It finally happened
Seven years ago I worked as head of CorpCom in a software company and as it goes, the job did instill in me the strong urge to go back to academia. My idea was to ...READ MORE
German UNCAC Ratification is Lipstick on a Pig
Abgeordnetenwatch.de has a good (if devastating) analysis of the German UNCAC ratification. It already is pretty sad that it took ze germans 11 years to cough up a law against bribing Members of Parliament so ...READ MORE
Bribing MPs soon illegal in Germany
Finally the German Bundestag made a move and eleven years and three governments after the United Nation Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC) was signed by Germany, it can now finally be ratified. Until now it had ...READ MORE
Human Nascars
Terence Eden has an article on the »Nascar Proposal«. The proposal that politicians should wear logos of who paid them in order to make lobbyism more transparent is not new, but Terence has gathered ...READ MORE
Fabulous Fab and Obama’s Promise
Gregg Fields from Harvard’s Lab writes on the prosecution of Goldman Sachs’ Fabrice Tourre. When the housing bubble burst, many lost a lot and few earned obscenely much through a security called ABACUS 2007-AC1 ...READ MORE
Prescription Drugs and Corruption
Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics has an interesting, yet disturbing post on a forthcoming article on institutional Corruption, Pharma and prescription drugs (Light, Lexchin, Darrow (2013): Institutional Corruption of Pharmaceuticals and the Myth ...READ MORE
Medical Practitioners cannot be Corrupt
At the moment, medical practitioners in Germany can only be corrupt when employed by someone else. As long as they practice on their own, German law to date knows no way of finding them corrupt ...READ MORE
Top 10 Corruption Sentences
Wall Street’s Corruption Currents turns two on Wednesday. As a way of celebration, they nominated the top 10 corruption related jail sentences. The winners are:
- Joel Esquenazi
- Rod Blagojevich
- Viktor Bout
- James Ibori
- R. Allen
Can We Buy Your Loyalty?
The US Dodd-Frank-Act was signed into federal law in 2010 and, according to wikipedia, it
...READ MOREbrought the most significant changes to financial regulation in the United States since the regulatory reform that followed the Great
The Dark Side of the Moon
Transparency International calls it »the biggest bribery story of 2012«:
...READ MOREIn September 2005, a senior Wal-Mart lawyer received an alarming e-mail from a former executive at the company’s largest foreign subsidiary, Wal-Mart de
Germany Fails GRECO Deadline
When it comes to UNCAC (United Nations Convention Against Corruption), Germany is in the good to shady company of Bhutan, Côte d’Ivoire, Japan, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and the Syrian Arab Republic (many of ...READ MORE
Bulgaria’s Deadly Game
Margot Dunne: Bulgaria’s Deadly Game. BBC World Service (24.8.2012) mp3, 11MB 24min:
...READ MORENo fewer than twenty football bosses have been murdered in Bulgaria in the last decade. In Assignment, Margot Dunne explores reports
The Shocking Truth
The Guardian has a very interesting and insightful article on »The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy« by Naomi Wolf.
In her article she sheds much light on the many (dim to ...READ MORE
Shooting of activist »unfortunate«
The Guardian has a piece on the »unfortunate shooting« of Indian anti-corruption activist Shehla Masood. ...READ MORE