62% of countries at high risk of defence and security corruption, index reveals
Nearly two-thirds of countries face a high to critical risk of corruption in their defence and security sectors, reveals the 2020 Government Defence Integrity Index (GDI), released today by Transparency International Defence & Security programme based within Transparency International UK. Countries that score poorly in the GDI have weak or non-existent safeguards against defence sector corruption and are more likely to experience conflict, instability and human rights abuses. View the scores The results come as global military spending has increased to