Daily Corruption News
9 October 2017

Today's Top Story

Global: Survey shows 90 million people in LatAm admit paying bribes
The Rio Times (TI mention)

A survey released this morning (Monday, October 9th) by Transparency International shows that almost two-thirds of people in Latin America feel that corruption increased in the last year and over ninety million people admitted to paying bribes to use a public service in the last twelve months.

Other News

Global: (Spanish) México, el país de América Latina donde se pagan más sobornos, según TI - Mexico, the Latin American country with the biggest bribery issues, according to TI
EFE (TI mention)
Global: Airbus corruption scandal may lead straight to the top
Der Spiegel
Australia: Commonwealth Bank shareholders launch class action over money-laundering scandal
ABC News
China: China's disciplinary watchdog says it has punished over 1.34 million corrupt officials under Xi Jinping
OCCRP
Czech Republic: Police charge Czech PM candidate Babis with subsidy fraud
Reuters
Pakistan: Pakistani anti-corruption body arrests son-in-law of ousted PM Sharif
Reuters

Blog/Opinion

Global: Corruption, not India, is CPEC's biggest threat
Forbes (TI mention)
Liberia: Africa’s best footballer, an ex-warlord and a former model all want to be Liberia’s next president
Newsweek (TI mention)

From Transparency International

Feature: Corruption on the rise in Latin America and the Caribbean
Press Release: About 1 in 3 people using public services in Latin America and Caribbean paid a bribe in past year

 

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