Basel AML Index 2025 launch
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the launch of the 2025 Public Edition of the Basel AML Index, an independent ranking and risk assessment tool measuring money laundering and related financial crime risks worldwide.
Certificate of Advanced Studies: Mastering Today's Anti-Corruption Challenges
Corruption and financial crime undermine societies, from stalling economic growth to eroding public trust. Understanding their dynamics and how to fight them effectively is vital for professionals from any sector and corner of the world.
This certificate programme with the University of Basel is designed to boost the knowledge, skills and careers of professionals who care about countering corruption.
Illegal gold mining and illicit financial flows: from the Amazon basin to destination countries
Basel Institute newsletter - September 2025
The newsletter starts with a reflection by our Executive Director Betsy Andersen and covers highlights in late August and September 2025. It also features our latest news, blogs, other publications and current job vacancies.
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Global professionals begin new anti-corruption studies
The Basel Institute’s first international postgraduate programme in anti-corruption has begun. 12 students from 11 countries across Africa, Europe and North America are taking part in the six-month course, led by Basel Institute staff and resulting in a Certificate of Advanced Studies from the University of Basel.
The course, Mastering Today’s Anti-Corruption Challenges, equips mid-career professionals with the tools, skills and networks to address corruption and governance challenges in their work.
Policy Brief 15: Rethinking how Switzerland uses illicit profits from foreign bribery settlements
Only a handful of states have been actively pursuing the enforcement of foreign bribery. Switzerland is one of them and its efforts to crack down on this offence is commendable.
Between 2011 and 2024, Switzerland issued 14 final judicial orders at a federal level against Swiss-linked companies that engaged in foreign bribery. In these proceedings, the companies were ordered to hand over approximately CHF 730 million (combined) in illicit profits that they had obtained through their foreign bribery schemes, and an additional CHF 30 million in fines.
Working Paper 59: Using corrupt proceeds to fight corruption: Rethinking how Switzerland uses illicit profits from foreign bribery
Only a handful of states have been actively pursuing the enforcement of foreign bribery. Switzerland is one of them and its efforts to crack down on this offence is commendable.
Between 2011 and 2024, Switzerland issued 14 final judicial orders at a federal level against Swiss-linked companies that engaged in foreign bribery. In these proceedings, the companies were ordered to hand over approximately CHF 730 million (combined) in illicit profits that they had obtained through their foreign bribery schemes, and an additional CHF 30 million in fines.
How corruption helps drug traffickers adapt to strengthened border enforcement
Corruption at border points remains a pressing global issue, threatening not only border integrity but also the health, safety and security of our societies. It enables illicit trafficking, facilitates organised crime and undermines trust in public institutions.
In our Working Paper 58, Saba Kassa and Jacopo Costa examine how corruption facilitates drug trafficking through the port of Rotterdam.
Working Paper 58: Corruption as a facilitator of drug trafficking in the port of Rotterdam
Drivers, strategies and implications
This Working Paper explores the drivers and strategies of corruption as a facilitator of drug trafficking in the port of Rotterdam, with a specific focus on cocaine trafficking. Through in-depth interviews with stakeholders, a review of judicial cases and desk research, it aims to:
Zambia convicts former foreign minister in "helicopter corruption trial" with international support
Warm congratulations to our partners at the Drug Enforcement Commission and National Prosecution Authority of Zambia for a successful outcome in a high-profile corruption case involving Zambia’s former Minister for Foreign Affairs.