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Estonia has climbed one spot on year to rank at fifth lowest risk for corruption in the 2022 Global Corruption Index (GCI) compiled and published by risk management company Global Risk Profile (GRP). Norway topped the GCI ranking this year as least...

Amendments to the Political Parties Act initiated during the previous government's time have, following a round of coordination, gotten stuck in the Ministry of Justice. Minister Lea Danilson-Järg described the bill to ramp up party funding...

A local entrepreneur and several Kohtla-Järve council members and officials were arrested on corruption charges on Tuesday, the Police and Border Guard Board (PPA) announced. The charges are related to the giving and receiving of bribes and...

Siret Kotka, deputy chair of the Social Affairs Committee of the Riigikogu and a member of the Center Party, who owns several apartments in Tallinn, lives in a rented flat and collects her housing allowance from the Chancellery of the Riigikogu. The...

Key to a current controversy on the nomination of Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus to the poast of Estonia's representative to the European Court of Auditors (ECA) is the extent to which the minister was involved in that nomination process...

The state's public data shows that private companies in Estonia are more involved in lobbying than civil society organizations (CSO), Carina Paju, member of NGO Transparency International Estonia (Korruptsioonivaba Eesti), writes in daily Eesti...

Correspondence and documents obtained by daily Eesti Päevaleht (EPL) show that ride-hailing platform Uber lobbied for legislative changes around the world, and that Kalle Palling, a former Reform Party MP, was involved on multiple occasions in...

A City of Tallinn official has been detained by the Internal Security Service (ISS), on suspicion of involvement in bribery. On Tuesday, a court allowed Liinat to be detained for up to two months. Tõnis Liinat (Center), who is elder of the Pirita...

Citing a data leak, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) reported that billions of euros from suspicious sources have been moved through the Baltic branches of Nordea and Norway's DNB banks. According to Yle's information, at least part of the...

State officials met more with private sector lobbyists than those from any other sector, over the past year, according to data whose collection the justice ministry made mandatory from last March. Meetings involving the third sector (NGOs) accounted...