Anti-Corruption – Trends & Developments 2021

Anti-corruption Developments and the Relevance of Corporate Integrity Programmes

Overview and developments

Mexico improved its position in the Corruption Perceptions Index published by Transparency International for 2019, climb­ing eight positions from the previous ranking published one year before, in a move from position 138 to 130 (out of 198 countries, where number 1 is the least corrupt and 180 is the most corrupt).

The foregoing should be considered as a silver lining for a country that has historically struggled with institutional and long-established corruption practices at all levels of public and private office. However, recent legal reforms aiming at tack­ling and reducing corrupt practices and money-laundering, the prosecution of some high-end former public officers and white-collar crimes, and the creation of a yet-to-be improved programme for preventing and successfully prosecuting corrupt acts (the National Anti-corruption System), seem to be