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Transparency

News, comment and features on transparency in the developing world, including fighting corruption and investigating governments and businesses  

January 2024

  • Transparency International webpage

    Australia maintains corruption ranking as government urged to do more on whistleblowers

  • A large quantity of unused PPE was found last year dumped in the New Forest near Southampton.

    UK perceived as more corrupt, falling to its lowest score on global index

August 2023

  • Kwasi Kwarteng sits in front of a backdrop with the names of thinktanks including the IEA and TaxPayers' alliance

    UK thinktanks urged to be transparent about funding as $1m US donations revealed

    Campaigners urge more openness after more than $1m handed to influential British thinktanks by donors in US

January 2023

  • First Plenary Session At The State Duma of 2023

    Russian MPs vote to hide tax returns from public view

    State Duma approves law to keep members’ income tax and assets private in blow to transparency

October 2022

  • Kwasi Kwarteng.

    Kwasi Kwarteng’s secret meetings with Saudi oil firms revealed

    Exclusive: Meetings while in Saudi Arabia undisclosed due to ‘administrative oversight’, says business department

August 2022

  • Lisa Osofsky, director of the Serious Fraud Office

    Anger as Serious Fraud Office head says she’s proud of ‘revolving door’ between regulator and law firms

    Fears grow that movement of senior figures into private sector sees some use inside knowledge to help companies being investigated

June 2022

  • First national cabinet meeting with Anthony Albanese

    Anthony Albanese backflips on national cabinet secrecy and refuses to say why

    PM opts to continue to prevent release of documents related to meetings with state leaders despite his previous criticism of the practice

January 2022

  • Protesters with and efigy of President Rodrigo Duterte

    Governments around the world used Covid to erode human rights – report

    Transparency International ranking reveals decade of standstill on tackling corruption, with many countries reaching historic lows in 2021

December 2021

  • Oliver Bullough

    Britain can’t complain about global corruption – it’s helping to fund it

    Oliver Bullough
    While Liz Truss warns that democracy is under attack, a new report shows the extent of the UK’s ‘kleptocracy problem’, says Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland

July 2021

  • Tom Scholar

    Pin resets wipe all data from over 100 Treasury mobile phones

    Permanent secretary Tom Scholar among those affected after entering incorrect passwords repeatedly

June 2021

  • Independent Member for Indi Helen Haine

    Coalition urged to keep election promise to set up national integrity commission

  • Downing Street sign

    UK government admits ministers can use self-deleting messages

May 2021

  • Tokeh beach near Freetown

    Seascape: the state of our oceans
    ‘Catastrophic’: Sierra Leone sells rainforest for Chinese harbour

    Controversial deal with China would be disastrous for fishing and protected rainforest, say opponents

June 2020

  • Logo of Transparency International.

    Anti-corruption watchdog hit by legal row over staff ‘bullying’

    Transparency International receives millions from UK government and ex-boss claims she was pushed out of job

April 2020

  • Reebok trainers

    H&M tops 2020 fashion transparency index as 10 brands score zero

    C&A, Adidas/Reebok, Esprit and M&S round out top five as average scores increase year on year, but Max Mara, Pepe Jeans and Tom Ford fall flat

March 2020

  • a tropical beach in Bermuda

    EU states 'dragging their feet' over financial transparency, report finds

    Global Witness says only six states including UK meet demands on measures to fight money-laundering

October 2019

  • Lawyer Bernard Collaery addresses the media outside the Supreme Court in Canberra

    Full Story
    The spy scandal that laid bare Australia's record on whistleblowers

    Transparency reporter Christopher Knaus explains to Gabrielle Jackson how whistleblowers become targets under Australian law.

August 2019

  • Microphone cables dangle over a logo of Transparency International (TI) during a press conference in Berlin on September 23, 2008, upon the release of TI’s Corruption Perceptions Index 2008. Stopping bent practices such as cronyism and embezzlement can save lives in poor countries, her report said, as Somalia, Iraq and Myanmar again came bottom in its global corruption rankings. “In the poorest countries, corruption levels can mean the difference between life and death, when money for hospitals or clean water is in play,” Transparency International (TI) said.

    Transparency International staff complain of bullying and harassment

    Corruption watchdog accused of promoting ‘toxic’ workplace culture that silenced critical voices

May 2019

  • Andrew Mitchell and Justine Greening

    Andrew Mitchell and Justine Greening back calls for foreign loan transparency

    Former international development secretaries among 50 British MPs urging introduction of tighter regulations on disclosure

February 2019

  • Kelly O’Dwyer

    Coalition abandons plan for register to help beat tax avoidance

    Despite explicit promises, Treasury says there was never any commitment to establish beneficial ownership register
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