What Does Corruption Look Like?

TOP: 24 APR 2013. SAVAR, BANGLADESH. REUTERS/ANDREW BIRAJ

BOTTOM LEFT: 24 APR 2013. SAVAR, BANGLADESH. REUTERS/ANDREW BIRAJ

BOTTOM RIGHT: 4 MAY 2013. SAVAR, BANGLADESH. REUTERS/ANDREW BIRAJ

The collapse of Rana Plaza, built on swampy ground outside the capital Dhaka, killed 1,135 workers, many of them making garments for Western retailers.

A former chief engineer of the state-run Capital Development Authority said the owner had not received proper consent for the building, and that an extra three stories were added illegally.

The disaster ranks amongst the world's worst industrial accidents, and sparked an outcry for greater safety in the world's second-largest exporter of ready-made garments.

Global fashion retailers say the tragedy prompted them to work together more closely to protect workers and ensure the safety of buildings. There has also been legislation to ensure greater supply-chain transparency.

The destruction of Brazil's Amazon forest, the world's largest intact rainforest, increased by 16 percent in 2015 as the government struggled to enforce legislation and stop illegal clearings in a region the size of western Europe.

Deforestation makes up to around 15 percent of world's heat-trapping gases, more than the entire transport sector. Besides being a giant carbon sink, the Amazon is a biodiversity sanctuary, holding myriad species yet to be studied.

"It remains the case that many of the world's largest companies and their financial backers pay scant, by which I really mean no, attention to the deforestation footprint of their supply chains," the prince told delegates.” - Britain’s Prince Charles

TOP: 23 SEP 2013. NOVO PROGRESSO, BRAZIL. REUTERS/NACHO DOCE

BOTTOM LEFT: 7 AUG 2014. CENTRO DO GUILHERME, BRAZIL. REUTERS/LUNAE PARRACHO

BOTTOM RIGHT: 3 SEP 2015. RIO PARDO, BRAZIL. REUTERS/NACHO DOCE

Chemical blasts in the Chinese port city of Tianjin killed 165 people in 2015. The government put losses at the 10th busiest port in the world at more than $1 billion.

An official report on the disaster blamed the ignition of hazardous materials which had been improperly or illegally stored on site. Company executives also said they made use of their connections to get fire safety and environmental approvals.

Anger over safety standards is growing in China, after three decades of swift economic growth marred by incidents from mining disasters to factory fires. President Xi Jinping has vowed that authorities will learn the lessons paid for with blood.

TOP: 14 AUG 2015. TIANJIN, CHINA. REUTERS/JASON LEE

BOTTOM LEFT: 17 AUG 2015. TIANJIN, CHINA. REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOON

BOTTOM RIGHT: 14 AUG 2015. TIANJIN, CHINA. REUTERS/DAMIR SAGOLJ

The more than 11.5 million documents leaked from Mossack Fonseca cast light on the financial arrangements of an array of politicians and public figures and the companies and financial institutions they use.

Several governments across the world have initiated  investigations of possible financial wrongdoing after a leak of four decades of documents belonging to the Panamanian law firm that specialized in setting up offshore companies.

The papers have caused public outrage over how world's rich and powerful are able to stash their cash and avoid taxes while many people suffer austerity and hardship.

ABOVE: 6 APR 2016. PANAMA CITY, PANAMA. REUTERS/CARLOS JASSO

Volkswagen admitted about 11 million cars worldwide were fitted with software to cheat diesel emissions tests that are designed to limit car fumes blamed for respiratory diseases and global pollution.

Toshiba was found to have inflated results by around $1.2 billion over several years. It was Japan's biggest accounting scandal since Olympus Corp in 2011.

FIFA was thrown into crisis by U.S. investigations into alleged widespread financial wrongdoing stretching back more than two decades. Sepp Blatter, who had led soccer's world governing body since 1998, was banned from soccer activities for ethics violations.

TOP: 18 NOV 2015. LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES. REUTERS/LUCY NICHOLSON

BOTTOM LEFT: 21 JUL 2015. TOKYO, JAPAN. REUTERS/TORU HANAI

BOTTOM RIGHT: 20 JUL 2015. ZURICH, SWITZERLAND. REUTERS/ARND WIEGMANN

The 2007 presidential vote in when incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the re-elected victor was disputed by opponents and erupted into bloodletting that drove 350,000 people from their homes.

More than 1,200 people were slaughtered, many butchered by machete, burnt alive or shot with bows and arrows as the country's biggest tribes turned on one another.

TOP: 23 APR 2007. KANO, KENYA. REUTERS/RADU SIGHETI

BOTTOM LEFT: 7 FEB 2008. ELDORET, KENYA. REUTERS/GEORGINA CRANSTON

BOTTOM RIGHT: 30 DEC 2007. NAOROBI, KENYA. REUTERS/NOOR KHAMIS

Jimmy Morales, a former TV comedian, was carried to the presidency on a wave of public anger over political corruption uncovered by the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala.

Set up to deal with paramilitary gangs in 2007, the CICIG went from being an obscure, forgotten office of the United Nations to a force that ousted President Otto Perez

Information gleaned from the cell phone of a Chinese businessman caught up in a prior customs fraud was used to untangle a scheme where importers paid bribes to avoid customs duties. According to the CICIG, the scam led all the way to Perez and his vice president, Roxana Baldetti.

TOP: 22 OCT 2015. GUATEMALA CITY, GUATEMALA. REUTERS/JOSE CABEZAS

BOTTOM: 24 OCT 2015. GUATEMALA. CITY, GUATEMALA. REUTERS/JORGE DAN LOPEZ

43 student teachers went missing from the southwestern Mexican city of Iguala in 2014 after clashing with local police. Their abduction caused an international uproar over human rights abuses in Mexico.

The government originally said the students were detained by corrupt local police, handed over to a drug gang, and incinerated in a rubbish dump before their ashes were thrown into a river.

But a panel of international experts rejected the notion that all the students' bodies were burned at the dump, saying the investigation was full of holes.

So far, the remains of only one of the missing students has been positively identified and the whereabouts of the rest remain a mystery.

TOP: 11 DEC 2014. EL PERICON, MEXICO. REUTERS/JORGE DAN LOPEZ

BOTTOM LEFT: 7 JAN 2015. CHILPANCINGO, MEXICO. REUTERS/JORGE DAN LOPEZ

BOTTOM RIGHT: 23 OCT 2013. CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO. REUTERS/JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ

More than 6 billion people live in countries where serious levels of public sector corruption are fuelling inequality and exploitation, according to Transparency International’s 2015 index of perceived public sector corruption.

The annual report measures perceptions of graft rather than actual levels due to the secrecy surrounding most corrupt dealings.

Two thirds of the 168 countries assessed were identified as having a serious corruption problem. Somalia, which has been mired in conflict since civil war broke out in 1991, ranked bottom of the list.

ABOVE: 4 MAR 2015. MOGADISHU, SOMALIA. REUTERS/FEISAL OMAR

Last year a record 1 million people made the Mediterranean Sea crossing, five times more than in 2014. During the year, the International Organization for Migration estimates that 805 died in the eastern Mediterranean and 2,892 died in the central Mediterranean.

Human brokers play the central role in many migrants' journeys. Like the thousands of Central Americans who pour into the United States, or the Rohingya Burmese who flood into Thailand and Malaysia, illegal travellers worldwide depend on an industry run by networks of individual criminal entrepreneurs.

Europol, Europe’s police agency, says people-smuggling may have generated between $3 billion and $6 billion last year. Most of the money for passage is raised and transferred by migrants’ and refugees’ relatives around the world.

TOP: 11 AUG 2015. KOS, GREECE. REUTERS/YANNIS BEHRAKIS

BOTTOM LEFT: 7 NOV 2015. LESBOS, GREECE. REUTERS/ALKIS KONSTANTINIDIS

BOTTOM RIGHT: 24 SEP 2014. LESBOS, GREECE. REUTERS/YANNIS BEHRAKIS

The horsemeat scandal broke in 2013 after genetic tests found traces of horsemeat in burgers sold at British and Irish supermarkets. Adulterated beef products were discovered across Europe, with suppliers in France and the Netherlands also found to have mislabelled horsemeat.

France found more cases of illegal horsemeat in beef products than any other country, results of official DNA tests showed, with more than 1 in every 8 samples testing positive.

TOP: 18 FEB 2013. SKARYSZEW, POLAND. REUTERS/PETER ANDREWS

BOTTOM: 20 FEB 2013. MARKET HARBOROUGH, UNITED KINGDOM. REUTERS/DARREN STAPLES

REQUIRES TEXT ABOUT INEQUALITY AND CORRUPTION

TOP LEFT: 8 JULY 2014. LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES. REUTERS/LUCY NICHOLSON

TOP RIGHT: 9 SEP 2011. MUMBAI, INDIA. REUTERS/VIVEK PRAKASH

BOTTOM LEFT: 22 DEC 2011. LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM. REUTERS/FINBARR O’REILLY

BOTTOM RIGHT: 28 MAY 2012. SHENZHEN, CHINA. REUTERS/BOBBY YIP

REQUIRES TEXT ABOUT CHURCH CORRUPTION

ABOVE: 29 MAY 2010. KNOCK, IRELAND. REUTERS/CATHAL MCNAUGHTON