TI SAYS DEFENCE FIRMS FAILING TO COMBAT GRAFT
February 1st, 2021
Nearly three quarters of the world’s largest defence companies show minimum or no commitment to tackling corruption, according to the latest report from Transparency International. It assessed 134 firms based on publicly available information, including their own websites. Only two firms – Italy’s Leonardo, and Raytheon Technologies, of the United States, scored ‘A’ for their very high commitment to anti-corruption policies in TI’s Defence Companies Index on Anti-Corruption and Corporate Transparency (DCI) (1), with 14 graded ‘B’ for a high level ...
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