This webinar will launch the new research paper Shadow Economies: The Rise of Illicit Networks and Alternative Markets in Sanctions Circumvention. The study examines how illicit financial flows linked to sanctions evasion have surged across the Western Balkans and Black Sea region, doubling to more than $31 billion in 2023. It shows that European companies…
This seminar examines real estate-linked money laundering in the Global South, focusing on Brazil, Kenya, and Indonesia, revealing how rapid urbanization, particularly in touristic destinations, has enabled different actors to exploit weak enforcement systems. The research documents severe consequences, including distorted housing markets, while demonstrating that current international AML framework for the real estate sector fails in emerging markets.
A roundtable exploring how consultancies, legal firms, and intermediaries enable cross-border illicit influence, featuring leading GI ACE scholars and partners.
This seminar brings together David Szakonyi and Tom Mayne, chaired by Liz Dávid-Barrett, to examine how leaked and sensitive datasets - often originating from media organisations - can support research into corruption and illicit finance. Drawing on GI ACE projects using leaked banking data from the DRC and mapping enabler networks, the seminar discusses both the opportunities and challenges of working with such materials. Delivered in collaboration with the Illicit Finance Data Lab (ACDC & OCCRP).
This seminar explores how researchers can overcome the practical and technical obstacles that make it difficult to access, clean, and use diverse datasets on illicit finance, corruption, and organised crime.
Eric Umar and Dina Balabanova present the most recent findings from their GI ACE project 'Addressing corruption in the crisis response of the Malawian health system'.