The reputation of the Nordic countries for transparency and low corruption levels is "repeatedly being challenged", an anti-corruption campaign group has warned.
Sweden has the third lowest perceived levels of corruption in the world, according to a new report from the anti-corruption campaign group Transparency International.
Swedish telecom firm Telia will pay fines of nearly $1 billion to settle a bribery case brought by US, Swedish and Dutch authorities, the US Justice Department announced on Thursday.
Ericsson paid millions of kronor to the then-president of Costa Rica while competing for a major telecom contract in the Central American country, Swedish public radio reports.
Swedes consider business leaders and local politicians to be the most corrupt figures in the country, and every third Swede thinks the risk of reprisals stops corruption from being revealed, according to a new Transparency International survey.
Pressure is mounting on Sweden's state auditor (Riksrevisionen) after a newspaper's investigation revealed details of suspected conflicts of interest and cronyism within the agency.
Greek authorities are investigating seven employees of the Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson on suspicion of corruption, the company said Sunday, just days after it confirmed a separate US-led graft probe.
US authorities are investigating Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson over claims of corruption in its Chinese operations, the Svenska Dagbladet newspaper reported late on Thursday.
Swedish defence firm Saab paid around a billion kronor to shady middlemen as part of a controversial deal to sell fighter jets to South Africa, according to documents obtained by a Swedish tabloid.
Swedes enjoy some of the fairest treatment in the world, according to the latest global study to shine a light on the rule of law in the Scandinavian country.
Swedish engineering giant Skanska has decided to pull out of the South American market after being dragged into a corruption scandal involving the Brazilian oil major Petrobras.
Town hall staff in Helsingborg will soon have a clear channel to report suspected corruption, and bypass any boss who may be implicated in any potentially underhand activities.
On the heels of continued international criticism over Sweden's lack of political party funding transparency, new efforts are underway to ban anonymous party donations.
While Sweden was acknowledged as one of the least corrupt countries in the EU, a new report from the European Commission urges Sweden to ban anonymous political party donations.
The Swedish government wants to protect the identities of political party donors, a proposal that left the opposition crying foul on Monday. Sweden remains one of few EU countries without total party-funding transparency.
New EU confidentiality rules risk undermining Sweden's constitutionally protected right to information, critics have warned. The government said the new framework has its benefits.
Sweden's MPs should be forced to abide by a code of conduct to help reduce the risk of corruption, urges a new report that also raps the Riksdag for lax rules about gifts to elected officials.
A Swedish football club in the country's second league has decided to report match-fixing concerns to the Swedish police on Thursday, citing several suspected cases.
The chairwoman of the Swedish Employment Agency (Arbetsförmedlingen) board, which last week publicly mutinied against the CEO, runs a company that has taken contracts from the agency and received more public money than it was entitled to.
