Kathmandu Declaration on Curbing Illicit Financial Flows: Restoring Justice for Human Rights Financial Transparency Coalition
Venezuelan president implicated in US investigation of €160 million laundered through Malta The Malta Independent
Daphne Caruana Galizia: family of murdered Maltese journalist demand public inquiry into her death The Independent (UK)
Daphne’s murder was ‘a warning to others’ – Dutch MEP Times of Malta
Swiss can give bank client data to India in tax dodge case – court Reuters
Why the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base is much more than a cryptic acronym The Greens | European Free Alliance
Ireland in crosshairs in debate on tax and multinationals The Irish Times
Rick Gates Delivers a Public Lesson on Money Laundering and Political Corruption. The New Yorker
Britain’s richest person to leave UK for tax-free Monaco The Guardian
Where the Super-Rich Go to Buy Their Second Passport Bloomberg
“Golden visas”: EU confronts member states issuing citizenship for money Deutsche Welle
How to return one billion dollars stolen from the people of Uzbekistan openDemocracy
China widens net to nab celebrity tax dodges and money laundering South China Morning Post
Goldman Trader Claims Kafkaesque Firing Over `Notorious’ Client Bloomberg
‘… claims in a lawsuit that the bank retaliated against him for blowing the whistle on its failure to comply with anti-money-laundering policies.’
The Swiss fascination with all things crypto PitchBook
‘… at its core, “Swiss Banking” is about wealth preservation … one of the major appeals has always been the safekeeping of clients’ assets and ideally avoiding too much transparency and public limelight. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies enable these custody solutions’
Inside the New “Fortress” in New York City That’s Housing Millions of Dollars of Art Artsy
See also, (from 2017), The Role of Freeports in the Global Art Market Artsy: ‘In the era of offshore expansion in the late twentieth century, tax loopholes and secrecy domains acquired a much greater significance in the global economy, and for art, the freeport became the physical equivalent of a Swiss bank account.’
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