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August 19, 2011

By Dan Hennessey

Daniel Hennessey, an international affairs and geography major at the George Washington University, is an outreach and communications intern at Global Financial Integrity in Washington, DC.

The world of dirty money (part 1)
Corporations, crime, corruption, and capital flight (part 2)
TNCs, transfer pricing, and tax avoidance (part 3)
Fighting illicit capital flight (part 4)
Pambazuka News, August 18, 2011

365 days of freedom
Deccan Chronicle, August 19, 2011

US warns about Argentina’s ‘lack of progress’ in fighting money laundering activities
Buenos Aires Herald, August 19, 2011

Long Island Man Pleads Guilty To Running A Hawala
Wall Street Journal, August 18, 2011

France spurns Swiss offer to tax stashed assets
Reuters, August 19, 2011

DSI targets tobacco giant in tax evasion row
Bangkok Post, August 18, 2011

Despite Anna, bribes flow
The Times of India, August 19, 2011

Nine opposition parties to hold protests on Aug. 23 on corruption
PTI, August 19, 2011

China to review commercial prepaid cards
China Daily, August 19, 2011

I. Coast’s Gbagbo, wife charged with economic crimes
Reuters, August 18, 2011


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