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Donald Trump’s presidency is the subject of extensive allegations and watchdog reports asserting an unprecedented scale of self-enrichment and transactional politics; multiple recent analyses claim hi...
Vendors on carding and darknet markets convert crypto to fiat through a mix of commercial crypto‑fiat rails (crypto cards, payment gateways, exchanges) and illicit intermediaries: OTC brokers, mixers,...
Evidence compiled by multiple watchdog groups, scholars and news organizations portrays the Trump administrations — both 2017–2021 and the second term beginning in 2025 — as marked by repeated ethics ...
Transparency indexes and observers place Ukraine ahead of Russia on corruption metrics: Transparency International data cited by CEPA and other summaries put Ukraine around 105th and Russia around 154...
Donald Trump’s presidency and return to office have prompted watchdogs and Democratic officials to label his conduct “unprecedented” in scale — CREW counted more than 3,700 conflicts of interest from ...
Attempting to bribe a teacher to avoid detention or improve grades is both widely reported as a real phenomenon and treated as misconduct by schools and, in some contexts, by law; anti-corruption repo...
Russia ranks very poorly on objective global measures of public‑sector corruption: Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index gave Russia 22/100 and placed it 154th of 180 countrie...
Donald Trump repeatedly criticized the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and in February 2025 signed an executive order pausing much enforcement of the law, directing the Justice Department to...
Formation agents — also called company formation agents, nominee incorporation services (NIS) or trust and company service providers — can materially ease the creation, concealment and operation of sh...
When the Attorney General (AG) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) appear corrupt, the Republic relies on an array of internal watchdogs, external prosecutors, judges and political overseers to restor...
Ukraine is widely perceived as a country with significant public‑sector corruption: Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) places Ukraine near the middle of the global pa...
Public reporting documents many cases where state assets — from cash to gold and company shares — were illicitly moved abroad into banks, property and shell companies in financial centres such as Swit...
Allegations that a U.S. president “mists” or “corrupts” an administration by proof rather than accusation reflect a larger debate: multiple watchdogs, lawmakers and news outlets say recent presidencie...
Corruption remains a pervasive global problem: Transparency International’s 2024 Corruption Perceptions Index shows a global average of 43 with over two‑thirds of countries scoring below 50 and 148 co...
Probable evidence of corruption most often surfaces through convictions, prosecutions, asset restraints, and independent diagnostics: U.S. Justice Department data recorded 31 official corruption convi...
Major global indices of freedom and corruption—like Freedom House’s Freedom in the World, RSF’s World Press Freedom Index, the Human Freedom Index, and Transparency International’s Corruption Percepti...
Recent UK actions to compel or influence overseas registries have focused primarily on the Register of Overseas Entities (ROE): the government has tightened disclosure and verification duties for non‑...
Watchdog and ethics groups base presidential corruption rankings mainly on expert perceptions, prosecution and enforcement records, bribery and diversion of public funds, and institutional safeguards ...
Investigations, commissions and reporting show the so‑called “Vancouver Model” mixed foreign capital and drug cash through casinos, real estate and underground banking — with official inquiries conclu...
Donald Trump repeatedly made public statements while president criticizing enforcement of U.S. anti‑bribery law and then signed an executive order pausing enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices ...