Regional Workshop on Corruption Risk Assessment and Institutional Integrity was held on May 30-31 in Podgorica, Montenegro. The event was jointly organized by Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative – RAI and RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation, hosted by the Ministry of Defence of Montenegro. The objective of the Workshop was to increase capacity of public authorities in the field of corruption […]

Moldovan anticorruption prosecutors have detained the mayor of Chisinau and several other city officials on suspicion of corruption. Dorin Chirtoaca and the other officials, including a deputy mayor, were taken to Moldova’s National Anticorruption Center (CNA) on the evening of May 25 and ordered held for 72 hours after prosecutors searched city hall for several […]

Ukrainian authorities Wednesday arrested 23 former high-ranking tax officials who are suspected of helping ex-President Viktor Yanukovych’s government to defraud the state of nearly US$ 4 billion. Interior Minister Arsen Avakov and Chief Military Prosecutor Anatoliy Matios said at a press conference that the arrests took place over the course of 454 raids in 15 regions across […]

Transnational organized crime groups are exploiting gaps in law enforcement to create new markets and expand their operations, UNODC Executive Director, Yury Fedotov said at a high-level security conference today.   During the conference opening, Mr. Fedotov delivered welcoming remarks on behalf of UN Secretary-General António Guterres who thanked the Russian Federation for hosting the […]

Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI) Secretariat, represented by Programme and Outreach Officer, Ms Jasna Panjeta, and Intern, Ms Dženeta Tabaković, took an active part in the Southeast Europe Peer Exchange organized on the 23rd  and 24th  May 2017 in Sarajevo by the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The focus of the conference was peer exchange of good practices […]

Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI) Secretariat, represented by Head of Secretariat, Mr. Vladan Joksimovic and Anti-corruption Expert, Mr Tomislav Curic, took an active part in the Joint Conference organized on the 22nd May 2017 by the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council (VSTV BiH). The focus of the conference were the analysis reports on the work of judicial […]

The Plovdiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office has ordered that Assenovgrad chief architect Kostadin Atanassov and businessman Mitkov Zahariev be held in 72-hour custody while a pre-trial investigation into corruption is underway, prosecutors said on May 20. The State Agency for National Security and economic crimes squad have begun an investigation into corruption at the municipality, which […]

The nine-year-long trial of a flamboyant former mayor and 36 businessmen and public employees charged with corruption, abuse of public service, forgery and complicity in illegal sales of beaches has reached a close.   The Bucharest Appeal Court was set to issue a sentence on Friday in Romania’s longest-ever corruption trial that has lasted nine […]

People suspected of corruption and criminal offenses and those who are under investigation, may not be included on the candidate lists. The lack of a law and a code of conduct which sanctions this allows political parties to include people with criminal records or people under investigation on their lists. The head of the Central […]

Regional Anti-corruption Initiative (RAI), in cooperation with the Anti-corruption Agency Kosovo* and UNDP in Kosovo* supported by the Austrian Development Agency is holding the Round Table on Anti-corruption Assessment of Laws (corruption proofing in legislation) in Kosovo* The roundtable is organized under the Southeast Europe Regional Programme on Strengthening the Capacity of Anti-corruption Authorities and […]