“Systemic corruption and kleptocracy in other countries are not merely inconveniences or added costs to doing business. Rather, corruption undermines U.S. national security, and the United States should use all its available tools to combat and deter corrupt actors.”
-KI’s Executive Director Charles Davidson and CNAS Visiting Fellow Kate Bateman, The Hill. For more detail, see KI’s ‘Five Steps to Fight Kleptocracy‘.
KI will be hosting the launch of a report by Marius Laurinavičius, ‘Weaponizing Kleptocracy: Putin’s Hybrid Warfare’ on Wednesday 6/14 from 9-10:30am. More information and registration available here.
News
Leaked documents show Russian and Serbian attempts to meddle in Macedonia, as well as to support anti-Western and pro-Russian nationalists in Macedonia.
Moscow’s Lyublinsky District Court has given the full text of the judgement on oligarch Alisher Usmanov’s anti-defamation lawsuit against opposition activist and blogger Alexei Navalny and the Anti-Corruption Foundation to both sides.
Features
2016 - A year for the FCPA record books and what it means for compliance practitioners.
NED Forum Q&A: Judge Mark Wolf on kleptocracy and the feasibility of an International Anti-Corruption Court.
