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Transparency International warns of UK’s ‘woeful inadequacies’ as Qatar, UAE and Russia slide down list

The UK has fallen down Transparency International’s corruption perceptions index (CPI) after a year of high-profile government scandals.

As a corruption scandal rocks the European Parliament, lawmakers and campaign groups say a lack of asset declarations, little reporting on contacts with third countries and barely any sanctions created an environment where rule-breaking could go unpunished or undetected.

As the purported bribery scandal known as "Qatargate" rocks the European Parliament, FRANCE 24 speaks to prominent MEP Daniel Freund, who, until 2019, led Transparency International's work on the integrity of the EU institutions. He then took up his mandate as an EU parliamentarian for the Group of the Greens.…

Next ethics adviser, when appointed by Rishi Sunak, will probably face calls to open at least two complex cases

Equatorial Guineans go to the polls on Sunday as President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the world’s longest-serving president, looks for another mandate in a country considered one of the most repressive in the world.

MPs who received gifts later appeared to speak favourably about Qatar in parliamentary debates

Transparency International says 33 properties worth £700m may be linked to sanctioned Russians

The European Union should bar Russian diamond imports and blacklist diamond miner Alrosa and its head Sergei Ivanov, Transparency International told Reuters on Monday, as the 27-nation bloc prepares new sanctions over Russia's war in Ukraine.