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Telia: The nordic telecoms firm will pay $965 million to resolve bribery allegations involving Gulnara Karimova. (OCCRP)
Creeping influence: “Authoritarians are attacking democratic values in subtle and direct ways.” A quick guide to how they do it and what we can do about it, by Clay Fuller. (AEI)
Anonymous companies: A New York state senator is proposing legislation tounmask the true owners of Manhattan LLCs. (Real Deal)
Manafort: His past work for the “torturers’ lobby” is coming back to haunt him, writes Tom McCarthy. (Guardian)
Canada: British Columbia casinos are being investigated for money laundering after big Chinese cash bets. (Bloomberg)
Sanctions: Brexit could give the UK more flexibility, writes Mara Lemos Stein. (WSJ)
Malta: The European Commission is monitoring the island nation’s continued failure to adopt anti-money laundering rules. (Times of Malta)
Kurdistan: What are Russia and Rosneft up to in Iraq, asks Nick Trickett. (FPRI)
Azerbaijan: Anti-corruption activists marched in Baku following recent “Laundromat” revelations. (RFE/RL)
China: One of Beijing’s top 100 wanted fugitives returned from the United States. Australia introduced new rules to deal with aggressive tactics used by Chinese policepursuing fugitives there. (SCMP, Sydney Morning Herald)
Compiled by Nate Sibley.
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