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    • Research themes
      • Global finance and the enablers of corruption
        • Corruption in Paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South
        • Identifying Enabler Networks and Their Vulnerabilities
        • Anti-Money Laundering & Banking/Reputation
        • Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians: The Contested Interpretation of Lawyers as Facilitators of Kleptocracy and Grand Corruption
        • Does transparency bring cleanliness? Offshore financial secrecy reform and corruption control
        • Beneficial Ownership – Nigeria
      • Crisis responses and corruption in vunerable sectors
        • Addressing Corruption in the Crisis Response of the Malawian Health System
        • ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
        • Political Connections in Public Procurement During Crises
      • Corruption risks in global trade and commerce
        • Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
        • Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
        • International Deal-Making
        • Regulating Cross-Border Trading – East Africa
      • State capture
        • Building Resilience to State Capture
        • Engaging the Public to Fight State Capture
        • Illicit Financial Flows as Enablers and Drivers of State Capture
      • Sectors and Institutions
        • Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi
        • Social Norms & Behaviors & Health – Tanzania
        • Preventing Medical Theft – Malawi
        • Curbing corruption in procurement
      • Integrity systems
        • Cities of Integrity: Zambia and South Africa
        • Advancing Integrity – Uganda
        • Harnessing Informality – East & Central Africa & Kyrgyzstan
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Category Archives: Harvey

Crosspost: Beneficial ownership transparency and the fight against grand corruption in Nigeria

HarveyBy GI ACE04/03/2022Leave a comment

This is a crosspost from OpenOwnership, in response to Jackie Harvey’s research on beneficial ownership policy and legislation in Nigeria.   Beneficial ownership transparency and the fight against grand corruption…

Can Knowledge of Beneficial Ownership Assist in the Prevention of Laundering the Proceeds of Corruption?

HarveyBy GI ACE19/01/2022Leave a comment

Identification and disclosure of beneficial ownership (BO) has been viewed as the ‘silver bullet’ for the international community in its Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Corruption (AML/ACL) efforts. The intergovernmental body, Financial…

Are Promised Changes to Nigeria’s Anti-corruption Architecture Built On Sand?

Harvey, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE28/09/2020Leave a comment

GI ACE researcher Jackie Harvey discusses commitments that appeared to address two recent criticisms made of Nigeria’s anti-corruption regime – overlapping mandates and lack of inter-agency cooperation – that had been identified by various authors in recent years

Making records open does not always make them useful

Harvey, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE06/05/2020Leave a comment

GI ACE researcher Jackie Harvey discusses the issue of increasing the transparency of beneficial ownership, with Nigeria as a prime example.

penguin with rolls of Nigerian currency

Statistical challenges and ‘cash for penguins’

Harvey, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE20/11/20191 Comment

GI-ACE project on beneficial ownership and corruption in Nigeria investigating financial data to try to locate something that is not apparently observable—laundering the proceeds of corruption through disguising the beneficial owner—by removing from the picture what might be explained legitimately.

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Hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption

Harvey, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy GI ACE20/06/2019Leave a comment

Researcher Jackie Harvey discusses GI-ACE project nvestigating how the current international anti-corruption frameworks function within Nigeria and how they can be better targeted to reduce opportunities for the proceeds of corruption to be moved across the globe while the beneficial owner remains hidden.

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