After its huge bribery scandal, Siemens agreed to settle legal proceedings against it by funding anti-corruption work. Siemens uses these funds to finance the Austria-based International Anti-Corruption Academy (IACA). But the academy does not allow outsiders to scrutinize its finances. A joint investigation by CORRECTIV and the Austrian weekly magazine “News” has revealed evidence that…
The EastWest Institute (EWI) today announced the launch of its latest report, Afghan Narcotrafficking: Illicit Financial Flows. The fifth in a six-part series, this report has been developed to assist policymakers and scholars to better comprehend the nature of illicit flows of goods and services from and into Afghanistan and their relation to drug smuggling. The report…
The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime just published “Integrated Responses to Human Smuggling from the Horn of Africa to Europe” which was presented exclusively at the CCPCJ in Vienna this morning (May 24, 2017). In the period 2013-16, more than 1.5 million people have converged towards Europe from across Africa, the Middle East and…
Draft law #6220 undermines NABU independence and offers a tool to terminate any criminal investigation within NABU investigative jurisdiction. The draft law, that has already been adopted in the first reading and might be finally adopted on May 18, 2017, provides, that any criminal investigation must be closed if an investigation of the same facts and/or/or events (circumstances) has…
Following its ECOSOC nomination, the OCO is creating its specific OCO-UN Board that will regroup all professionals and persons that will deal with the ECOSOC and UN matters. The OCO is very pleased to announce today the nomination of the Professor Nikolaos PASSAS at the Head of the UN-OCO Board with representative powers to the…
Communiqué de l’OCO: L’OCO a pris connaissance de l’article posté par le blog « Sarawak report » en date du 7 mars 2017 indiquant que l’OCO et son Président, Nicolas Giannakopoulos, auraient incidemment agit au contraire de toute éthique dans l’organisation d’un séminaire consacré à la Gouvernance et la Corruption en Malaisie. L’OCO réfute totalement…
Une procédure a été lancée en Argentine pour savoir si le chef des services secrets a reçu des fonds suspects liés au scandale Petrobras sur un compte de Credit Suisse. La tentaculaire enquête “Lava Jato” sur la corruption entourant le groupe brésilien Petrobras, qui entache la place financière suisse, connaît un nouveau volet helvétique. A…
The following paper was originally produced as a submission of the Organized Crime Observatory, Geneva, to the European Commission. Excerpt: [The inception impact assessment (IIA) is ill-conceived, not grounded on firm empirical evidence and harmful to both crime control and the legitimate interests and rights of the EU citizens. The action under discussion is presented…
On 30 November 2016, after more than four years of investigation, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Verden and the Lüneburg Police (Germany) in close cooperation with the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice and the FBI, Europol, Eurojust and global partners, dismantled an international criminal infrastructure platform known…
Depuis la publication en 2015 de son rapport concernant les problématiques actuelles en Ukraine, l’OCO continue de suivre activement l’évolution de la situation. Au cours de l’année 2016, plusieurs évènements se sont passés concernant, de près plutôt que de loin, les thèmes de la lutte contre la corruption et de la gestion des biens de…
