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Transparency International urges authorities to reopen US and Netherlands investigations into Eni and Shell for alleged bribe-paying in Nigeria

Both the US and the Netherlands had previously opened investigations into the OPL 245 deal but closed them due to a court case in Italy.

Global civic group, Transparency International, and its chapters in the Netherlands and the United States, have called on the authorities of the two countries to reopen investigations into the role of the Italian multinational energy company, Eni and the British multinational oil and gas company, Shell Plc, in the alleged oil bribery case in Nigeria. Recall that Eni and Shell had been accused of having paid over US$1billion in bribes to some persons under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s a...

As heads of states and governments gather for the Fourth Council of Europe Summit in Reykjavik on 16-17 May, Transparency International urges the Council…

While 2022 has seen some progress, advanced economies are still not pulling their weight in the fight against cross-border corruption.

Despite Finland's high ranking, the Finnish branch of Transparency International noted that the index has limited means to evaluate the level of corruption within a country.

It’s not uncommon for Swiss companies to be involved in international corruption scandals. But it’s rare that they’re held accountable at home.

In these times when all sorts of human rights violations have been ‘normalised,’ a crime which continues to be perpetrated everywhere but punished nowhere: corruption is also seen as a business as

Despite a few breakthroughs, multinational companies bribing their way into foreign markets go largely unpunished, and victims’ compensation is rare.

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