15 Facts About Transparency International

1.

Since 2005, Transparency International has published thirteen Exporting Corruption reports.

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2.

Transparency International is the global civil society organization leading the fight against corruption.

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3.

Since 1995, Transparency International has issued an annual Corruption Perceptions Index ; it publishes a Global Corruption Report, a Global Corruption Barometer, and a Bribe Payers Index.

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4.

In 2010, Transparency International developed a five-year strategy with six strategic priorities organized by the following categories: People, Institutions, Laws, Values, Network, Impact.

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5.

In 2015, Transparency International developed a five-year strategy which sets out their collective ambition for the coming years.

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6.

Together against Corruption: Transparency International Strategy 2020 is a strategy by and for the Transparency International movement.

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The second issue is that data cannot be compared from year to year because Transparency International uses different methodologies and samples every year.

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8.

Transparency International should be recognized as a whistleblower for his help to reveal the over-reaching and unlawful surveillance by secret services.

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9.

Five months earlier, in June 2013, representatives from Transparency International declined Snowden's request to meet him at the Moscow airport.

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10.

In January 2015 it was reported that Transparency International accepted $3 million from the German engineering multinational Siemens, which in 2008 paid one of the largest corporate corruption fines in history – $1.

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11.

In 2014, Siemens made the donation to Transparency International after pleading guilty in 2008 to bribery charges relating to widespread corrupt practices in Greece, Norway, Iraq, Vietnam, Italy, Israel, Argentina, Venezuela, China and Russia.

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Transparency International applied for and received the funding from Siemens, even though TI's due diligence procedures prohibit the organization from accepting money from corporations that want to "greenwash" their reputations by making donations to TI.

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13.

Transparency International received the funding from the Siemens Integrity Initiative about a year after the Initiative hired former TI staffer Jana Mittermaier, raising questions of a "revolving door" that has benefited both the organization and the company.

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14.

Transparency International left TI shortly before internal whistleblower guidelines were adopted in June 2014.

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15.

In 2017, Cobus de Swardt stood down as Transparency International's Managing Director, following a dispute with the organisation's Board of Directors.

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