AUSTRALIA is the "least corrupt country in the world" and we are needed to help create an international crime-fighting force to hunt tax evaders, money launderers, sporting match fixers and terror funders. 
The Sunday Telegraph has learned other nations, including the UK, specifically asked for Australian law enforcement to help create the unprecedented body, privately citing the country as being the "least corrupt in the world" and capable of forming the foundations of the new global anti-corruption fighting group.
The body, to be announced in London this week at an anti-corruption summit to be chaired by British Prime Minister David Cameron, will sign up at least 40 countries to the initiative but also major sporting bodies -including FIFA, international athletic and Olympic groups and cycling institutions.
The move comes in the wake of scandals in sport such as -systemic performance enhancing drug doping programs, -entrenched match fixing and revelations like the Panama -Papers - the 11.5 million documents leaked last month that -revealed widespread tax avoidance by hundreds of companies and also world leaders.
The federal government was approached by Number 10 to not just "embed" a senior AFP officer, currently seconded to the UK's National Crime Agency, in the running of the body but also help set up the new centre.Justice Minister Michael Keenan is to be in London for the -announcement which is seen as an honour for Australia. "We have a robust approach to dealing with corruption. Our agencies are pursuing corruption here and beyond our borders," he said.