Corruption thrives in silence and isolation. In response, several hundred representatives of governments, business and civil society gathered today in Vienna to celebrate with some pomp the opening of the International Anti-Corruption Academy.

Time was that for Bulgaria, the measurements involved in a European Commission report were an uncomfortable business.

European Union law enforcement officials say Kosovo's Central Bank Governor Hashim Rexhepi has been arrested after police searched his home and office in a corruption investigation.

Bulgaria’s former prime minister on Thursday rejected accusations he had mislaid classified documents while in office, saying the case against him was “a politically-inspired farce.”

President Nicolas Sarkozy is reeling at the centre of a corruption row that makes expenses claims for moat cleaning and duck houses look positively virtuous.

In a box in a drawer, I've a dozen Deutsche marks, a few French and Belgian francs, Italian lira, Spanish pesetas, Greek drachmas, Turkish lira and British pence.

A top official at China's food and drug safety watchdog who is under investigation has been linked to alleged bribery cases involving US giant Johnson & Johnson, a Chinese newspaper reported.

Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou promised to undo decades of welfare policy to win an international bailout for Greece. Keeping the lifeline will force him to reverse another legacy left by past leaders, including his father: corruption and a bloated bureaucracy.

A former U.S. Army intelligence colonel has emerged as the focus of investigations into corruption in Kyrgyzstan, the Central Asian host to an American air base and hub of fuel supplies to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Daimler is alleged to have made payments or provided other benefits to officials of "at least" 22 governments, according to papers filed by the Department of Justice. It is alleged that the payments were made starting in 1998 and ending in 2008.