WASHINGTON – A recent spate of legal cases offers a preview of how anticorruption officials could pursue ill-gotten assets of toppled leaders in places like Egypt and Tunisia: Increasingly, prosecutors are going after not only corrupt politicians, but the lawyers and other professionals who may have helped them move cash.
Recent cases in the U.S. and Europe show that while such advisers often haven’t faced legal troubles in the past, they are more and more finding themselves ensnared in prosecutions.
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Explaining the 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index from Transparency International
In this video, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime follows individual Euro bills as they are used illicitly, ultimately showing the annual $870 billion proceeds from criminal networks. The filmed transactions highlight profits by counterfeiting, illicit drug trafficking, human trafficking, and trading illegal arms. The UNODC also captures the impact of this underground economy on human peace and security.
Attiyah Waris, Tax Law Professor at Nairobi University, argues that tax evasion strategies used by ...
WASHINGTON, DC / LONDON – A bipartisan Congressional report published Thursday by the U.S. Senate ...
May 20, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC – Global Financial Integrity (GFI) lauded former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the ...
May 10, 2013
WASHINGTON, DC / LONDON – In a major victory for transparency advocates, British Prime Minister ...
April 25, 2013
Do you care about stamping out corruption, money laundering and tax dodging? The Financial Transparency ...
May 21, 2013
The solutions to problems are often implicit in the way they are framed. If I ...
May 15, 2013
Below the jump: a fantastic infographic on how money is hidden by large U.S. corporations ...
May 13, 2013
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