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Messi and the International Impunity System
The ongoing prosecution of football super star Lionel Messi for alleged tax evasion made global headlines last week. Messi and his father Jorge are accused of evading 4.2 million euros (US$5.6m) in...
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Money-laundering: too important to leave to the experts alone
Starting tomorrow a group of government officials and experts belonging to the world’s leading anti-money laundering organisation – the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – will be meeting in Paris....
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El lavado de dinero: un tema clave que no puede dejarse sólo a los expertos
A partir de mañana (Oct. 22) un grupo de representantes de gobiernos y expertos que pertenecen al Grupo de Acción Financiera (GAFI) – la Organización líder en materia de políticas contra el lavado de...
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The power of a question in El Salvador
Transparency laws mean nothing if they are not applied, and it sometimes takes brave citizens and active civil society organisations to make sure that they are. In El Salvador, the anti-corruption...
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Las leyes de transparencia sirven de poco si no son aplicadas en la práctica. A veces, son necesarias la insistencia y el coraje de ciudadanos y de organizaciones de sociedad civil para que esto...
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When transparency rules
What is the real power of “access to information”? Recently in El Salvador the authorities confirmed that citizens have the right to ask for information on the assets of public officials. What...
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Cuando la transparencia manda
¿Cuál es el verdadero poder del acceso a la información? Recientemente en el Salvador las autoridades confirmaron que la ciudadanía tiene derecho a pedir información sobre el patrimonio de los...
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The real reason banks aren’t stopping dirty money
Last week, Barclays bank was fined £72 million (US$110 million) by the UK authorities for failing to use anti-money laundering checks on a prominent customer, the bank’s seventh financial penalty in...
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Yes, there are legitimate uses of shell companies They still shouldn’t be secret
Thanks to an anonymous provider of data and the incredible work done by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), over the last days the world has gained an unprecedented peek...
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Stiglitz and Pieth Panama Papers report: a roadmap for global transparency in...
After resigning from Panama’s official effort to clean up its financial sector, Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and transparency expert Mark Pieth have come out with their own...
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