When You Have Corrupt Friends Abroad: The Impact of Strategic Corruption on Sudan’s Democratic Collapse
A new peer-reviewed journal article looks into how corruption undermines democracies, with a specific focus on a context of weak governance.
Collective Action Awards 2025: vote now!
Public voting has opened for this year’s prestigious Collective Action Awards.
Launched in 2022, the Collective Action Awards celebrate inspiring and outstanding multi-stakeholder initiatives to raise standards of business integrity in a particular context. As in previous years, there are two award categories: “Outstanding Achievement in Collective Action” and “Collective Action Inspirational Newcomer”.
Tackling crime convergence: The Amazon challenge
Keeping Europe safe means keeping up with corruption and financial crime threats
Two recent EU publications underscore the central role of corruption and money laundering in enabling organised crime and threatening security – and how essential it is to invest more in efforts to investigate, seize and confiscate criminal assets.
Europol’s 2025 Serious and Organised Crime Threat Assessment (SOCTA) painted a sobering picture of how organised crime is “evolving at an unprecedented pace”, with corruption and money laundering as key enablers.
High-level Corruption: an Analysis of Schemes, Costs and of Policy Recommendations
Corruption affects communities worldwide. It undermines civil, political and economic rights, erodes trust in institutions and impedes economic progress. A new Policy Brief by the FALCON (Fight Against Large-scale Corruption and Organised Crime Networks) project unveils new insights in the fight against high-level corruption.
Quick Guide 40: Financial investigations in a cash economy
Despite the increasing use of digital payment methods, cash is still king in many economies – including criminal economies. It remains the most-used payment option across Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and accounted for over USD 7.6 trillion in consumer expenditures throughout 2022.
That’s a challenge when investigating financial crimes. How can you “follow the money” without records of bank transfers, debit or credit card payments, or digital wallet transactions?
Certificate of Advanced Studies: Countering Financial Crime Through Asset Recovery
This unique programme will give you a solid understanding of "following the money" and asset recovery as a tool to tackle financial crime.
Aid cuts make asset recovery even more crucial
State parties to the UN Convention Against Corruption are already obligated to identify, confiscate and return proceeds of corruption and money laundering that have entered their financial systems. As this often includes money stolen from states receiving development aid, maximising efforts to fulfil this obligation could offset some of the worst effects of recent aid cuts.
Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum 2025
Dissecting the environmental-financial crime nexus: delving into a case from the Canadian Financial Intelligence Unit
At the next Follow-the-Money Working Group meeting, Patrick Moreau from Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) will present a compelling case study highlighting the international scope of an illegal wildlife trade investigation and the critical role of financial intelligence in uncovering illicit activities.