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Published in: Live discussionsAre dark-money think tanks bad for British democracy?Conservative think tanks have the ear of government. Their ideas often become official policy. But who funds them?...
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Published in: democraciaAbierta: OpinionHow can the deadly violence against Mexican journalists be stopped?Between cartels and corrupt politicians, the country is among the most dangerous to be a journalist. Eight have been...
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Published in: Home: NewsUK anti-corruption laws aid kleptocrat regimes like Putin’s, report saysGovernment-funded experts claim legislation to seize UK property bought with dirty money may do more harm than good
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionHow the UK helps the world’s kleptocrats and crooks – deliberately‘Financial skulduggery isn’t just something that happens in the UK; there has been a concerted and decades-long...
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Published in: Live discussionsThe UK serves the world’s corrupt elite – can Britain break its dirty money addiction?Is the government prepared to put sanctions that really bite on the tycoons, tax dodgers, kleptocrats and crooks who...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionThis is what’s missing from the UK’s new anti-kleptocrat billSusan Hawley from Spotlight on Corruption walks us through the new Economic Crime Bill – and explains why it might...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsLondon is a ‘magnet for dirty money’, says UK government’s anti-corruption tsarThe Conservative MP writes today on openDemocracy that urgent action is needed to stop ‘growing’ levels of fraud
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionCorruption has become more sophisticated – our laws need to catch upDelay to Economic Crime Bill should concern anyone who cares about stopping kleptocrats, oligarchs and organised...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: NewsUK may ditch plans to stop fraudsters using fake names to run businessesJesus Christ, Donald Duck and ‘Adolf Tooth Fairy Hitler’ have all been directors of UK firms, according to Companies House
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionIf Tory whips are blackmailing MPs, that’s corruption. We should call it thatSenior Conservative William Wragg accused whips of threatening to withdraw funds from the constituencies of MPs who...
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Published in: oDR: NewsOligarchs and officials from corrupt states own £2bn of UK luxury propertyTory donor Lubov Chernukhin among those named in new report criticising Britain’s weak regulation and homegrown...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionBoris Johnson’s plans won’t stop government sleazeBanning MPs from working as political consultants fails to answer the question at the heart of the scandal: is being...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionBritish politics is an oligarchs’ cocktail party. Tory ministers are the waitersThe recent onslaught of government sleaze shows once again why the UK has been called ‘the most corrupt country in the world’
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMet Police silent despite calls to investigate Tory ‘cash for peers’ scandalOpposition MPs demand police inquiry after openDemocracy revealed Conservative treasurers who donate £3m seem almost...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: NewsMPs net £6m from second jobs since pandemic beganExclusive: Opposition MPs call for ban on ‘moonlighting’ as it’s revealed an ex-PM and a cabinet minister are among...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionJohnson’s UK, Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Orbán’s Hungary: peas in a state-captured podState capture happens when narrow interest groups take control of public policy, buying influence to rewrite the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionNo second jobs for MPs, declare all lobbying: how Labour can fight corruptionThe people should be sovereign – but it is the power of wealth that is steering the UK’s course. A few simple but...
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionI told the UK Parliament how to fix corruption… nobody listenedThe Owen Paterson scandal doesn’t surprise me; MPs shouldn’t be trusted. That’s why Westminster is plagued with scandals
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia: OpinionWhy I’ve been dreading the anniversary of the Beirut port explosionSince the explosion, Lebanon has slowly transformed into a living hell for so many
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Published in: Dark Money Investigations: OpinionWe must have transparency in political funding – here’s why
Closing one loophole would stop the world’s oligarchs, billionaires and criminals from secretly buying influence on...
Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
