Steve Goodrich
@SteveJGoodrich
Leads research and investigations @TransparencyUK into corruption and money laundering. Formerly senior policy adviser @ElectoralCommUK. Views my own.
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11-05-2015 12:32:53
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Peter Munro and Stevie Wolfe from the UK Anti-Corruption Coalition said: “The UK has long claimed to support a ‘rules-based system’. This case is an opportunity – more than that, an obligation – to show we mean it.”
express.co.uk/news/uk/189338…
So in this The Guardian reports Jeremy Clarkson lobbied Michael Gove over planning permission re: his farm theguardian.com/media/2024/apr… going over the head of the local authority. Think this could be the meeting he references: openaccess.transparency.org.uk/?meeting=87093 #Transparency FAIL from UK Gov.
🚨 A new investigation by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's @ozodlik into how Uzbek political insiders rake in millions from the shadows of the lucrative gas market. This time, an obscure company linked to associates of the president's son-in-law: rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-g…
A🧵on how it came together.
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.Ben Cowdock from Transparency International UK said the U.K.’s moves after ICIJ’s reporting on an Igor Komarov-linked property were a reminder of the importance 'of journalists ... in helping to identify previously unknown assets belonging to Putin’s cronies.”
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Yes, delighted Scottish Government are going to take my Anti-SLAPP petition forward. Kieran Andrews Simon Barrow David Leask Richard Smith Michelle Thomson Ian Fraser
🕵️♂️ Did you know that our Open Access tool makes submitting FOI requests on ministerial meetings easy?
For any published meeting that ministers have had since 2012, you can use our FOI request templates through WhatDoTheyKnow.
Try it out here ⤵️ openaccess.transparency.org.uk
Calls for inquiry into Saudi arms #corruption scandal from Peter Hain. Steve Goodrich: ‘We need greater assurance that the UK state does not condone these corrupt practices under the guise of national security’ Transparency International UK #AntiCorruption #UKPolitics theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…
A huge pleasure to see so many tireless campaigners from parliament, civil society and industry at the launch of our new Economic Crime Manifesto with APPG on Fair Business Banking.
Together we can drive dirty money out of the UK economy.
Read the manifesto here👉economiccrimemanifesto2024.co.uk
I’m delighted to be on the shortlist for the European Press Prize this year, for my work with Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project and crew on the #RotenbergFiles
europeanpressprize.com/shortlists/yea…