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From The Luxembourg Times: Luxembourg authorities collected more than €50 million in additional tax revenue immediately following ICIJ's publication of the #PanamaPapers, Finance Minister Gilles Roth said in response to a parliamentary question last week.
International Lawyers Project are hiring an anti-corruption specialist www.internationallawyersproject.org/career-oppor...
Deadline EOD Wednesday 28 May 2025
Interviews week of 5 June 2025
I see we're back to credulously reporting the "millionaire migration" claims of a company that sells migration services to millionaires.
I have contacted the people behind these studies and they wouldn't tell me the underlying numbers. Only HMRC actually knows how many millionaires have moved.
UK lawyers need to be effective gate keepers against dirty money that comes into the UK. But is the current anti-money laundering framework working to make sure they do? Our latest report showing that despite some promising signs, ambitious reform is needed to move the dial.
Incredible opportunity here to work with the brilliant @aj16.bsky.social at the Joffe Trust, tackling illicit finance (Programme Director). Absolutely essential work in these dangerous times. joffetrust.org/join-our-tea...
If they are to remain credible, the FATF and European institutions need to begin treating the US as a high-risk jurisdiction
A lot here that applies in the UK too, on tackling Trump by fighting dirty money.
Headline take aways:
1. There’s a huge amount of brilliant and thoughtful work going on. Very inspiring & hopeful.
2. Different fields need to tackle this question themselves.
3. Funders should step up.
4. We're not acting together with the scale & urgency the times demand - yet.
How's UK civil society responding to Trumpworld & the rise of the far right?
I asked LinkedIn's hive mind & this is what I heard, so far.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-uk...
Brilliant deep dive into Bangladeshi politician's multi-$100m's property empire inc 315 UK properties.
'Yunus has described the alleged looting of banks by elites as “highway robbery”, and said the money “has to be brought back”.' @ukanticorruptioncoalition.org
on.ft.com/3F02YBW
Such important analysis:
35% of voters feel economically insecure & are looking for political alternatives
Surely this is the political challenge of our times, to fight populism?
And this is a fundemental dividing line with Trump
Kevin Roberts, President of Heritage Foundation, architect of Project2025. 12 Feb 2025:
"The woke, international, progressive elite is fundamentally a hate group. They hate the US. They hate democracy .. Christianity .. Judaism .."
Jawdropping.
x.com/KevinRoberts...
"The US was on the verge of major anti-corruption reform. Then Trump took office."
from Casey Michel
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
.@OliverBullough 's opinion piece urges the U.K. to “step up where the U.S. is stepping back” in fighting corruption, including funding networks like OCCRP that do “indispensable journalistic work"
⭐ EXCITING OPPORTUNITY to join our small friendly team at @spotlightcorruption.org!
We're looking for someone to lead our work on defending UK democracy – pushing for reforms to:
👉 enhance public trust in govt &
👉 prevent foreign interference in UK politics.
📆 Deadline: Sunday 16 March
#CharityJob
Just endured every excruciating minute of this. With Trump sitting there, the kid wandering around, Musk gives a crash course in his theory of democracy that would embarrass a semi-literate stoner. These are fools in charge. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAuT...
Musk tweet to Larry Summers
Just to keep up with what Musk is saying
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I'm hearing a lot from the media NGO sector about the impact of USAID cuts. A lot of small investigative media organisations across the globe are facing imminent closure as the funding they've budget for has vanished overnight, and the funder community has no capacity to absorb the shock.
Despite repeated promises from the British Virgin Islands to tackle corrosive corporate secrecy its latest proposals look like a smokescreen for continued secrecy.
@transparencyuk.bsky.social’s @margotmollat.bsky.social explains…
www.transparency.org.uk/news/smokesc...
#AntiCorruption #DirtyMoney
In the old days (when I still used twitter), I had a weekly newsletter called Oligarchy, in which I looked at what was happening in the world of financial skulduggery. I took a break to write a book, but it's back this week!
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After Tulip Siddiq's resignation, Emma Reynolds becomes Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
Torsten Bell is promoted to joint junior minister at Treasury and DWP.
Tulip Siddiq resigns as City minister. In letter to PM Siddiq said that while she had "not breached the ministerial code", it is clear that continuing as a Treasury minister would be "a distraction from the work of the govt” PM tells her ‘door always open for a return’
news.sky.com/story/pressu...
BREAKING: Tulip Siddiq has resigned as a Treasury minister
In a letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the Labour MP said that while she had "not breached the ministerial code", it is clear that continuing in her post would be "a distraction from the work of the government"