Ian Fraser: Just How Corrupt is The UK?
Never mind the “fantastically corrupt” Afghanistan and Nigeria. What about the UK?
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#panamapapers: Questioning the Picture Painted in the WSJ’s Interview With Jürgen Mossack
A sceptical look at Jürgen Mossack’s WSJ interview
Read more...#panamapapers – Why Critic Craig Murray Needs the Scorecard Before He Can Name The Players
Craig Murray keeps jumping the gun with his panamapapers pieces
Read more...New Zealand’s FMA, the Breder Suasso Conundrum, Mossack Fonseca, and #panamapapers
A quick look at Breder Suasso, a New Zealand FSP with historic links to disreputable Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts and the Unaoil Scandal: More Chickens Coming Home to Roost, and They’re Big
First a political fracas in Malta, now a giant international bribery scandal: New Zealand Foreign Trusts cover themselves in more glory
Read more...Mossack Fonseca: The New Zealand Connection
A little sniff at the New Zealand operations of notorious Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca
Read more...New Zealand Foreign Trusts: Chickens Coming Home to Roost
After many warnings were ignored, New Zealand Foreign Trusts are now damaging NZ’s reputation overseas
Read more...HSBC’s Money Laundering Nightmare (2): Mossack Fonseca, a Year in Words and Pictures, March 2015-March 2016
Mossack Fonseca and its trail of street protests: they are in it up to their thighs, and HSBC’s Stuart Gulliver has “no idea”.
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (III): LLPs, Secrecy Jurisdictions, PSCs, and a Forthcoming Fiasco
Why the UK’s latest anti money laundering measures don’t look very convincing
Read more...Anyone Want to Buy Deutsche Bank?
Some more reasons why Deutsche Bank looks like one to avoid
Read more...The North Korean Connections of US Billionaire Naguib Sawiris and US Defence Company Contrack Watts
US Billionaire Naguib Sawiris and his Contrack Watts, a major US defence contractor, turn out to have ties to North Korea, via an amazingly profitable mobile phone company
Read more...Oxford City Football Club and its Onanistic Owner, Thomas Guerriero
Let’s start our latest illustration of how easily a reckless, internationally mobile crook can sidestep national regulators, with a helpful observation by Bess Levin at Dealbreaker in May 2010: Let it be known: if you are not interested in having your supervisor (circle all that apply:) send you videos of himself masturbating, texts about the […]
Read more...The GXG Markets Fallout (II): Editwars and FOIA fights
GXG Markets is gone but the dirty dealings continue
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (II): HM Treasury Weighs in (and so Does Russia, With a $46Bn Money Laundering Allegation)
Even HM Treasury thinks the UK’s anti money laundering framework is a mess
Read more...The UK’s Money Laundering Mess (I)
The Billion Dollar Moldova Bank Scam: gateway to the UK’s money laundering mess
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