On September 19, 2017 Varuzhan Hoktanyan, Project Director of Transparency International Anticorruption Center participated in “Rebuilding Trust in Government”, an Open Government Partnership High-Level Side Event to the 72nd United Nations General Assembly held at UN Headquarters in New York. 

The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) results tables for 2014 and 2015 have been corrected for a number of countries because of an error discovered during a review of past CPI results. The mistake was due to a human error in transferring data from specific sources to the CPI computation files at Transparency International’s Secretariat.

Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organisation, is calling for politicians, banks and businesses that helped to launder the reputation of Azerbaijan across Europe to be investigated and, if appropriate, for the perpetrators to be sanctioned.