CILC is an independent international council devoted to the study of corruption and to fighting it: integrity in public procurement, transparency, accountability and legal cooperation between States.
The International Council for the Fight against Corruption brings together lawyers, researchers and public procurement specialists around a shared objective: to produce rigorous evidence and workable standards that reduce corruption in the management of public resources.
To analyse the concrete mechanisms of corruption and to propose legal and institutional responses that withstand technical scrutiny.
Corruption crosses borders. Our work is comparative and rests on the multilateral instruments in force, starting with UNCAC.
Independence, methodological rigour, transparency about our own sources and funding, and open publication.
Legal and documentary analysis, case studies and operational typologies by stage of the procurement cycle.
The leadership of the Council is answerable for its research programme, for the independence of its publications and for representing the organisation before institutions and international bodies.
Chairs the Council, directs its research programme and represents the organisation before public institutions, universities and international bodies. Author of Council studies on whistleblower protection and corruption mechanisms in public procurement.
dzianislimarau@cilclegal.org
Assists the Presidency and coordinates the Council's areas of work, its technical cooperation and the open-access publication of its studies.
ignatkrukovskiy@cilclegal.org
Expert in state and municipal public procurement. Advises the Presidency of the Council on that subject.
igorvyshegorodtsev@cilclegal.org
Manages the Council's projects and research: planning, coordination of the teams and follow-up of their delivery.
dariakolesnikova@cilclegal.org
Legal support and banking specialist
Background in banking. From 2015 to 2026 he worked at Sharova Law Firm in New York on legal support, document preparation and work with US government agencies and courts. Five years as a licensed process server in New York.
dzmitrynaskavets@cilclegal.org
Lawyer, public procurement specialist
Qualified lawyer specialising in central and local government procurement, with ten years of experience in public procurement in the United Kingdom.
annasmith@cilclegal.org
Economist and financial consultant
UN consultant (ILO, IMO, WIPO). Twenty years of teaching at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, chief financial officer of a technology company and certified instructor in accounting and foreign trade. Author of Scopus-indexed publications.
aleksandrbavrin@cilclegal.org
Lawyer, civil society leader and entrepreneur
More than a decade of documented experience in Kazakhstan in public-interest advocacy, legal analysis, civic oversight, administrative complaints and interaction with public authorities. His work focuses on institutional accountability, protection of citizens' rights, road-safety oversight, anti-corruption initiatives and support for victims of online fraud. Background in law, regional studies and public administration, with training in programming and digital-project development.
zhanbotanov@cilclegal.org
Lawyer and economist, public procurement specialist
Specialist in central and local government procurement and in monitoring corruption in it. More than five years of experience heading engineering companies.
konstantinoflian@cilclegal.orgEach area combines research, legal analysis and technical cooperation with public and academic institutions.
Risk diagnosis, typologies of conduct and evaluation of integrity policies.
Integrity across the purchasing cycle: planning, tendering, award and performance.
Access to information, open data and effective institutional control.
Protection frameworks, secure reporting channels and safeguards against retaliation.
Multilateral instruments, mutual legal assistance and asset recovery.
Methodology, typologies and comparative studies underpinning all the areas above.
Oversight authorities in Brazil, Korea, Chile, Colombia and the European Union have begun to apply large language models to the review of public procurement. The report inventories six confirmed systems and two announced projects: two are in operation and only one, Alice 360 of the Federal Court of Accounts of Brazil, has a published decision with results. The operating tools cover five of the 30 mechanisms of the Council's typology, and none checks bid evaluation, review, performance or payment. No authority publishes the share of well-founded alerts by function of the language model.
Dzianis Limarau, Ignat Krukovskiy · Report, 24 pages, EN · ES · RU · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23241236
Dzianis Limarau · Report, 21 pages, EN · ES · RU · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23142582
Dzianis Limarau · Report, 9 pages, EN · ES · RU · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22819817
Ignat Krukovskiy · Publication, 42 pages, EN · ES · RU · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22237028
Anonymised dataset of 427 procurement procedures challenged before and decided by the Federal Antimonopoly Service, across 68 regions, with all four outcomes, the initial contract price, the procurement method and generalised attributes of the contracting authority. It ships with the anonymisation and packaging scripts, so every table in the study can be reproduced without recourse to the primary register.
Ignat Krukovskiy · 427 records, CSV and JSON · CC BY 4.0 · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22236602
Orders 30 corruption mechanisms across ten stages of the procurement cycle and six functional clusters, and distinguishes them from observable risk indicators.
Dzianis Limarau · Report, 15 pages, English · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21939393
Introduces the category of the external reporter: the person who challenges restrictive tender requirements is almost always a market participant outside the contracting authority, and falls outside both the review channel and the whistleblower protection regimes.
Dzianis Limarau · Report, 8 pages, English · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21855670
The list reflects only work actually published by the Council. Every study is deposited with a DOI and released in open access with its full text and methodology.
Get notified of new publications →The Council maintains a monitoring register of public procurement procedures that underpins its empirical research. We invite companies and suppliers to contribute their data on tenders, restrictive requirements and challenges, and to access the aggregate results of the analysis. Participation is voluntary and data are handled in aggregated, anonymised form.
Software for monitoring public procurement procedures and detecting corruption risk indicators. Silver Hammer structures the data of a procedure, matches it against the typology of mechanisms published by the Council and flags the stages of the cycle where risk signals appear.
Published Work · Software, registered with the Dirección Nacional del Derecho de Autor (DNDA) of the Ministry of Justice of Argentina.
A Council report on language-model tools in Brazil, Korea, Chile, Colombia and the European Union: of six confirmed systems, two are in operation and only one has published results.
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The Council has registered in the European Commission's EU Funding & Tenders Portal and received Participant Identification Code (PIC) 861134864, required to take part in EU funding calls and tenders.
A comparison of Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia on eight parameters: the procedural rules coincide on six, while complaint review and entry in the register differ substantially.
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An application has been filed with Argentina's Dirección Nacional del Derecho de Autor (DNDA) to register the copyright in the «Metodología de análisis de las contrataciones públicas: proceso integral, Oráculo y monitoreo» (Public procurement analysis methodology: integrated process, Oracle and monitoring) by Ignat Krukovskiy and Dzianis Limarau. File EX-2026-96640522-APN-DNDA#MJ.
Of 28 applications filed with the second instance of the supervisory authority, not one was considered on the merits: 24 were returned and 4 received replies about internal deadlines.
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The Council submitted a proposal to cooperate in monitoring the Judicial Council's procurement procedures, within the action plan of the OECD review of its electronic procurement.
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A Council study of the share of the value of procedures carrying a risk signal that a review authority confirms as a violation before the contract is signed.
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427 challenged and decided procurement procedures, anonymised and released in CSV and JSON together with their anonymisation scripts, under a CC BY 4.0 licence.
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A Council report setting out a typology of 30 mechanisms by stage of the procurement cycle, with risk indicators.
Read the report →Public institutions, universities, international organisations and individual specialists may write to the Council with proposals for joint research, technical assistance or participation in the data exchange programme.
