Illicit financial flows have surged in the Western Balkans and the Black Sea region following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This increase is closely linked to the re-export of dual-use goods from the EU to Russia through established smuggling routes…

To assess the effectiveness of international efforts to combat illicit financial flows (IFFs), we need a map of how and when specific reforms have been implemented in key jurisdictions around the world over the past few decades.

This publication focuses on groundbreaking research revealing significant shifts in the pattern of global illicit financial flows (IFFs). The study, led by Dr. Daniel Haberly, reveals how and where different types of illicit money flows around the world.

Governments are usually the largest purchaser of goods and services in an economy, which creates significant opportunities for corruption. We study whether training procurement officials in fifty Ugandan districts to publish procurement actions in an online public portal, as is…

Unexplained Wealth Orders, introduced in the United Kingdom in 2017, were designed to tackle the problem of transnational kleptocracy. However, our research on real estate purchases in the UK by elites from post-Soviet kleptocracies dem-onstrates that incumbent elites are invulnerable…

This paper summarises research exploring patterns of global shell company formation and regulations governing offshore financial secrecy. The research uses big data analytics both to examine existing assumptions held by campaigners, practitioners and policy-makers, and to provide an evidence base…