In the late 1990's, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and its inspector general's office, the agency's corruption watchdog, were going to war against each other.

The criticism was backed up by former Queensland attorney-general Paul Clauson, who helped establish the corruption watchdog in the late 1980s, and who likened the organisation to the Stasi.

Transparency International, the worldwide corruption watchdog, said in its latest report that Russia was now following the path of countries like Nigeria, Azerbaijan and Libya - rich in oil but soaked by graft.

After being rehabilitated again, he built up a sound reputation as a reformer and a corruption watchdog.

In April 2006, London-based corruption watchdog Global Witness published a report focusing on RosUkrEnergo and other transit companies that have acted as intermediaries between Turkmenistan, Russia and Ukraine.

On 7 June 2012 Paluzzano pleaded guilty to four charges relating to falsely claiming parliamentary payments between 2006 and 2007, as well as giving misleading evidence to the corruption watchdog in a 2010 inquiry.

The Center for Public Integrity has compiled a state by state account of governmental political corruption watchdogs, many with roots in the post-Watergate era.

It is rated the least corrupt country in Africa, according to an international corruption watchdog, Transparency International.

The corruption watchdog Transparency International has put Equatorial Guinea in the top 12 of its list of most corrupt states.

Mr. Anemone further claimed that the inspector general - the agency's corruption watchdog - had actually impeded investigations he was conducting.