Global Whistleblowers

The news from Transparency International is not good. This year’s Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) reveals that a majority of countries are showing little to no improvement in tackling corruption. Our analysis also shows corruption is more pervasive in countries where big money...

The business writers at The New York Times promise a bump in white-collar crime news in 2020. At the same time, a series of reports raise concerns about oversight of the accounting industry. From The Times: Goldman Sachs is negotiating...

The New York Times offers a profile of a family that had to flee their Russian homeland -- to an American city "they would rather not name' -- after blowing the whistle on athletic doping. “We are just like any...

The job of the investigative journalist is to look at how things are supposed to work and report when something is amiss. Sometimes they can follow a paper trail and talk to enough people on the record to get the...

Facebook has  "made little progress" in dealing with the problem of auto-generated pages for terror groups, according to reporting from The Associated Press.  The story is a follow-up on an April report that concluded the pages "are aiding Middle East...

Over at The Government Accountability Project, they use the upcoming film “Official Secrets” to talk about potential national security whistleblower missteps. The film, which opens at the end of August, tells the tale of British intelligence translator Katharine Gun. In 2003,...

As strange as it might sound, whistleblowers in Australia have reason to rejoice – so long as they are in the private sector. Thanks to new laws that came into effect this month, private-sector whistleblowers have a range of new...

Danske Bank whistleblower Howard Wilkinson testifies during hearing at the EU Parliament Brussels, Belgium November 21, 2018. The news program 60 Minutes had a piece on the Danske bank scandal and whistleblower Howard Wilkinson on Sunday. He exposed Russian money...

From Feb.1:  “International Conference on Anticorruption Policies” took place in Attica, Greece on Feb. 1. Sponsored by the Hellenic Anti-Corruption Organization. Speakers at the meeting included Vladimir Hrle from the European Criminal Bar Association, Ciro Stazzeri from Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption...

Much of the $234 billion laundered through the Danske Bank started in Russia and ended in the U.S, as dollars, a whistleblower told the European Parliament in November. Rep. McHenry Now, a growing number of U.S. investigators want to know...