This letter was in the Guardian this morning: The Guardian’s investigation into offshore secrecy highlights a significant problem that is global in its impact. Developing
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As the Guardian notes this morning, the British Virgin Islands are a land of sand, sea and secrecy. That’s because the microstate is now the world’s biggest
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Offshore corruption exists. The veil of secrecy that it provides – that lead to me describing these places as secrecy jurisdictions – is designed to hide abuse, whether of
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I thought the astonishing average £248,780 cost of each tax avoidance case identified as outstanding at H M Revenue & Customs by the National Audit Office should be benchmarked for
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This is from this morning’s FT headlines email: Alleged fraud, convicted fraud and  suspected fraud. Business as normal in the world of finance then.

As the FT reports tonight: Senior Conservatives are plotting an audacious “cash-for-seats” offer to Nick Clegg, where the Liberal Democrat leader would back a Conservative-friendly
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The American Petroleum Institute – representing all the major US oil companies – has launched a law suit against the SEC in the USA to block the
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As Thomson Reuters have reported today: As the District Attorney of New York County, my office, time and time again, finds its criminal investigations thwarted
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I’m delighted to see this report in the Guardian: Legislation that would have ensured that the City traders behind the Libor interest rates scandal did
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