Frank Vogl

Anti-Corruption • Ethics & Integrity

Frank has been engaged with global economics, banking, governance and anti-corruption for more than 40 years, as a journalist, as a World Bank senior official, as an anti-corruption civil society leader, and as a top level advisor to financial institutions.  Frank is President of Vogl Communications, Inc., which has provided advice to leaders of international finance for more than two decades.

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NO IMPUNITY - US Courageous Prosecutor Wins Verdict Against New York Power-Broker Sheldon Silver

December 07, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Transparency, US Politics, News

The need for honest politicians serving the public's interests is at the core of the American system of democracy. Nevertheless, in the US, as in every country, politics and corruption too often go hand-in-hand. Now a New York jury has brought in a historic set of verdicts. Will it change the New York game?

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December 07, 2015 /Frank Vogl
New York Assembly, Politics, Corruption, Prosecution, Impunity
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Transparency, US Politics, News
Comment

Restoring Banking Integrity - 10 Reform Proposals

October 14, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Transparency

Public trust in the biggest banks is low. I have 10 specific recommendations to cure the banks of their evil ways. Bankers will not like most of my proposals, but the time has come for radical reform.

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October 14, 2015 /Frank Vogl
LIBOR, Whistleblowers, Pay, Banking, Money Laundering, Reform, Culture, Foreign Exchange
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Transparency
Comment

Why the SDGs are so important in the fight against corruption

October 14, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Corruption

On 25 September 2015, the world’s leaders assembled at the UN in New York and made a historic statement in approving the 17 “Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” as the drivers of policies, programs and projects for national governments and multilateral institutions. The SDGs are to come into effect on January 1, 2016 and run to 2030.

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October 14, 2015 /Frank Vogl
NGOs, SDGs, United Nations, World Bank, Corruption, Crime
Corruption
Comment

Action Needed to Curb Corruption Crimes Against Women and Girls

September 28, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Corruption

In late September, world leaders meeting at the United Nations reviewed the progress being made to improve the human rights of women and girls across the globe. As The Guardian reported: "Twenty years after landmark conference in Beijing, more than 80 heads of state recommit to women’s empowerment, with progress vital to meet global goal."

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September 28, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Women's Empowerment
Corruption
Comment

The Fight Against Corruption: On the Home Stretch?

September 07, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance

Representatives from more than 110 countries met in Malaysia at the Transparency International annual meeting and then joined hundreds of other activists from across the world at the 2015 International Anti-Corruption Conference at the start of September. The timing was perfect, because later this month a landmark decision will be taken in the fight against impunity and corruption at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

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September 07, 2015 /Frank Vogl
China, Iraq, SDGs, United Nations, Corruption, Brazil, Transparency International
Accountability, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance
Comment

Tunisian Murder - Causes: Radicalization, Unemployment and Corruption

July 18, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Africa, Corruption, News

Very high youth unemployment in Tunisia, due in part to substantial corruption, as well as increasing activities by radical Islamic groups all contributed, I believe, to influence the mad gunman, 24-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui, to kill 38 people, mainly tourists.

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July 18, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Tunisia, World Bank, Corruption, Terrorism
Africa, Corruption, News
Comment

Understanding Violence and Genocide in Africa

June 16, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Africa, Corruption, Violence, Reading List

“South Africa Ignores its Obligations to Justice,” trumpeted The Financial Times in an editorial headline on June 16, 2015.

The previous day, while South Africa’s high court was preparing a possible arrest warrant on behalf of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Sudan’s President Omar el-Bashir departed for home in his presidential plane from a South African military airport. He had attended a meeting of the African Union – a body which has long decried the ICC and which has gone to lengths to protect African leaders who have been accused of massively murdering their citizens and, as in the case of el-Bashir, of genocide.

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June 16, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Cote d'Ivoire, Ethiopia, Genocide, Refugees, Scott Straus, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Africa, Rwanda, Mali
Africa, Corruption, Violence, Reading List
Comment

The FIFA Scandal - The Details on "The Enterprise"

June 01, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corruption, News

The more you dig into the details of the prosecutions that have been announced into world football (what is called soccer in the U.S.), so the more one understands the staggering scale of the conspiracies. “Let me be clear: this indictment is not the final chapter in our investigation,” stated Acting U.S. Attorney Kelly T. Currie of the Eastern District of New York. Indeed, there are likely to be many more cases, not just in the U.S. and Switzerland, but in other countries as well. 

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June 01, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Argentina, Egypt, FIFA, France, Morocco, Qatar, Russia, Switzerland, United States, Venezuela, Money Laundering, Corruption, Brazil, Sports, Tax Evasion, Trinidad
Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corruption, News
Comment

Corruption Complacency Must Be Challenged

May 25, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Transparency, Employment

From the comparatively modest malfeasance in the New York State legislature (both the State assembly Speaker as well as the Senate majority leader have been indicted for corruption) to the mega-million dollar graft engulfing Brazilian businessmen and politicians today, on to the all-consuming kleptocracy in the Kremlin, the abuse of public office for private gain is rampant.

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May 25, 2015 /Frank Vogl
EU Commission, Federal Election Commission, Kremlin, Nemtsov, New York State, Corruption, Brazil, Transparency International, Kleptocracy
Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, NGOs, Public Sector Governance, Transparency, Employment
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The Mounting Global Challenges of Rampant Corruption

March 20, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment

Multiple major corruption crises are splashing across the front pages of newspapers across the globe. Taken together, these crises are contributing to global insecurity and to financial and economic instability, while they are challenging freedom and democracy in many countries.

The individual cases of grand corruption involving political leaders are reported case by case. The dangerous mega-impact, however, is only really evident by looking at the crises in combination.

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March 20, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Global, Corruption, International Politics
Accountability, Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment
Comment

Explaining and Revealing Corruption - Three Must Read New Books

February 03, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Reading List

Some of the best of the recent books are attracting extraordinary attention in the United States. Sarah Chayes’s brand new Thieves of State – Why Corruption Threatens Global Security has been the topic of an hour-long national radio program, the focus of a lengthy The New Yorker article and centre stage in Washington’s think tank seminar listings.

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February 03, 2015 /Frank Vogl
Afghanistan, Russia, USA, Corruption, Books
Corruption, Reading List
1 Comment

America’s Exceptional Anticorruption Prosecutors

January 30, 2015 by Frank Vogl in Corruption

“An Albany Powerhouse on the Edge of a Volcano” ran the front page New York Times headline. Sheldon Silver, the long-serving Speaker of the New York State assembly, has been charged with a host of counts of corruption charges. Silver, who has occupied his post since 1994, is the third most powerful politician in New York (after the Governor of the state and the Mayor of New York City). He says he is innocent. Preet Bharara (photo), the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, supported by extensive evidence uncovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) takes a different view.

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January 30, 2015 /Frank Vogl
New York, US politics, Justice, Corruption, Prosecution, Bribery
Corruption
Comment

Promoting Press Freedom -- New Report Reviews U.S. Government Approaches

December 31, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Accountability, Corruption, Media, Public Sector Governance, State Department, Transparency, US AID

The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States guarantees freedom of expression by prohibiting Congress from restricting the press or the rights of individuals to speak freely. Today, the U.S. Government spends more than $100 million each year to promote the values of the First Amendment across the world.

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December 31, 2014 /Frank Vogl
Accountability, Corruption, Media, Public Sector Governance, State Department, Transparency, US AID
Comment

Afghanistan’s Bitter Future

December 31, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption

The United States has spent $104 billion on reconstruction in Afghanistan over the last 13 years. Approximately $62 billion of this total has been used to support the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).

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December 31, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
Afghanistan
Corruption
1 Comment

The Hard Facts of Global Corruption Action

December 23, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy

It takes two to tango to rob national treasuries and undermine global commerce: the government officials and politicians who take the bribes and, of course, the corporations who pay the bribes.

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December 23, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
OECD, Russia, Brazil, CPI, Transparency International
Corruption, Global Economy
Comment

Corruption Data Must be Wake Up Call to World Bank and UN

December 23, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance

A new global survey of corruption published by Transparency International (TI) shows an all-too-familiar picture of deep and far-reaching abuse of government positions by politicians and officials for their personal gain. More than two-thirds of the 175 countries covered by the survey show very high levels of corruption.

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December 23, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
OECD, United Nations, World Bank, CPI, Transparency International
Corruption, Global Economy, Public Sector Governance
1 Comment

G20 Needs to Boost Banking Supervison - Five Major Banks Pay Fines for Currency Manipulation

November 12, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment

 

On the eve of the Group of 20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia, a group of the world’s biggest banks have agreed to pay $4.2 billion in fines to U.K., U.S. and Swiss authorities to settle charges that they fixed international currency markets over many years.

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November 12, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
G20, Banking, Foreign Exchange
Corporate Governance, Corruption, Global Economy, Employment
Comment

To Boost Exports Many Governments Ignore Corporate Bribe-Paying

November 03, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption

Important trading powers, such as Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea and Brazil, are failing to enforce national laws that call for criminal prosecution of companies from their countries that bribe foreign government officials and politicians.

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November 03, 2014 /Frank Vogl
OECD, Transparency, Corruption, Anti-Corruption Agencies, Exports, Bribery
Corruption
Comment

Brave Chinese Anti-Corruption Reporter Wins Big

September 26, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corruption

It took enormous courage in 2012 for a Chinese reporter to go into print to expose one of the Chinese Communist Party's most senior officials for taking bribes and building a fortune by abusing his public office. Reporter Luo Changping did just that and, as a result, on September 24, 2014, Liu Tienan, the former deputy head of the National Reform and Development Commission, pleaded guilty in a trial in the northern province of Hebei.

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September 26, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
Integrity Award, China, Transparency International
Corruption
Comment

"No Impunity" Needs to be the Rule for Corrupt Politicians and Corporations

September 24, 2014 by Frank Vogl in Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, News


Finance Ministers of the Group of 20 leading global economies agreed to take measures against tax avoidance by giant global corporations at their meeting in Australia on September 20. This now needs to be seen by the G20 as a stepping stone towards far tougher and meaningful actions against illegal tax evaders, corrupt corporations and financial institutions that launder money for corrupt officials, politicians, criminal organizations and businesses.

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September 24, 2014 /Frank Vogl /Source
Al-Bashir, BNP Paribas, Sudan, Ukraine, Wal-Mart, Money Laundering, Transparency International
Corporate Governance, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corruption, Global Economy, News
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