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What’s next for Ukraine?

16 December 2016 in Asset recovery, Civil society, Europe and Central Asia

Ukraine said it planned to confiscate $290 million of assets believed to be stolen through corruption in 2016. So far they’ve recovered and returned to state budget just $5,683. While that’s a tiny improvement from $3,813 recovered last year, it shows the struggling country has a long way to go before it can successfully recover […]

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Anti-corruption and happiness go hand in hand

20 September 2016 in Asset recovery, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Europe and Central Asia

There is a clear link between the level of corruption in a country and people’s attitude to corruption. If you shrug your shoulders and accept there’s little to be done, corruption remains high and you are unhappy. If corruption makes you angry and you do something constructive about it, like pass laws and prosecute the […]

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