Financial Transparency Coalition

New York, NY, United States, — As China has become the world’s most attractive nation for foreign direct investment, multinational companies that do business there have encountered a number of unspoken rules they must follow. One of these is the bribery of Chinese officials.

The Star-Ledger - In his boldest play yet to force the resignation of Ridgefield's mayor, Gov. Jon Corzine signed an executive order yesterday freezing state approvals for development projects in any city or town where a mayor has been charged with public corruption but refuses to step down.

ALEXANDRIA, VA. -- Jurors in the federal corruption trial of former Rep. William Jefferson completed a third day of deliberations Monday without reaching a verdict, extending a nervous time for everyone involved.

The proposed resolution to a U.S. government demand for information about thousands of Americans suspected of using Swiss accounts to evade taxes would leave Swiss bank secrecy intact, a top Swiss official has said.