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Governance & Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence
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    • GI ACE Phase 1Phase one of research (2018-2022)
      • Anti-Money Laundering & Banking/Reputation
      • International Deal-Making
      • Offshore Financial Secrecy Reform
      • Procurement & Red Flags
      • Using the Red Flags Tool to Curb Corruption in Procurement
      • Regulating Cross-border trading – East Africa
      • Social Norms & Behaviors & Health – Tanzania
      • Cities of Integrity: Zambia and South Africa
      • Beneficial Ownership – Nigeria
      • Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi
      • Preventing Medical Theft – Malawi
      • Advancing Integrity – Uganda
      • Integrity & Civil Servants – Nepal & Bangladesh
      • Leveraging Social Audits – India
      • Harnessing Informality – East & Central Africa & Kyrgyzstan
    • GI ACE Phase 2Phase two of research (2022-now)
      • Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
      • Political Connections in Public Procurement During Crises
      • Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
      • ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
      • Money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South
      • Corruption in the Crisis Response of the Malawian Health System
      • Illicit Financial Flows and Drivers of State Capture
      • Identifying Enabler Networks and Their Vulnerabilities
      • Building Resilience to State Capture
      • Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians: The Contested Interpretation of Lawyers as Facilitators of Kleptocracy and Grand Corruption
      • Engaging the Public to Fight State Capture
      • Next Phase of GI ACE
      • Scoping New Research Themes
        • Global Finance and the Enablers of Corruption
        • Crisis Responses and Corruption in Vulnerable Sectors
        • Corruption Risks in Global Trade and Commerce
  • Rethinking Anti-Corruption
    • Working Paper Series
      • Approaches
      • Interactive Framework
  • From Research to Practice
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    • Day 3
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  • About
    • Our Programme
    • Our Team
    • Events
    • Press
    • Multimedia
  • Projects
    • GI ACE Phase 1Phase one of research (2018-2022)
      • Anti-Money Laundering & Banking/Reputation
      • International Deal-Making
      • Offshore Financial Secrecy Reform
      • Procurement & Red Flags
      • Using the Red Flags Tool to Curb Corruption in Procurement
      • Regulating Cross-border trading – East Africa
      • Social Norms & Behaviors & Health – Tanzania
      • Cities of Integrity: Zambia and South Africa
      • Beneficial Ownership – Nigeria
      • Effective Law Enforcement – Nigeria & Malawi
      • Preventing Medical Theft – Malawi
      • Advancing Integrity – Uganda
      • Integrity & Civil Servants – Nepal & Bangladesh
      • Leveraging Social Audits – India
      • Harnessing Informality – East & Central Africa & Kyrgyzstan
    • GI ACE Phase 2Phase two of research (2022-now)
      • Trading in Voluntary Carbon Markets
      • Political Connections in Public Procurement During Crises
      • Illicit Cross-Border Trade and Money Laundering from the Congo
      • ‘Windows’ of Corruption in Uganda
      • Money laundering through real estate in the touristic Global South
      • Corruption in the Crisis Response of the Malawian Health System
      • Illicit Financial Flows and Drivers of State Capture
      • Identifying Enabler Networks and Their Vulnerabilities
      • Building Resilience to State Capture
      • Gatekeepers, Enablers or Technicians: The Contested Interpretation of Lawyers as Facilitators of Kleptocracy and Grand Corruption
      • Engaging the Public to Fight State Capture
      • Next Phase of GI ACE
      • Scoping New Research Themes
        • Global Finance and the Enablers of Corruption
        • Crisis Responses and Corruption in Vulnerable Sectors
        • Corruption Risks in Global Trade and Commerce
  • Rethinking Anti-Corruption
    • Working Paper Series
      • Approaches
      • Interactive Framework
  • From Research to Practice
    • Day 1
    • Day 2
    • Day 3
  • Blog
  • Publications
  • Digital Library

GI-ACE Report Launch: Financial Secrets & Shell Companies: Evidence for Anti-Corruption Policies

By ACE GI21/06/2023Leave a comment

Join us for the launch of our most recent research report on global shell companies and offshore financial secrecy from the Global Integrity Anti-Corruption Evidence (GI-ACE) programme. The newly generated research uses big data analytics and global mapping to provide an important evidence base for anti-corruption policy-making in the future.

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

HarveyBy ACE GI19/01/2022Leave 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…

penguin with rolls of Nigerian currency

Statistical challenges and ‘cash for penguins’

Harvey, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy ACE GI20/11/20191 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.

Nigerian currency

Hiding the beneficial owner and the proceeds of corruption

Harvey, Integrity Systems, International ArchitectureBy ACE GI20/06/2019Leave 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.

Anti-money lanudering typewritten on paper on desk with spreadsheets glasses pens amount circled in red

How effective are beneficial ownership checks?

Heathershaw, International ArchitectureBy ACE GI05/06/2019Leave a comment

GI-ACE researcher John Heathershaw discusses project investigating laundering of monies and reputations by professional enablers for African and Central Asian elites.

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