🚨🐟🪝 Knowing who owns companies is important for many reasons.

Consider commercial fishing...

Open Ownership's latest briefing explains: 'illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing... generates c. $15-36bn p/a in illicit earnings, and has increased extinction threats...'

🔎Discover how corruption networks target destinations like London. Our #GI_ACE 2.0 project dives deep into this topic and many more, connecting research with real-world cases like this one. Find all of our ongoing projects on our website! tinyurl.com/5f8z9spf #anticorruption

Look fwd to this!
Great call today with 3 amazing PhD candidates in <political economy> of education who co-chair The Politics of Education Network (POLED)
Help build head of steam to break pol econ out of niche & into mainstream (education policy, funding) & unlock effectiveness & impact
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🗣️🎧Listen to the latest podcast of the Center for the Study of Corruption’s podcast Kickback 👉🏼👉🏼Prof. Prof Liz David-Barrett speaks to Tom Burgis about his work investigating corruption across different continents

I really enjoyed reading Tom Burgis’ latest book, and here’s a taster for those who haven’t read it yet!

The book covers party donations, bribery in int business, money and reputation laundering, and lawfare

We’re on to building the infrastructure for the future of investigative journalism. Welcome to the Cloud Alliance! gfmd.info/briefings/jour…

'The bribery of Western officials by authoritarian countries should be considered just as reprehensible as the bribery of public officials in developing countries by Western corporations.'
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A really insightful blog on how and why the concept of ‘strategic corruption’ has become a useful analytical framework- with thoughts on what needs to happen.

The UK is calling for a renewed effort towards global corporate transparency and putting a few million £ towards implementation

But implementation often stops at 'a beneficial ownership registry exists'

Effective transparency needs testing, enforcement
gov.uk/government/new…

Tomorrow, I will be at the Ministry of Justice talking about lawfare against research on kleptocracy & then in Parliament for the launch of the cross-party APPG on Anti-Corruption & Responsible Tax economic crime manifesto.

You can’t fight kleptocracy if you can’t research it.

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‘Close links between parliamentarians & the #vaping industry are concerning especially when Government is considering reforming its policies on smoking’ Rose Whiffen Transparency International UK #Lobbying #UKPolitics inews.co.uk/news/mps-pro-v…

Our Anti-Corruption & Governance Center @ CIPE takeaways from a pretty energizing & decisive #GACIF forum OECD Governance - building on the momentum at #COSP10 w/ more to come.

cipe.org/blog/2024/04/1…

Frank Brown Isabel Cane Business at OECD (BIAC) The B Team World Economic Forum Collective Action at the Basel Institute UN Office on Drugs & Crime UN Global Compact

Excited to have the hard copy of this great book by David Jancsics arrive..!

I meant every word of my blurb on the back…

🚨BREAKING: Middleman in corrupt UK-Saudi arms deal Jeffrey Cook is handed a sentence of 30 months’ imprisonment and confiscation of £123k after being convicted of misconduct in public office for kickbacks he received while employed by Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧:
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#Breaking Former Ministry of Defence official, Jeffrey Cook, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and ordered to pay a £123,000 confiscation order after the Serious Fraud Office secured his conviction for misconduct in public office.

OMG - the pressure is really on now...

I am delighted to have made it to the shortlist of the Profile Books Ideas Prize!

There is great political momentum towards countering the scourge of “lawfare” waged by the rich and powerful against legitimate scrutiny, like when oligarchs went after Catherine Belton. But a new draft law lacks crucial elements. (2/3)

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“The truth is the English civil law is a luxury good that is far beyond the means of most citizens of this country.” A perceptive The Spectator review by Nick Cohen of my new book Cuckooland, “a rip-roaring account of the overweening power of money”. (1/3)

spectator.co.uk/article/englis…

This is terribly sad. Gretta was a wonderfully warm, kind and thoughtful person as well as an inspiring leader in our field, absolutely dedicated and brilliant. She will be greatly missed. Our thoughts at Centre for the Study of Corruption are with her family and loved ones.

Amazing data collection effort!