Re: [Salon] Transparency International and corruption in the world

[Mayraj Fahim <fmayraj@yahoo.com>]

I think Switzerland is ranked too high because its banks have ill gotten gains from other countries. 

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/feb/22/how-swiss-banking-secrecy-global-financial-system-switzerland-tax-elite

 How Swiss banking secrecy enabled an unequal global financial system

https://www.transparency.org/en/blog/switzerland-beneficial-ownership-register-ending-corporate-secrecy

I think UK and US are too highly ranked also.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/29/roberto-saviano-london-is-heart-of-global-financial-corruption

Roberto Saviano: London is heart of global financial corruption

Speaking at the Hay festival, the anti-mafia journalist said British financial services made the UK the world’s most corrupt nation

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/27/uk-to-come-under-scrutiny-in-italys-largest-mafia-trial-in-decades

UK to come under scrutiny in Italy’s mafia trial in decades

Witnesses will be asked to respond to claims the ’Ndrangheta has laundered billions of euros in City of London

https://www.lawsociety.org.uk/topics/anti-money-laundering/two-fifths-of-organised-crime-networks-launder-money-through-property

Two-fifths of organised crime networks launder money through property

https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem/03-global-money-laundering-capital

The UK's kleptocracy problem

Corruption is embedded in US in different ways

One is the campaign related corruption that is at every level of government (federal. state and local). This is why the regulatory agencies are captured.

Then there is the tax haven aspec

https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/the-doorstep/20220115-american-kleptocracy-money-laundering-casey-michel

American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World's Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History

Then there is the petty corruption which I think is underreported because of the inefficient way it is discovered. The result one or more mosquitoes are caught in a fetid swamp.

On Thursday, February 13, 2025 at 06:27:26 AM GMT+5, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:

Transparency International, the highly respected European NGO, yesterday published their Corruption Index for 2024.  At the foot of this e-mail I've included the link to their site.

 

The least corrupt country in the world, at nº1, is Denmark. The most corrupt country in the world, at nº 180, is South Sudan.  The least corrupt country in the Americas, at nº 13, is Uruguay, followed, at nº 15, by Canada.  The US ranks 28th.

 

In Europe, after Denmark, Finland ranks 2nd, Luxembourg, Norway, and Switzerland are tied at 5th, Sweden is 8th, the Netherlands 9th, Ireland 10th, and Estonia 13th.  Behind Uruguay come Germany, 15th, the UK, 20th, Belgium, 22nd, France, 25th, Spain 46th, and Italy 52nd.

 

Argentina ranks 99th, tied with Ethiopia, Indonesia, Lesotho, and Morocco.  President Javier Milei is obviously doing a very good job.

 

 

https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024

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