Yesterday’s Anti-Corruption Summit did not excite the world. It did not even excite readers of this blog: traffic yesterday was at about normal levels and
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It’s time for Britannic Majesty to get a grip of the BVI
I have scoured the Anti-Corruption Summit documentation to see what the British Virgin Islands have committed to doing. The answer is nothing. Not a thing.
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Anti-corruption Summit fails miserably when it comes to professional firms
Some legal and accounting professional bodies issued a statement yesterday saying they were opposed to crime. It was the lowest common denominator statement they could
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The Anti-Corruption Summit says businesses need data – and then denies it to them
The Anti-Corruption Summit communique says: The corrupt should be denied the use of legitimate business channels to further illicit activity, and anyone who launders the
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The UK will fail the new standards set at Anti-Corruption Summit
The Anti-corruption Summit communique, just published, says: We will ensure accurate and timely basic and beneficial ownership information (including legal ownership information) is collected, available
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David Cameron’s Corruption Summit is destined to fail
David Cameron has an article in the Guardian today which, I think it safe to presume, indicates the likely outcomes from today’s Corruption Summit (which
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The professional bodies say they deplore criminal corruption – but turn a blind eye to the real abuse their members facilitate
It turned out that my question about what the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales was doing about the Corruption Summit was timely. They
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Where’s the Institute of Chartered Accountants on the Corruption Summit?
I have been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales for almost 34 years. You would not know it from much
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Are Nigeria and Afghanistan corrupt?
The Prime Minister has suggested Nigeria and Afghanistan are corrupt. And he’s right if you think that corruption is solely about those who abuse public
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