DEFENCE AND SECURITY GRAFT A RISK IN 62% OF COUNTRIES
November 2nd, 2021
Nearly two-thirds of 86 countries assessed worldwide face a high to critical risk of corruption in their defence and security sectors, according to the 2020 Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI) (1) that the Transparency International defence and security programme published November 16. Countries that score poorly in the GDI when assessed across five risk areas – financial, operational, personal issues, political risk and procurement systems – have weak or non-existent safeguards against corruption in the USD2 trillion spent annually on defence worldwide. ...
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