The whistleblowing landscape has changed significantly over the last years. High profile cases have prompted new whistleblower protection regulations and legislation across the globe. But whistleblowing is no longer just a matter of legal interest. It has also become a societal issue. Names such as Edward Snowden, Julien Assange, or Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning have …
The King IV Code on Corporate Governance strongly recommends organisations to have a whistleblowing mechanism in place to establish an ethical corporate culture. A whistleblowing mechanism can be in the form of an internal ethics hotline or an external whistleblowing facility. Anonymous reporting lines were first established to receive reports of fraud and theft and were often …
By Mustafa Yusuf-Adebola, CFE, CPA, CIA Earlier this year, the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Akinwunmi Adesina was accused of “multiple abuses and breaches of the Bank’s code of ethics.” As reported by a French newspaper, among other things, Adesina was accused of “violation of the code of conduct” and “hindrance to efficiency (…) affecting confidence in the …
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