Max Hastings, a former editor of the Daily Telegraph wrote a thoughtful piece on corruption for the Guardian earlier this week. I recommend it. I
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Luxembourg and the FATF: Profoundly unethical conduct
Jerome Turquey has an astonishing entry on his blog. As he notes, page 20 of the FATF Annual Report for 2006 – 07 says: Thanks
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What I’d like for Christmas: that Channel Island’s bankers understand their money laundering laws
Two people claiming to be Channel Island’s financial services operators have been making extensive comments on two blogs on this site. Despite the claims of
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Why argue as I do?
I have been subject to some fairly predictable verbal assaults from some in the financial services industry over the last few days, especially but not
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Defining corruption
I was in Oslo this week for a conference on Illicit Financial Flows. There is little I can report – the event took place under
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286 in the USA – and a tax fraudster
Accountancy Age reports: A billionaire – ranked 286th in Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans – accused of hiding millions in foreign bank accounts,
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Switzerland: $600 billion of tax evaded cash
Marty Sullivan at Tax Analysts is continuing his series on tax evaded cash in the world’s tax havens. This time he has considered Switzerland. His
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All’s not well offshore
I seem to have touched a raw nerve in Jersey and Guernsey with a recent blog (There are lies, d***ed lies and some in the
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Conrad Black gets 6 years
Quite right to. And this is worth remembering: At Chicago’s federal court, Judge Amy St Eve told the former owner of the Daily Telegraph: “No
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