The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative conference is being held this week. As the FT reports with regard to yesterday’s proceedings: Greater transparency requirements laid down
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The UK’s frozen Gadaffi’s assets tonight. But first, apparently we know he has them. Second, why now? How come no one has suspected they might
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It’s oft repeated here by friends of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions that the world I describe and the world Nick Shaxson describes is out
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Larry Elliott has a good article under the title “The new scramble for Africa must have the courage to curb corruption” this morning. It does,
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If, as now seems to be the case, it is recognised that Mubarak and his friends stashed their money illegally in London are those who
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As governments around the world freeze the assets of former dictators, campaigners and governments from the Task Force on Financial Integrity and Economic Development (Task
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One has to give credit where it is due, and as TJN has noted, a Swiss government web page gives the actual names of those
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There is enormous interest in where Mubarak’s cash might be hidden. I know that I and other members of the Task Force on Financial Integrity
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The good news for Egypt is Mubarak has gone. The hope is the transition to a democracy will be smooth. The question is, where’s Mubarak’s
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