Searching for owners: What we found when we cross-analysed company and real estate ownership data in France
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Our new report uncovers significant loopholes through which criminals can still launder and invest their money in French real estate.
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Trust issues: 9 fixes to the global standard on beneficial ownership transparency
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As worldwide scrutiny over anonymous companies intensifies, reforming the global standard on trust ownership is critical for deterring cross-border corruption.
Countering Russia's kleptocrats: What the West’s response to the assault on Ukraine should look like
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Kleptocracy in Russia has thrived thanks to the complicity of advanced economies, who are now waking up to its dangers.
Pandora Papers: 10 countries that urgently need to act
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Investigations implicate high-level public officials and private sector intermediaries around the world.
Panama: Corporate service providers still guarding anonymous companies
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Five years after the Panama Papers shook the world, corporate service providers are still shielding anonymous companies in Panama and the government is dragging its feet on…
Out in the open: How public beneficial ownership registers advance anti-corruption
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Public registers of beneficial ownership were unthinkable a decade ago, but impact to date makes a strong case for global adoption.
What the global standard on company ownership should look like: Five key fixes
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After years of powerful resistance, FATF members are now finally open to suggestions on the ways to revise of the global standard on beneficial ownership transparency.
Not so open Lux: Authorities in the dark over Luxembourg private investment fund beneficiaries
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Despite Luxembourg’s steps to shine a light on corporate ownership, the country's investment funds largely operate in an opaque manner.
Clearing the smokescreen: The deadly consequences of undue influence
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New investigations reveal back-room deals and secretive campaigns involving the tobacco industry are far from being a thing of the past.
Protecting Africa’s wildlife from corruption
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When they deliberate over amendments to the global wildlife trade regime, CoP18 must address impunity for illegal timber trafficking in Africa as a matter of high priority.
Three years after the Panama Papers: progress on horizon
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The explosive Pulitzer Prize-winning global media project known as the "Panama Papers" turned three years old, and there are many reasons to celebrate.
Troika Laundromat signals a different kind of financial crisis
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The Troika Laundromat investigation shines a spotlight on a cast of new and familiar characters in the ongoing saga surrounding flows of dirty money through the world’s financial…
