World Bank Hosts Meeting of Governments on Anti-Corruption

On December 6, 2010, the World Bank Group hosted a meeting of the International Corruption Hunters Alliance, a network of more than 200 anti-corruption officials from 134 countries. They met for the first time at the World Bank’s Headquarters on December 6-8, 2010, to establish global investigation and prosecution of corrupt actors. The Australian, Norwegian and Danish government contributed to financing the meeting. One goal of the meeting was to accelerate referral action resulting from World Bank investigations in support of a global enforcement mechanism..(more)...