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BAE still needs to come out clean about its past

26 February 2013 in Accountability, Defence and Security, Private sector

Magdalena Reinberg works with Transparency Austria in Vienna, Tiffany Clarke with Transparency’s International Defence & Security Programme in London and Christian Humborg with Transparency Germany in Berlin. They write about recent corruption allegations against British weapons manufacturer BAE Systems. As mentioned in TI-UK’s blog from 5 February 2013, the revelations in the Sunday Times show that it […]

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Bribery in Hungary: A Close Encounter of the Third Kind

21 September 2012 in Accountability, Anti-corruption Conventions, Defence and Security, Europe and Central Asia, Private sector

‘All countries share a responsibility to combat bribery’, according to the OECD anti-bribery convention. But a bribery case in Hungary that has seen action in several other countries, but not Hungary itself, is testing that principle. There is no obstacle stopping British or Swedish law enforcers who investigated the sale of fighter jets to Hungary […]

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Foreign bribes in the Middle East & North Africa – Not just a regional problem

5 September 2012 in Africa and Middle East, Asset recovery, Politics and government, Private sector

Recovery of stolen assets is a prime concern for Arab governments at the moment but what role did multinationals play in bribing former corrupt officials? A six month joint investigation published this week in British papers revealed that the country’s authorities have not been proactive in seizing key assets by the former Egyptian president Hosni […]

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