As the UK votes on its future in Europe, Putin lurks in the wings while Beijing weighs the implications. A vote to leave could allow a flood of criminal money into London.
KI’s Charles Davidson, Marius Laurinavicius, Hannah Thoburn, and Tom Firestone discussed how to tackle Ukrainian kleptocracy at an event in Washington, DC yesterday. Watch the video.
Chinese graft inspectors are targeting government ministries, including the Hong Kong and Macau offices. A corruption suspect on Beijing’s most-wanted list returned voluntarily.
Chinese and Azeri firms are using football as a PR opportunity.
A mayor has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of $1 billion from three Moldovan banks in 2014.
Iran is likely to be kept on a global money laundering blacklist.
45 percent of Ukrainians say they would report corruption, up from 13 percent in November 2014.
New York regulators say that many banks fined for compliance failures are continuing their misconduct.
