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The measurable cost of corruption across Europe

€1,245,001,561

an equivalent of

  • 31× Annual teacher salaries
  • 1,383× Annual salaries of nurses
  • 20,750× Ambulance
  • 622,500,780× Bread

What is the EU Funds Corruption Controller?

The EU Funds Corruption Controller is a public archive of verified corruption and financial crime cases across the European Union. It brings together court decisions, indictments and official findings, and presents them with their sources, so that citizens, journalists and researchers can see what happened, where and with what result.

Corruption awareness

Learn to recognise the warning signs, from unusually restrictive tenders to officials with undisclosed interests.

Education

Plain-language explainers on how corruption works, what it costs and how institutions respond to it.

Ideas

Examples of safeguards that work: open public contracts, accessible data, independent prosecutors and a free press.

Control

Every case links to its sources, and open investigations are labelled so that suspicion is never mistaken for a verdict.

The hidden costs of corruption

How to spot corruption

Reporting corruption without fear

EU without corruption

Corruption thrives where decisions are made out of sight and nobody is held to account. It is weakened by the opposite: open public contracts, accessible data, independent prosecutors and a free press. Each of these makes wrongdoing harder to hide and easier to prove, and each depends on citizens who know what to look for.

You do not have to be an investigator to help. Learn the warning signs, such as unusually restrictive tenders, contracts split to avoid scrutiny or officials with undisclosed interests. If you suspect wrongdoing, report it to the competent national authority, to the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) or to the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF). EU rules on whistleblower protection exist so that people who speak up in good faith are shielded from retaliation. A suspicion is not proof, so the Calculator presents only what is publicly documented, and leaves guilt to the courts.

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Recent media coverage of corruption and financial-crime cases across the European Union, collected from news outlets.

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EU Funds Corruption Controller

The EU Funds Corruption Controller is a project of the European Liberal Forum. It collects publicly documented cases of corruption and financial crime across the European Union and presents them with their sources, in plain language.

How to contact us
Questions or corrections about a case? Write to iec@liberalforum.eu.
European Liberal Forum EUPF, Rue d’Idalie 11-13, box 6, 1050 Ixelles, Brussels (BE).