Welcome back to the podcast, bribes, swindle, or steel.

I'm Alexandra Rogge, and today we're listening in on Pascal Dubois's excellent talk at the recent Trace Forum in London,

where she provided a rapid-fire review of the global anti-corruption news.

Pascal is an international executive advisor and independent expert

who's been involved with anti-corruption efforts for two decades,

including as the World Bank's VP of the Integrity Vice Presidency.

And now, over to Pascal.

We're going to look at trends shaping the global landscape of anti-corruption.

Bribery is still everywhere. Corruption we will see continues to hurt specifically the poorer

countries. But the good thing is that it's much less accepted and that these days a lot is being

done about it. We're going to look at 46 years after

the FCPA, what are the trends, what are we looking at, and then some final thoughts. One thing that

I always keep in mind when looking at anti-corruption is that the pendulum keeps swinging. It used to be

very much here. It went very much there. These days, you know, it's sort of going back and forth a lot, right?

So we're going to be looking at the good, the bad, and then the, I'm not sure which one is,

you know, where this is going to go. But first, you know, a couple of recent examples. The Menendez

case in the US was very much in the news. A senator from New Jersey, and per the usual prosecutors, you know, they like to have pictures

of, in this case, gold bars, cars, cash, including cash in his senator's jacket.

He's got like a jacket.

He says, US Senate.

And in the jacket was stuffed with, you know, a cash.

I mean, a prosecutor's dream, total disaster in terms of what had happened.

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