30th July 2020
Illicit Finance: Arrest in Kenya as Experts Demand Action on ‘Enablers’
Another week, another set of extraordinary developments relating to illicit finance flows (IFFs). Following the UK Parliament’s publication of the ‘Russia Report’ into suspected meddling by Moscow in UK affairs…
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21st July 2020
Londongrad Calling: Is Europe’s Laundromat the ‘New Normal’?
Headlines covering today’s report by the UK’s Intelligence and Security Committee will be dominated by political rows over whether Russia influenced the outcome of the controversial 2016 Brexit vote. At…
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19th July 2020
Corruption: World Bank study links aid to tax haven deposits
Last week’s blog about how corruption in many states has got worse over the past twenty years stirred a surprisingly passionate response from Washington DC to Johannesburg. It was a…
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15th July 2020
Corruption: shock study shows little progress over twenty years
The curse of corruption has lived long and, fresh evidence suggests, the world is not making a great fist of tackling it. In 2004, I reported on a World Bank…
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10th July 2020
Illicit Finance: tackling it will matter more after COVID
One of the critical issues I intend to write about through this blog is the scourge of money laundering and the extraordinarily corrosive effect it, and related activity, has on…
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9th July 2020
New beginnings
Welcome to my professional website and blog! Let’s get the boring introductory blog out of the way… I’ve been a professional journalist and writer since 1997. For the first ten…
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