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Measuring corruption: importance, developments and added value of Anti-Corruption Working Group 2021
G20
Corruption, in addition to undermining the concept of the rule of law and trust in institutions, damages international credibility, distorts competition and reduces investment, especially foreign one. According to the World Bank, corruption is the biggest obstacle to a country’s social and economic development. The G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group highlighted this negative correlation between corruption and growth as early as 2014, with the High-Level Principles on Corruption and Growth, negotiated under the direction of the Italian co-presidency.
East Africa: INTERPOL counter-terrorism border operation detects suspects, bomb-making chemicals
Interpol
LYON, France – Boosting the ability of frontline officers at air, land and sea border crossings to detect a traveler as a potential terrorist or criminal was the focus of an operation coordinated by INTERPOL across Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. With local and regional terrorist networks preying on insecure borders, Operation Simba III (19 – 28 March) saw the seizure by Ugandan authorities at the Mutukula border point of some 25 kg of ammonium nitrate and other materials used by terrorists to manufacture improvised explosive devices.
228 ARRESTS AFTER 70 000 INDIVIDUALS CHECKED ACROSS EUROPE TO TACKLE MOBILE CRIMINALITY
Europol
Operation Trivium XIV sees 17 countries target mobile criminal groups using the EU’s road infrastructure Between 13 and 16 April 2021, law enforcement authorities from 17 countries* targeted mobile organised crime groups active across Europe as part of the latest edition of operation Trivium. The operation was coordinated by the Netherlands and supported by Europol and is part of the EMPACT security initiative.