Financial Transparency Coalition

LOS ANGELES — A filmmaking couple devised an intricate system of bribes to Thai officials in order to land lucrative projects such as the Bangkok International Film Festival, a federal prosecutor said Wednesday during opening statements of their trial.

BBC News -- The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) says it will use phone tapping and surveillance to uncover British companies involved in corruption abroad.

BBC News -- The head of Zambia's anti-corruption task force, Maxwell Nkole, has been removed one week after the acquittal of former President Frederick Chiluba.

NEW DELHI — Endemic corruption is harming India's reputation overseas, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday, warning that foreign investors were being scared away by the "menace".