Gatekeepers, enablers or technicians: The contested interpretation of lawyers as facilitators of kleptocracy and grand corruption This project investigates how solicitors in England & Wales navigate client selection when dealing…
Corruption in Paradise: An ecology of money laundering through real estate in the touristic global south This project aims to investigate how six tourism-focused cities/regions from Brazil (São Paulo City…
This project investigates the evidence of what regulatory frameworks, tools or novel instruments have been shown to be effective or ineffective at deterring the various enablers from contributing to illicit financial flows around the world.
The project explores the tools used by corrupt elites to launder their reputations and move and conceal illicit wealth across borders.
This project makes use of leaked and newly constructed datasets to understand the impact that offshore financial secrecy reforms are having on the use of shell companies for the hiding of developing country corruption proceeds.
Focussed on Nigeria, this project examines current approaches and system weakness for successfully identifying the beneficial owner, thereby, preventing the laundering of the proceeds of corruption and aiding asset recovery