aware, an effective anti-money laundering (AML) regime is crucial for fighting grand corruption, as well as other organized criminal activity. A key part of the AML system is the requirement that banks and other financial institutions identify suspicious transactions and file so-called suspicious activity reports (SARs) with the REFORMING SOUTH KOREA’S NEW ANTICORRUPTION AGENCY: HOW TO 1 day ago · Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO). Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but nonetheless important power to prosecute members of GAB | THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION BLOG | LAW, SOCIAL SCIENCE Law, Social Science, and Policy. The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan – a small, arid swath of land that its Western-educated monarch jokes is “between Iraq and a hard place” – teems with corruption.Most Jordanians often have no choice but to pay bribes for public services. Members of the government and the royal family regularly siphon money from public contracts and foreign aid projects. SOUTH KOREA’S NEW CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION OFFICE NEEDS When South Korean President Moon Jae-in took office, it was clear that fighting corruption was going to be high on his agenda. After all, his predecessor Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years for pressuring conglomerates such as Samsung and Lotte to give millions of dollars to her friend’s foundation. And the president before her was sentenced to 15 years for collecting bribes of up to $5PEOPLE POWER PARTY
1 day ago · Posts about People Power Party written by Vincent Wu. Back in December 2019, South Korean President Moon Jae-in achieved what seemed like a major victory in his anticorruption platform when the National Assembly established a new agency, the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO).Armed with broad investigatory authority, as well as a more limited but FIGHTING POLICE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA: AN AGENDA FOR Nigeria has a serious problem with police corruption, at all levels. At the top, senior police officials embezzle staggering sums of public funds. To take just one example, in 2012, the former Inspector General of Police, Sunday Ehindero, faced trial for embezzling 16 million Naira (approximately US$44,422). Meanwhile, at the lower levels, rank-and-file police officers PERU’S MISGUIDED PROPOSAL FOR COUNTERING CORRUPTION IN In Peru, as in far too many countries, the judicial system is corrupt and unreliable. For this reason, companies often find arbitration is an attractive alternative for resolving commercial disputes—not just because arbitration can be cheaper and faster than judicial dispute resolution in these cases, but because the arbitrators are (supposedly) less likely to beSYNTHETIC DATA
Posts about synthetic data written by Sam Magaram. As readers of this blog are well aware, an effective anti-money laundering (AML) regime is crucial for fighting grand corruption, as well as other organizedcriminal activity.
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GUEST POST: HOW FRANCE IS MODERNIZING ITS CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND STREAMLINING ITS RESOLUTION OF CORPORATE CRIME CASES Posted on May 27, 2020 by Matthew Stephenson1
_GAB is pleased to welcome back __Frederick Davis_ _, a lawyer in the Paris and New York offices of Debevoise & Plimpton and a Lecturer at Columbia Law School, who contributes the following guest post:_ For approximately two decades, at least since 2000, France—a signatory to the 1997 OECD Anti-Bribery Convention— has
had laws on the books that emulate the U.S. Foreign CorruptionPractices Act
(FCPA) by criminalizing bribes to foreign public officials. For most of that time, these laws were not effectively enforced: During the first 15 years after France prohibited foreign bribery, not a single corporation was convicted in France. The reasons for this—previously discussed on this blog by meand others
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the low maximum penalties applicable to corporations, imprecision in French laws relating to corporate criminal responsibility, lengthy investigations (often lasting over a decade) run by investigating magistrates, and the virtual absence of any possibility of a negotiated outcome. In the absence of French enforcement of its laws against foreign bribery, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) took it upon itself to investigate and prosecute a number of French corporations for FCPA and other violations. These enforcement actions, which were
typically resolved by guilty pleas or deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs), netted aggregate fines and other penalties of over $2 billion, not a penny of which was paid to France. This situation provoked widespread discussion and debate in France, and eventually led to a number of changes in its criminal procedures. Among the most important were the creation, in 2013, of a National Financial Prosecutor’s office (PNF) with nationwide authority to prosecute a variety of financial crimes, and the adoption, in December 2016, of the so-called _Loi Sapin II_, which overhauled many of the criminal laws relating to corporate and financial crime, increasing corporate penalties, adopting a new settlement procedure called the _Convention Judiciaire d’Intérêt Public_ (CJIP) closely modeled on the US DPA, and creating a French Anticorruption Agency (AFA) to supervise newly-mandatory corporate compliance programs and issue guidelines for corporate behavior. These reforms have already produced some impressive results, including major settlements (sometimes in cooperation with other countries like the US and UK) with large French and multinational companies (see, for example, here,
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An interview
published this past April with Jean-François Bohnert, who has served since October 2019 as the National Financial Prosecutor, sheds some light on how France’s recent legal and institutional reforms are transforming its enforcement of its laws against foreign bribery and other complex corporate crime. In that interview, M. Bohnert understandably focused on his office’s successes; he was particularly proud of the number of cases his office had handled with a relatively small staff. But to my mind, by far the most interesting and important thing that came out of this interview was the fact that, of the 592 cases handled by the PNF in 2019, 81% were so-called “preliminary investigations” managed exclusively by the PNF, while only 19% were led by investigating magistrates. To someone unfamiliar with the French legal system, the significance of this statistic may not be readily apparent, but in fact it suggests an important change in the French approach to corporate misbehavior. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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ANTICORRUPTION BIBLIOGRAPHY–MAY 2020 UPDATE Posted on May 26, 2020 by Matthew StephensonReply
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THE BRIBERY TRIAL OF SITTING ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU POSES UNPRECEDENTED CHALLENGES Posted on May 25, 2020by Haggai Porat
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The criminal trial of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, on multiplecorruption charges
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opened yesterday, only ten days after the formation of a new government, and after years of police investigations, indictment procedures, and three rounds of early general elections. The trial is an unprecedented event in Israel, and one of the few examples anywhere in the world where a sitting head of government has stood trial on criminal charges in his own country. This situation poses unique challenges. On the one hand, the court must ensure that Netanyahu’s rights, as a criminal defendant, are respected. That said, though, some adjustments will have to be made to secure both the fairness of the trial and the integrity of Israeli executive and judicial branches, given that as the trial unfolds, Netanyahu will continue to serve as Prime Minister. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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ADAPTING ANTICORRUPTION ENFORCEMENT TO AN AGE OF POPULISMAND POLARIZATION
Posted on May 22, 2020by Haggai Porat
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Shortly after the U.S. Senate acquitted President Clinton in 1999, he apologized for triggering the impeachment process. President Trump, in contrast, declared that his acquittal called for “a day ofcelebration
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and immediately started firing White House employees who had testified before the House of Representatives. In 2008, then-Israeli Prime Minister Olmert resigned shortly after the police recommended that he should be indicted on corruption charges. In contrast, after Prime Minister Netanyahu was indicted on multiple bribery charges, he infamously said that Israeli citizens should “investigate the investigators,”
and even with the trial approaching, Netanyahu shows no signs of considering resignation. Instead, he is currently fiercely promoting legislation to amend several of the Israeli Constitutional Basic Laws in ways that will allow him to remain in office for years to come. These troubling examples illustrate how the resurgence of populism, coupled with increasing polarization, are making it easier for corrupt politicians to evade accountability, even in countries with functional legal and judicial systems. Deep political divisions and strong partisan loyalty are not new, but in the past, it seems there was a degree of overlapping consensus on minimum standards of integrity and propriety, and enough citizens were willing to enforce these standards on a non-partisan basis that leaders would be restrained by political checks—enforced through things like elections and internal party discipline—that could complement judicial processes. Moreover, leaders like Trump and Netanyahu have acted aggressively to undermine the institutions of justice in order to protect themselves. Both leaders have cavalierly attacked the professionalism and integrity of their country’s law enforcement agencies by suggesting that investigations targeting the leader or his associates are politically motivated “witch hunts.” And both have taken more concrete action to undermine the ordinary operation of the machinery of justice. In the U.S., after his Senate trial acquittal, President Trump intervened to help allies who had been found guilty in cases related to investigations of impropriety by Trump’s 2016 campaign. For example, Trump’s Attorney General ordered the Department of Justice to seek a more lenient sentence for Trump’s former consultant Roger Stone, and Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of several others in a short and unorthodox process. Netanyahu has been even more aggressive in trying to weaken legal institutions in order to protect himself. After being indicted, Netanyahu fired the Minister of Justice and appointed in her place a low-ranking member of his party with no prior ministerial experience. The new Minister’s first action was to appoint a new Solicitor General—the immediate superior of the prosecution team in Netanyahu’s case–through an irregular process and against the recommendation of the non-partisan Attorney General. (Due to the political deadlock, the Minister is part of a caretaker government and could therefore appoint an interim Solicitor General without the approval of the public committee that the law would otherwise require.) On the eve of Israel’s third round of elections, the new Solicitor General decided—against the opinion of the Attorney General and many others—to launch a police investigation into a firm in which Netanyahu’s chief rival Benny Gantz served as a director (obscuring the fact that Gantz himself is not a suspect). More recently, the Minister of Justice gave the unprecedented order to freeze all non-urgent judicial procedures due to the Covid-19 outbreak—a move that indefinitely postpones Netanyahu’s trial. While the Covid-19 outbreak has disrupted or delayed judicial proceedings in many countries, there was no expert opinion supporting such drastic measures in Israel, especially given that Israel has more per capita testing and ventilators capacity than nearly any country on earth. Even now, when newly detected cases are close to zero, a new date for the trial has yet to be set. Moreover, to avoid a fourth round of elections, given the continued deadlock, Netanyahu is now fiercely and unprecedently promoting legislative amendments to Israel’s Constitutional Basic Laws that would allow him to hold onto office for years to come. When professional, and traditionally non-partisan, law enforcement agencies find themselves under attack by corrupt populists, these agencies often do not respond, presumably due to the belief that the only way to maintain integrity, legitimacy, and professionalism in the face of such attacks is to refrain from commenting on unfounded claims meant to disparage state attorneys and police investigators. There is much to be said for that approach, but at the same time, the institutions of justice can and should do more to counter the attempts of corrupt populists to undermine those institutions in order toremain in power.
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GUEST POST: ANONYMOUS COMPANIES ARE UNDERMINING MEXICO’SPUBLIC HEALTH
Posted on May 21, 2020 by Matthew StephensonReply
_Today’s guest post is by Miguel Ángel Gómez Jácome,
the Communications Coordinator at the Mexican civil society organization Impunidad Cero (ZeroImpunity)._
The COVID-19 pandemic has already affected millions of people. (As of the time this piece was initially drafted, around 2 million people had been infected; the exponential spread of the virus means that by the time this piece is published, that number is likely to be much higher.) And while Mexico has not yet been as severely impacted as other countries, official statistics (which likely understate the true prevalence) already report thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths. To confront this problem, Mexico, like other countries, will need to marshal its resources effectively. Unfortunately, though, Mexico’s ability to manage the COVID-19 epidemic is threatened by Mexico’s epidemic of embezzlement in the health sector, much of it facilitated by anonymous shell companies. This widespread corruption drains away vital public resources needed to combat public health emergencies like the COVID-19pandemic.
In March 2020, two civil society organizations (Justicia Justa (Just Justice) and Impunidad Cero (Zero Impunity)), documented the extent of the problem in a research report entitled _Fake Invoices: The Health Sector Epidemic_.
The research found that between 2014 and 2019, 837 shell companies issued 22,933 fake invoices to 90 health institutions across the country (in 30 of Mexico’s 32 states, as well as the federal government), ultimately embezzling a total of over 4 billion pesos (roughly $176 million US dollars) from the health sector—an amount that could have paid for around 80,000 hospital bedsor between 3,400
and 6,900 ventilators.
(To put this in context, Mexico currently has 5,000 ventilators in the whole country, and the government is looking to acquire 5,000 more.) And the problem is only getting bigger: According to Mexico’s Tax Administration authority (the SAT), the number of anonymous shell companies in the country has increased from 111 in 2014 to over 9,000 in 2020. To crack down on the abuse of shell companies to embezzle public funds from the health sector (as well as other sectors), the authors of the _Fake Invoices_ report propose three responses: Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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WHERE THE REAL BLAME FOR LETTING BRIDGEGATE DEFENDANTS OFF LIES:PART I
Posted on May 20, 2020by Richard Messick
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The Supreme Court continues to bear the blame for two political operatives getting off scot free for an admitted blatant abuse of power: creating nightmarish traffic jams for residents of a small New Jersey town because its mayor had not endorsed their boss’ reelection as governor. Though the record showed the stunt endangered the lives of some and inconvenienced thousands and their lawyer admitted it was an abuse their power as state officials to cause the jams, the Court acquitted them on all charges. Its decision in the _Bridgegate_ case, so named because the traffic jams were created by blocking two lanes of the bridge the residents used to commute to New York City, is indeed the immediate reason defendantsescaped sanction.
But that ruling was the inevitable consequence of earlier decisions by the other branches of government. For decades Congress has ignored the Court’s warning that the hodgepodge of federal laws used to prosecute state and local officials for corruption is Constitutionally infirm. And for decades, and despite some spectacular earlier reversals by the Court, the Executive branch has continued to rely on these statutes to prosecute state and local corruption. Those genuinely interested in fighting corruption need to stop denouncing the Court and focus their energies instead on these two branches of government. Below is what they should demand of the Executive. Part II of this post will explain what they should demand of Congress. Continue reading →SHARE THIS:
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NEW PODCAST, FEATURING SARAH STEINGRÜBER Posted on May 19, 2020 by Matthew StephensonReply
A new episode of KICKBACK: THE GLOBAL ANTICORRUPTION PODCAST is now available. In this week’s episode, I interview Sarah Steingrüber, an independent
consultant on corruption and public health issues. Among her other activities in this area, she currently serves as the global health lead for the CurbingCorruption web platform, and was the co-author of the U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre’s report on _Corruption in the Time of COVID-19: A Double-Threat for Low Income Countries._ Much of
our conversation naturally focuses on how corruption and related issues may intersect with the coronavirus pandemic and its response, in particular (1) misappropriation of relief spending, and (2) how some corrupt leaders may use the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext to eliminate checks and oversight. A central tension we discuss is how the urgency of emergency situations affects the sorts of measures that are appropriate, and draws on lessons from prior health crises such as the Ebola outbreak in West African in 2013-2016. We then discuss other more general issues related to corruption and health, such as how the monetization and privatization of health may contribute to undue private influence on decision-making processes in the health sector. You can find this episode here . You can also find both this episode and an archive of prior episodes at the following locations: * The Interdisciplinary Corruption Research Network (ICRN) website* iTunes
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