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Biden: Government Must Draft Anti-Corruption Plan by December

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Going after the Achilles heel : Biden charges into global anti-corruption fight

Going after the ‘Achilles’ heel’: Biden charges into global anti-corruption fight POLITICO 3/16/2021 By Nahal Toosi © Patrick Semansky/AP Photo President Joe Biden speaks at the White House on Monday, March 15, 2021. Earlier this month, amid a blizzard of news both domestic and foreign, Secretary of State Antony Blinken took the time to ban a powerful Ukrainian oligarch from setting foot in the United States. Ihor Kolomoyskyy, declared Blinken, was involved in “significant corruption” having been accused of everything from looting billions from a bank to funding a private militia. Kolomoyskyy, a former governor of a Ukrainian province, used his office for his personal benefit in ways that “undermined [the] rule of law and the Ukrainian public’s faith in their government’s democratic institutions,” Blinken alleged. Not only did Blinken bar Kolomoyskyy (who denies wrongdoing) from obtaining a U.S. visa, he barred the oligarch’s immedia

A new US award honors anti-corruption advocates around the world

Listen to the story. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks on foreign policy at the State Department, March 3, 2021, in Washington. Credit: Share When the US State Department announced the new International Anticorruption Champions Award last month, it set off ripples of media coverage across the world. The award honors anti-corruption advocates in countries where democracy is under attack and the COVID-19 pandemic has created opportunities for corruption to thrive.  A dozen inaugural winners  nominated by US embassies  were named, including Ecuador’s attorney general; the chairman of Libya’s National Oil Corporation; and a director at the Central Bank of Iraq. 

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