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Afghans pay close to $3b in bribes annually, says survey.  Integrity Watch Afghanistan's biennial National Corruption Survey, launched 8 December 2016, estimates that $3 billion were paid in bribes in the last one year—an almost 50% increase compared to 2014.

Integrity Watch Afghanistan: http://iwaweb.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=8e3022a1062590fbb7ae8d6a2&id=6fed5090aa&e=0fd0efcf18

In Vietnam, 10% of corruption assets recovered.  In the last ten years, only 10 per cent of assets worth VNĐ60 trillion (approximately US$2.65 billion) involved in nearly 1,900 corruption cases have been recovered, according to Ngô Mạnh Hùng, Deputy Director of the Việt Nam Anti-Corruption Bureau under the Government Inspectorate (GI), at the Multi-Stakeholder Roundtable on the Second Review Cycle of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, co-hosted by GI and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crimes.

Vietnam News: http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/law-justice/347669/10-of-corruption-assets-recovered.html#YiAmPPW6rhe5wCPe.97

Fighting Corruption by Combating Sexual Extortion.  "Sexual extortion, or what law enforcement officials commonly call sextortion, is a type of corruption in which “sex rather than money is the currency of the bribe,” and it affects women and girls (and some men and boys) around the world."

Jamille Bigio and Lauren Hoffman/Council on Foreign Relations: http://blogs.cfr.org/women-around-the-world/2016/12/09/fighting-corruption-by-combating-sexual-extortion/

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